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STORIES FROM GARSHIN.

the 'glory of Russia's arms,' were, for him, words with a rather ugly meaning. But when war broke out and the newspapers reported the daily slaughter of Russian soldiers upon the battlefield, and their unspeakable miseries in the camps and hospitals, Garshin felt impelled to go and share the sufferings of his people.

The admirable sketch, bearing the rather misleading title, A Coward, describes his own feelings at that period, and also gives us the moral physiognomy of those generous and devoted young Russian men and women, whose motto is: 'Everything for the People.'

A Coward was written after Garshin's return from the campaign; his first literary production, Four Days on the Battlefield, was written almost from the battlefield itself, and has for its basis an actual fact.

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