"Between Tolstoy"s two great plays," says the translator, ""The Power of Darkness" and "The Fruits of Culture," the contrast is very striking. The first is intensely moral, terrible in its earnestness and force.... Very different is "Fruits of Culture," a play brimful of laughter and merriment."
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A CLEAR AND HOPEFUL EXPOSITION OF TOLSTOY"S TEACHINGS
"Students of the master will find this little book indispensable."--_San Francisco News-Letter._
Tolstoy and His Problems
Essays by AYLMER MAUDE
Each essay in this volume expresses, in one form or other, Tolstoy"s views of life; and the main object of the book is not to praise his views, but to explain them. Being the only Englishman who in recent years has had the advantage of intimate personal intercourse, continued over a period of some years, with Tolstoy, Mr. Maude is well qualified for his present work.
CONTENTS
Biography of TolstoyIntroduction to "The Slavery Tolstoy"s Teachingsof Our Times"
An Introduction to "WhatThe Tsar"s Coronation Is Art?"Right and Wrong How "Resurrection" WasWar and Patriotism WrittenTalks With Tolstoy
"Any one who takes up this delightful series of essays will not willingly lay it down without at least the determination to finish it."--_British Friend._
"Mr. Maude"s long and intimate acquaintance with Tolstoy enables him to speak with knowledge probably not possessed by any other Englishman."--_Morning Post._
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Sevastopol
AND OTHER MILITARY TALES
By LEO TOLSTOY
A new translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude, specially approved by the author. This book relates the author"s own experiences, sensations, and reflections during the most noted siege of modern history. The translation has been authorized by Count Tolstoy, who has specially commended it for its accuracy, simplicity, and directness.
"No other modern book approaches "Sevastopol" in the completeness and directness with which it unveils the realities of war. There are picturesque glimpses in Mr. Kipling"s vulgar stories of fighting. But the strongest meat Mr.
Kipling can provide is milk for babes beside Count Tolstoy"s seemingly casual sketches, which yet comprehend with merciless amplitude the whole atmosphere of war."--_The Morning Leader_, London.
What Count Tolstoy Says of the Translators and Translation
"Better translators, both for knowledge of the two languages and for penetration into the very meaning of the matter translated, could not be invented." Of their translation of Sevastopol, Tolstoy also says: "I think I already wrote you how unusually the first volume of your edition pleases me. All in it is excellent: the edition and the remarks, and chiefly the translation, and yet more the conscientiousness with which all this has been done."
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_Three New Stories by Count Leo Tolstoy, Written for the Benefit of the Kishinef Sufferers. Publisher"s and Author"s Profits are to go to the Kishinef Relief Fund_
ESARHADDON
King of a.s.syria, and Other Stories
_By_ COUNT LEO TOLSTOY
_Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude, with an Introduction Containing Letters by Tolstoy_
=Esarhaddon, King of a.s.syria.= An allegorical story with an Oriental setting, telling how a cruel king was made to feel and understand the sufferings of one of his captives, and to repent his own cruelty.
=Work, Death, and Sickness.= A legend accredited to the South American Indians, showing the three means G.o.d took to make men more kind and brotherly toward each other.
=Three Questions.= A quaint folk-lore tale answering the three questions of life: "What is the Best Time?" "Who Are the Most Important Persons?" "What Thing Should be Done First?"
OPINION OF THE PRESS
_St. Louis Globe-Democrat_: "Count Tolstoy is a man so sure of his message and so clear about it that he always finds something worth while to say.... There is a quality in the little tales published under the t.i.tle "Esarhaddon" which is quickly suggestive of certain Biblical narratives.
There is one called "Three Questions," which contains, in half a dozen pages, an entire philosophy of life, and it is presented in such apt pictures and ideas that its meaning is not to be overlooked. It would be hard to suggest anything that could be read in five minutes that would impart so much to think about. "Esarhaddon,"
the sketch from which the volume takes its name, is of the same character, and the third tale, "Work, Death, and Sickness," is full of very fine thought. There is, perhaps, no writer working to-day whose mind is centered on broader and better things than the Russian master, and the present offering shows him at his very best."
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What Is Art?
Translated from the Original Ma.n.u.script, with an Introduction by AYLMER MAUDE
Art is a human activity, declares Tolstoy. The object of this activity is to transmit to others feelings the artist has experienced. By certain external signs--movements, lines, colors, sounds or arrangements of words--an artist infects other people so that they share his feelings; thus, "art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling." Without adequate expression there is no art, for there is no infection, no transference to others of the author"s feeling. The test of art is infection. If an author has moved you so that you feel as he felt, if you are so united to him in feeling that it seems to you that he has expressed just what you have long wished to express, the work that has so infected you is a work of art.
A POWERFUL WORK FULL OF GENIUS AND ORIGINALITY
"The powerful personality of the author, the startling originality of his views, grip the reader and carry him, though his deepest convictions be outraged, protesting through the book."--_Pall Mall Gazette._
"The discussion is bound to shake the whole world to its very center, and to result in a considerable readjustment of theories."--_Pittsburg Times._
"It is the ablest and most scholarly writing of a great thinker."--_Chicago Inter Ocean._
"No recent book on the subject is so novel, so readable, or so questionable."--_New York Times Sat.u.r.day Review._