STORM, The ((Groza)). In this tragedy, which appeared in 1860, Ostrovski has given the most vivid picture in literature of the ful consequences of domestic despotism, such as formed the foundation of the lives of the Moscow merchant class. The old widow anikha believes in the rule of terror and cannot understand her son's sentiment that his wife should not live in fear of him. Catherine, his wife, who is the heroine of the play, has by the critic Dobrolyubov been denominated <(a ray of light in a world of darkness' She is one of the most touching characters in any ture. Warmhearted, profoundly religious, her nature is chilled in her home surroundings by the hostility of her stern mother-in-law and the indifference of her profligate husband. She begs him not to go on a journey, not to rob her of her soul's peace. During his absence she is easily captivated by the urbane Boris, and she falls. Upon her husband's premature turn a raging storm evokes in her mingled ings of superstition and remorse, and she fesses to her husband. When she hears that Boris is forced to leave for a long journey she, in a sense comparable to the finest scenes in Goethe's 'Faust,' bids him good-bye and then commits suicide by leaping into the river.
The positive characters in the play are erine's family, among whom she had been brought up in love, and the autodidact Kuligin, who gives expression to Ostrovski's humane sentiments in some such way as did the chorus in the ancient Greek tragedy.- In Russia this drama has maintained itself on the repertoire until the present time, but it has not met with success abroad, on account of the great tivity of the characters and the absence of climaxes and melodramatic situations. It is to be found in an English translation by stance Garnett (London 1899 and Boston 1907). LEO WIENER. STORM KING, or BUTTER HILL (called by the early Dutch The Klinkenberg, which means Mount)), one of the highest peaks of the Highlands on the west bank of the Hudson, in Orange County, N. Y. It was also called Boterberg (Butter Moun tain) by the Dutch. It is a rounded mass (1,530 feet high), made more conspicuous by being on the river's bank. The village of Corn wall is near by. The peak stands like a °storm king* at the northern (Gate of the Highlands,* as a protection against the fierce storms of the north.