Show STORIES OF TOLSTOY Chicago News i Count Tolstoy was once recuperating from a sickness by resting in the th Cri Crimea CrImea mea A party of rich Americans ar arrIved arrived rIved ived In a yacht and asked permission to see the great Russian Tolstoy sat upon his balcony like a Buddhist Idol dol as he said and the Americans lied flIed silently and slowly before him They hey had promised not to speak a n word worda a glimpse was all aU they wanted One woman however refused to be bound by the contract contact Leo Tolstoy she exclaimed all your writings have had hada a profound Influence on my life but the theone theone theone one which has taught me the most is your Here Her she awkwardly forgot the he name of ot the work The sick author leaned over the rail ran of ot the balcony and whispered with a smile The Dead Souls Yes yes she replied That book said Tolstoy was written by GOgO Gogol not by b me domestic life is singularly happy in spite of ot the tact fact that his wife does not share shara his views concerning re and sociology The countess is sixteen years younger than her hus band and and although the mother of ot thir thirteen thirteen thirteen teen children is still beautiful and charming She is highly gifted too has herself written three novels At Atone Atone Atone one time she had great difficulty in pre preventing preventing preventing venting the count from giving away all his property He wished to distribute all his worldly goods to the poor she says It was I I alone who prevented it t Heavens what a struggle I had But God be praised I triumphed From that day to this I Y and I alone man manage age the counts affairs everything is done by b me meIs is in my own hands Tolstoy is la one of the most prolific writers of any age He has published some hundred and twenty books and Innumerable pamphlets most of or which have been translated Into every Euro European European European language The extent of his out output output put Nit is the more remarkable when his laborIous methods are considered Some SomA of his chapters have been written a dozen times and the pages of his man manuscript manuscript manuscript are disfigured by numerous erasures and Interpolations One of ot his novels had to be copied out seven time before a fairly legible manuscript could be sent to the printers |