vant-class has awakened within her the desire for better things through her association with her master, a weak-willed bachelor who has deserted the gay life of the cities and come to his estate in the provinces to live. When the consciousness of her individuality comes, Anna Timofeevna, the woman, leaves the estate and her two children, and goes to Moscow to study. She wishes to get the diploma of doctor's assistant. She spends two years at Moscow, and when she returns with her diploma, eager, feeling that she is now a fit companion for her "man," and a fit mother for her children, she finds that her place has been taken by a common servant. The colorless life on the farm in Little Russia has transformed the man, never very intellectual or ambitious, into a dull clod, seeking nothing but the satisfaction of his lower desires. She was no longer wanted. She had become his superior in mind and instincts. But the woman's former ideal of the man, the thing that had given her the moral strength to bear the two lonely years in Moscow and that had awakened her to a knowledge of herself, will give her the power to rise above this bitter disappointment.
The Whirlwind deals with another phase of the woman's question, and unfolds the peculiar relations that the members of two families hold to each other. The volume holds two interesting tales by a Russian writer only one of whose works has hitherto appeared in English garb.
IVAN PETROVICH PAVLOV.
The April number of the Medical Review of Reviews contains an extremely interesting article by the editor of the Review, Dr. Victor Robinson, on the late Russian physiologist, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. Before discussing the work of Pavlov, Dr. Robinson gives the following survey of Russia's gallery of scientists, whose work has been invaluable in the advancement of the world's scientific thought:
On the annals of science are written many other glorious Russian names: Von Baer, the greatest name in modern embryology; Metcnnikoff, immortal for his discoveries in phagocytosis; Korsakoff, who described the psychosis of alcoholic polyneuritis; Cyon, after whom is named Cyon's nerve; Minin, whose ultraviolet therapy is known as the Minin light; Stanislav Stein, whose test for disease of the labyrinth is known as Stein's test; Schachowa, who described the histologic canals known as the spiral tubules of Schachowa; Wreden, who first called attention to the fact that there is gelatinous matter in the auditory meatus of stillborn children; Kovalevsky, who described the passage from the medullary tube into the archenteron; Leshaft, after whom is named Leshaft's space; Nikolai Eck, of fistula fame, whose method of abolishing the portal circulation gave physiologists the opportunity to learn the relation of the liver to metabolism; Kupressoff, who described the spinal center of the vesical sphincter; Bobroff, whose osteoplastic operation for spina bifida is known as Bobroff's operation; Koshevnikoff, whose description of a mild type of epilepsy is known as Koshevnikof's disease; Darkshevitch, the neurologist after whom is named Darkshevitch's nucleus; Botkin, the eminent clinician; Struve, whose test for blood in the urine is known as Struve's test; Bechterev, after whom is named the nucleus which gives origin to the fibres of the median roots of the auditory nerve; Cherchevsky, whose description of ileus of nervous origin is known as Cherchevsky's disease; Gamaleia, the bacteriologist; Minkovsky who described congenital acholuric jaundice with splenomegaly and urobilinuria; Mendeleyeff, whose periodic law is one of the fundamentals of modern chemistry; Waldemar Kernig, whose test is tried whenever meningitis is suspected; Poehl, who described the test for detecting cholera bacilli; Nikolsky, after whom is named
