Show I 1 x J WILL ISSUE A WORK ON disarmament now how clont tula aad bastea A am K zatter aa a tho great author and ad Bf araz B la is try cufal special utter letter much anch interest attaches to the personality SO sona lity of count leo lea tolstoi lust just at this moment and for the reason that he h Is in on an the point of completing a book which will contain his full views on the vital question of disarmament nent the counts study at jaskala is plainly furnished conta containing inin little except a plain deal table and an ordinary bench on which the master of the house houg sits while he la is composing his big famous books in one corner of the th room is a reaping hook and in another are am some iron iran rings which were formerly used for the purpose of fastening the wrists of at criminals but which now serve for gymnastic exercises in which the count indulges whenever he be feels weary of literary work vork in this room be works or rather I 1 I 1 1 e 1 i i 1 I 1 I 1 A 4 I 1 I 1 N X alz 1 7 I 1 4 e I 1 1 41 1 COUNT composes from 9 in the morning arn until 3 in the afternoon and dar during these thesa hours he will not permit himself to be disturbed under any pretext he uses the first pen and sheet of paper that comes to hand no matter what the quality may be and he writes very rapidly about twenty pages of manuscript being an ave average rage days work these twenty pages are then copied by some wend friend or by the counts count wife and daughters after which they are placed on his study table there the count finds them on the following day and he then thoroughly revues revises them adding a son sentence here excising a phrase there and otherwise shaping the work to his satisfaction this ione done a fresh copy is made according to enko tolstoi Is so BO careful over his manuscript not because he desires to make it as an perfect as possible in regard to form and language but because he finds that new ideas come to him after WS his int first rough ranh draft has been made and he feels bound to embody them in his completed manuscript in other words with tolstoi the idea is ev everything ery thIng and style or form nothing bothin or next to nothing indeed he complains that the manual task of writing is detrimental to sincerity of thought and ez ex preshion pres prex aion Alon and that this is the reason why his bis first drafts are as a rule so unsatisfactory his days work done he loves to read aloud to a circe of friends after he had written the me power of darkness he read it to some of his neighbors and derived much profit from their criticisms and comments his ella severest critics is his wae w fe she expresses express her opinion freely and as she is a woman of unusual intelligence to stol values it highly the authors famous ro romance manre war and peace says enko was at first intended to be an introduction to another work of fiction which was to be called I rhe the Decem brista ultimately however tolstoi decided not to write this latter work as the topic did not see seem to him to be of sufficient human interest on the other hard the events of IMS 1805 and the campaign of aw seemed to him of absorbing interest and he spent live five years in writing the romance which is based on them by the way the manuscript of war and peace lay for a long ume neglected in a drawer until finally anal count tolstoi found it and deposited it in the moscow museum A romance with peter thu the great as the hero was also planned by tolstoi but after a thorough u study of his ufa life and epoch he found that tha the subject was not congenial peter the great seemed deemed to him an admirable character in many waya but he could not wholly sympathize with him or his plans and his fine literary judgment told hus him that he could not fittingly portray the character with whom he was sot not wholly in sympathy the idea of writing anna kare nine came to tolstoi during daring a certain evening in IM 1873 as he was ustena enns to a story in which was being behm read aloud by his wn eon tte story was a simple one and tolstoi especially admired the opening sentences for their simplicity and that Is the way one walto writer ter lie remarked you must attract the readers attention at once if you yo q wish to 10 retain lt to which some members ot of Us tamely replied tt would be anfor well tor set chwi the example pie himself 9 aaby by wr writing oaut ada i ipie fie modem ro ilance lold that evening latae thiv alb r I 1 I 1 iw AJ rAdi chapter abter abt orasia im axas 41 0 s l fy 2 S 1 in 1 K g A li 1 am 1 1 vas those I 1 an who have read tum W tas ca story know wen how BOIT closely he d hered to the simple easy tylo walca ha h so go much admired in 10 r asee the ite death of IT iran nuch and abd ta me of darkeners Darl mesa are both based an a incidents to in real life in regard to the kreutzer sonata enko tells a curious story one me evening some friends ri ends including repin tle the painter and andrew tse celebrated comedian assembled at tol tai home and during a 2 lun lull in tb the couT conversation etlou a lady began to play the weird sonata which furnished tolstoi with the title for his tam famous OW boo boot k As she played tolstoi was strangely angely moved and the d chords choda had hardly med died away when he turned to and said now here is an excellent theme tor for both of us to handle you yon with your brush and I 1 with my pen and when my work is finished we will get our friend burlak here to read it and then we will put it on the stam stage and you can paint the scenery tor for it IL nothing more was said at the time but tolstoi certainly did not forget the incident for not many months elapses before the world was startled by the publication a of f the kreutzer sonata |