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in the procession; afterwards they came thicker and thicker till
they were a great moving wall. He tells how they camped in the
forests, how they died by the way, how they put up their crosses
by the side of the road, how they sold their horses and
abandoned their carts, how they starved, how they suffered. The
words speak for themselves.  Doroshevitch is chiefly famous for
his work on Sakhalin, but he is a very popular modern writer,
and very powerful, using an ironic pen. He writes constantly on
the Russkoe Slovo, and is a great favourite. Russians buy this
interesting paper even for him alone, and read his articles and
feuilletons aloud. He has an extraordinary journalistic style,
all short sentences, short paragraphs, word-paragraphs, dashes,
marks of interrogation. Our own writers should find him
interesting. Scores