the conditions of the work and the short lived character of the majority of the Russian circles (and only those who have experienced this can have any exact idea of it), in order to understand how much there was accidental in the successes and failures of the new tendency in various towns, and why for a long time neither the advocates nor the opponents of this 'new' tendency could make up their minds indeed they had no opportunity to do so as to whether this was really a new tendency or whether it was merely an expression of the lack of training of certain individuals.