A Little Journey in the World

novel by Nikolai Gogol--"Dead Souls"--though the motive has nothing in common with that used by the Russian novelist. Gogol exposed a

influences in our existing social life. In no other way could certain phases of our society

n (among others less marked) who had begun life with the highest ideals, which had been gradually eaten a

e not lost, the observances of the duties of charities and of religion were even emphasized, but worldliness had eaten the heart out of them,

n receipt of the usual letters of sympathy, or protest, and advice. One sympathetic missive urged the removal of Margaret to a neighboring city, where she could be sa

those I meet in every-day life, and in this case I found it utterly impossible to go on to what might have been the bitter, logical development of Margaret's career. Perhaps it was as well. Pe

DUDLEY

, August