Vsevolod Garshin

“ This play is based upon one of the legends of the fiddlers who used to go about from valley to valley, playing for the peasants at their festivities.
Enthralled by the power of the fiddler, we are drawn up the mountains. We breathe the rarefied atmosphere of the highest peaks, and feel the strange, penetrating light of the midsummer night, the light which is neither of day nor night, but seems to come from another world "and force itself beyond our heavy eyelids!" It is the moment when the "great red sun of night stands still, while mortals dream!" ”

“ A grim and powerful study by that marvelous Russian, Leonidas Andreiyeff.—The Smart Set.
Leonidas Andreiyeflf is a writer who bites deep into life. In him Slavic talent for introspection is remarkably developed. Poetic, powerfully imaginative, master of stark simplicity, he has written stories stamped with the seal of genius. ”

“ It is worth while to have all of the plays of such a great dramatist in our English tongue. Since the death of Ibsen he is the chief of the Scandinavians. . . The publishers deserve thanks and support for their enterprise. There has long existed a need for just such an edition of contemporary foreign plays. . . ."— THE SUN, Baltimore.
" An idyllic play, filled with romantic machinery of the Northern fairy tales and legends, ... It belongs to a class by itself. ”