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Show j Tolstoi and the Americans. Count Tolstoi is lamenting the growth of vicious tendencies in society and inbred in-bred sin in all countries. He was asked by an interviewer the other day what people become the most abnormal in this respect. Me replied: "At any rate, not the Americans. To their credit must be put the immense national na-tional self love, which cannot exist in an abnormal people. I one day wrote an article on America and the Americans, in which I did not particularly overload the latter with flattery. Nevertheless 1 sent the manuscript over the ocean, thinking it would be accepted by any paper as eagerly as my other productions. produc-tions. Not a bit of it. The translator took it to 14 editors without getting it accepted, and finally it had to be sent to England." ' |
