ABSTRACT

From an essay called Thoughts on Chekhov, an amalgam of reviews of ‘The Bishop and Other Stories’, translated by Constance Garnett and published in 1919, and the Garnett translation of Chekhov's letters. The essay appears in ‘Aspects of Literature’ (W. Collins Ltd).

204J.M.Murry (1889-1957), husband of Katherine Mansfield and a periodic friend of D.H. Lawrence, was the last editor of the ‘Athenaeum’ and founded the ‘Adelphi’ in 1923. See also No. 87.