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Show T5olstoi's Methods. Notwithstanding his recent serious Illness, a French visitor to Yasnaia Poliana affirms that Count Tolstoi is as active in mind and body as ever. A short time ago he was up at 7 in the morning, making a tour of his park, and with a large white linen hat on his head walked briskly along. Returning Return-ing to the house, he set steadily to work at his desk for some hours and, although since his last illness he dines alone, he joins the family at the midday repast His manuscripts are badly written and marked all over by additions and erasures, so that each sheet has to be copied. He has many willing secretaries, including Nicholas Gay, the son of the painter, who undertake un-dertake this work in the afternoon and carefully transcribe tha writing of the mornink ' |