Chapter I: Front Matter

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A LIST OF BOOKS
ON
RUSSIA AND SIBERIA

Published by ...

T. FISHER UNWIN

11 Paternoster Buildings, London, E.C.

HISTORY, DESCRIPTION, ETC.

=Travels of a Naturalist in Northern Europe.= By J. A. HARVIE-BROWN, F.R.S.E., F.Z.S., Author of "Fauna of the Moray Basin," "A Vertebrate Fauna of Orkney," etc., etc. With 4 Maps and many Illustrations. 2 vols. Royal 8vo, cloth. £3, 3s. net.

Limited Edition. Uniform with "Fauna of the Moray Basin."

=Siberia: A Record of Travel, Exploration, and Climbing.= By SAMUEL TURNER. With 100 Illustrations and 2 Maps. Demy 8vo, cloth. 21s. net.

=Russia Under the Great Shadow.= By LUIGI VILLARI, Author of "Giovanni Segantini," "Italian Life in Town and Country," etc. With 85 Illustrations. Second Impression. Demy 8vo, cloth. 10s. 6d. net.

=Tourgueneff and his French Circle.= Edited by H. HALPÉRINE-KAMINSKY. Translated by ETHEL M. ARNOLD. Cr. 8vo, cloth. 7s. 6d.

=The Peoples and Politics of the Far East.= Travels and Studies in the British, French, Spanish, and Portuguese Colonies, Siberia, China, Japan, Korea, Siam, and Malaya. By HENRY NORMAN, B.A., M.P. With many Illustrations. Sixth Impression. Small demy 8vo, cloth. 7s. 6d.

=Poland.= By W. R. MORFILL, M.A., Professor of Russian and Slavonic Languages in the University of Oxford. Third Impression. With 50 Illustrations and Maps. (Story of the Nations. Vol. 33.) Large cr. 8vo, cloth. 5s.

=Russia.= By W. R. MORFILL, M.A. Fourth Edition. With 60 Illustrations and Maps. (Story of the Nations. Vol. 23.) Large cr. 8vo, cloth. 5s.

War Edition. Brought up to date and with Supplementary Chapters on the Present Situation, and Large War Map. Cloth. 5s.

=The Memoirs and Travels of Count de Benyowsky= in Siberia, Kamtschatka, Japan, the Liukiu Islands, and Formosa. Edited by Captain S. P. OLIVER, R.A. Illustrated. Cr. 8vo, cloth. 3s. 6d.

=The Grand Duchy of Finland.= By the author of "A Visit to the Russians." Cr. 8vo, cloth, with Map, 2s. 6d. net.

FICTION

=Three Dukes.= A Novel of Russian Life. By G. YSTRIDDE. (Unwin's Red Cloth Library.) Cr. 8vo, cloth. 6s.

=The Watcher on the Tower.= A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Russia. By A. G. HALES. (Unwin's Red Cloth Library.) Cr. 8vo, cloth. 6s.

=Finnish Legends.= Adapted by R. EIVIND. Illustrated from the Finnish text. (Children's Library). Fcap. 8vo, cloth 2s. 6d.

IN THE PSEUDONYM LIBRARY
Cloth, 2s.; Paper, 1s. 6d.

=Mademoiselle Ixe.= By LANOE FALCONER.

=Makar's Dream, and other Russian Stories.= By V. KOROLENKO.

=A Saghalien Convict.= By V. KOROLENKO.

=Squire Hellman.= By JUHANI AHO.

=A Russian Priest.= By J. POTAPENKO.

=The General's Daughter.= By J. POTAPENKO.

=A Father of Six.= By J. POTAPENKO.

BY MAXIM GORKY
Crown 8vo, cloth, 1s. net.

=Foma Gordyeeff.= Unabridged.

=The Outcasts, and Other Stories.=

=Three of Them.=

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=The Red Laugh.= By LEONIDAS ANDREIEF. Paper cover, 1s. net.

=The China Cup, and Other Stories.= By FELIX VOLKHOVSKY. Illustrated by Malischeff. (Children's Library). Illustrated. Fcap. 8vo, decorated binding, 1s.

LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN.

NOVELS BY MAXIM GORKY

_Bound in cloth, 1s. net. each_

THREE OF THEM (22nd Thousand)
THE OUTCASTS (10th Thousand)
THE MAN WHO WAS AFRAID (15th Thousand)

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THREE DUKES. A Novel of the Russian Upper Classes of To-Day. By G.
YSTRIDDE. Second Edition, 6s.

T. FISHER UNWIN, LONDON

THE RED LAUGH

_FRAGMENTS OF A DISCOVERED MANUSCRIPT_

BY

LEONIDAS ANDREIEF

_Translated from the Russian by_ ALEXANDRA LINDEN

LONDON
T. FISHER UNWIN
PATERNOSTER SQUARE

1905

_Protected under the Berne Convention in accordance with Article III. as modified by the Paris additional Act of May 4, 1896._