Ralph E. Matlaw was Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Chicago. He was the author of "The Brothers Karamazov": Novelistic Technique and translated and edited Dostoevsky s Notes from Underground and The Grand Inquisitor, Odoevsky s Russian Nights, and Grigoryev s Moral and Literary Wanderings. He also edited Tolstoy: A Collection of Critical Essays; Belinsky, Chernyshevsky, and Dobrolyubov: Selected Criticism; and the Norton Critical Editions of Turgenev s Fathers and Sons and Anton Chekhov s Short Stories.