Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Formulaic Style and the Russian Bylina -- Griboedov as a Diplomat -- The Life of Lady Morozova as Literature -- Leskov's Trip Abroad in 1875 -- The Comic Element in War and Peace -- Tatiana's Dream in Puskin's Evgenij Onegin -- The Analogical Spread of Russian /o/ and /e/ -- The Polish Napoleonic Cult from Mickiewicz to ?eromski: A Rapid Survey -- Dostoevskij the Humorist: 1846-1849 -- Byron's Don Juan and Puskin's Evgenij Onegin: The Question of Parallelism -- The Structure of Njegos's Decasyllabic Verse Compared with the Decasyllabic Verse in Epic Folk Poetry -- Cervantes' "Gypsy Maid" and Puškin's "The Gypsies" -- The Paradoxes of Rej's Biography -- Sienkiewicz versus Kraszewski: Observations on Novel-Writing -- The 1073 Izbornik: The Manuscript and its Sources