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assistant, in directions which are not political, is the poet
P. Weinberg, the well known translator of Heine.
Since the publisher is of Jewish extraction, this paper
is continually taxed with serving the interests of the
Jews. It is sober, serious, earnest, supports the cause
of European culture, but is not on that account the less
patriotic in its attitude toward England and Germany.
With this paper the Novoye Vreviya (the New Times)
lives in constant controversy. It is a well written
journal, but entirely without principle, edited after the
pattern of the French Figaro (especially as this
newspaper was edited in earlier times), by Suvórin, a literary
man of business, who in his day made himself renowned
in Russia by his open declaration that the time had
now come when literature ought to step down from its
pedestal, and understand that it is a commodity like
other wares, subject to the same laws of supply and
demand as everything else, and that there is no disgrace
in it. In obedience to this view, Novoye Vremya drifts
with the wind; in the shortest time possible attacks and
defends the same cause and the same person, generally
in incisive, entertaining articles. The newspaper is
more read than respected. It is known that it is
without faith and law (sans foi ni loi). From its nature it
cannot occupy a leading position, and its political
influence is absolutely nil.
Since Suvórin, besides his newspaper, has a great
publishing house in Moscow, his literary influence is
necessarily not unimportant. Many young liberal authors, for
the sake of the honorarium, exhibit the weakness of
putting their articles or novels into his widely circulated
sheet, however little they may sympathize with its
standpoint. Suvórin spares no expense in advertising;
and, as he has agents in all the large cities, Europe is
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