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Show , I Gorky Takes a Hand I jyORU than once the might of the pen has preceded the might of the sword in Russia. Again the pen has moved In Russia and no man, least of all one-who is not Russian, can forecast the result Count Leo Tolatoy won the confidence of the Russian peasantry. Me wore their smock, talked their language and was "one of them." His religious doctrine of nonresistance to evil, wrapped as he shrewdly wrapped it, .n subtle mysticism, brought thousands of converts. Now comes Maxim Gorky. Gorky is t novel Mt. His word is respected in Russia. The peasants peas-ants believe him. He has written "Reminiscences of Tolstoy," with wham he was Intimate for many years. His tale bears, the mark of truth. He declares in almost as many words that Tolstoy was an intellectual faker. He says almost bluntly that the couht had no faith In what he preached. What Til the Russian pc-ir.t do? His faith in Russianot the established government but in Russia herself -has been sadly shaken by the revolution tnd revolt. What wil come now when faith in the great Tolstoy is shaken, too? Turgeneiffs "Fathers and Sons" laid the groundwork for the first revolution. It was Andreyev's An-dreyev's "Red Laugh" that broke the backbon? of the Russian army in the war with Japan. What will Gorky's revelation of Tolstoy do In Russia? |