The book of the famous and brilliant philologist and literary critic B.M. Eichenbaum includes two of his forgotten works. "My Temporary" is a book published in 1929 on the model of the author's magazine and included both critical and literary works, as well as autobiographical and memoirs (the latter tells about the author's pedigree, his childhood, contains memories of St. Petersburg University of the 20s). "The Route to Immortality" (1933) is a witty and fascinating biography of the famous dictionary compiler and graphomaniac writer of the second half of the 19th century N.P. Makarov. In the book offered to readers, the outstanding scientist B. Eichenbaum appears as both a talented prose writer and a poet.