| Show TOLSTOI DECLINES HONOR OF CELEBRATION St HI Petersburg April G Sunday Although In deference to the wishes of fount Tolstoi tho ho plans for Cor an nil inter international national celebration ut mit Polya 1 na tin III this summer of the Iho writers eightieth birthday to 10 which whelm delegations front from and abroad lund had been hinc hil v been abandoned admirers of the thu novelist propose to Ills hIB jubilee by b the formation of an aim In 1 Tolstoi society to the Goethe Dante and und Shakespearean designed to tim study und nod pro 1110 the tho ideas of or Tolstoi to collect et materials concerning con his hla life lite and Ind ac act acI t I and ultimately to purchase tho Limo nnnie at tIt for tal a n Tel Tol I solon museum Celebrations of tho thoI I will bo be held In St lairs burg Moscow stud and other othel cities reasons for t r declining the time nor are aro given In a 11 letter to in lum he writes I address myself 11 to you ou with a very vary o request namely to slop the ito Plan of 01 a ml jUbilee which will GIr me mat nothing but and Is Worse the consciousness of evil doIng dolne 1 You mi know that i at my age when hen helm I 1 am nm no Sn hear death nothing Is la immure precious limit than time the love of or my follow men and I 1 teat feat lest IC t tills this lit itt r lIol suffer Stiffer from coin this jubilee I 1 ro ia elvell yesterday It a letter otter In which It was said all members OC or tile the ortho dox church front from which Tolstoi ns liS Is was ho Ito by this title celebration I 1 had Imd never though of It In that light I 1111 t but what woe Will written Is correct Not ot only among the orthodox but also many othor tIme tho celebration of my m ju Jo bilee would provoke evil feelings Those ThoI who Iio love loe me inc n j 1 know knots thom them and tutu they Know lenow me Imme need no outward forms to express their affection There Therefore Therefore fore COIO ilu do tb what t you can call to Prevent this celebration stud And free frIo me from this sor stir sorrow row I T ever eI r be bo thankful Count Tolstoi hup It Jl Is 15 said written a IL new lieI novel which will only bs bo pub after his death ileath It 11 Is III i entitled Father 1 Sergius It 11 hns hos as aA Its Us hero a II ayoung young youn who retires r from the world and ind becomes n IL monk on learning of oC tho the of a young girl with whom he hue him hutS fallen In love lovelie 10 He lie becomes famous for tOI sanctity but hut is lit to repeated worldly temptations finally filially yields to a St tempest of or sell Hen MUll sual passion and litter after killing tho time vie vic victim tim Um of or his hIli lust leaves leaven the Iho monastery to become a tt wanderer upon the earth |
