CHAPTER VIII: POLITICAL LITERATURE; SATIRE;

ART-CRITICISM; CONTEMPORARY NOVELISTS 263

POLITICAL LITERATURE--Difficulties of censorship--The circles: Westerners and Slavophiles--Political literature abroad: Herzen--Ogaryóff--Bakunin--Lavróff--Stepniak--_The Contemporary_ and Tchernyshévskiy--SATIRE: Schedrin (Saltykoff)--ART-CRITICISM--Its importance in Russia--Byelinskiy--Dobrolúboff--Písareff--Mihailóvskiy-- Tolstóy’s _What is Art?_--CONTEMPORARY NOVELISTS: Oertel--Korolenko--Present drift of literature--Merezhovskiy-- Boborykin--Potápenko--Tchehoff.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 319

INDEX 321