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ESSAYS ON RUSSIAN NOVELISTS by William Lyon Phelps New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911. I RUSSIAN NATIONAL CHARACTER AS SHOWN IN RUSSIAN FICTION THE Japanese war pricked one of the biggest bubbles in history, and left Russia in a profoundly humiliating situation. Her navy was practically destroyed, her armies soundly beaten, her offensive power temporarily reduced to zero, her treasury exhausted, her pride laid in the dust. If the greatness of a nation consisted in the nu