The queen of spades, by A. S. Pushkin.--The cloack, by N.V. Gogol.--Korney Vasiliev, by Leo N. Tolstoy.--The murmuring forest, by V. Korolenko.--The kiss, by Anton Chekov.--Faust, by E. Chirikov.--A grand slam, by Leonid Andreyev.--The swamp, by A. Kuprin. In the steppes, by Maxim Gorky.--The white mother, by Theodor Sologub.