ANATHEMA. Andreyev's five-act drama
to him for cure; those that have lost loved ones demand a miracle of him. He tries to es cape; they follow him into the wilderness, and, when they find he can do nothing for them, they stone him to death. Anathema exults and again appears before the dread guardian of the Beyond to boast of his victory, but is told that °David has attained immortality, and lives forever in the deathlessness of light which is life.° Anathema refuses to believe such a tale andgoes away, still blaspheming the name of Truth. There is nothing of Faust in David Leizer. He is unchanged by his new riches. Anathema is a cringing Mephistopheles who leads his victim on to apparent destruction by seeming to meet all his benevolent desires. •The purely realistic scenes of the work are full of humor and pathos. These passages are prac ticable on the stage, but as a whole it is rather a closet-drama than one adapted for the mod ern stage. It was translated into English by Herman Bernstein and published in New York in 1910.