Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude, with an Introduction
Containing Letters by Tolstoy Esarhaddon, King of Assyria. An allegorical story with an Oriental setting, telling how a cruel king was made to feel and understand the sufferings of one of his captives, and to repent his own cruelty. Work, Death, and Sickness. A legend accredited to the South American Indians, showing the three means God took to make men more kind and brotherly toward each other. Three Questions. A quaint folk-lore tale answering the three questions of life: "What is the Best Time?" "Who Are the Most Important Persons?" "What Thing Should be Done First?" OPINION OF THE PRESS St. Louis Globe-Democrat: "Count Tolstoy is a man so sure of his message and so clear about it that he always finds something worth while to say.... There is a quality in the little tales published under the title 'Esarhaddon' which is quickly suggestive of certain Biblical narratives. There is one called 'Three Questions,' which contains, in half a dozen pages, an entire philosophy of life, and it is presented in such apt pictures and ideas that its meaning is not to be overlooked. It would be hard to suggest anything that could be read in five minutes that would impart so much to think about. 'Esarhaddon,' the sketch from which the volume takes its name, is of the same character, and the third tale, 'Work, Death, and Sickness,' is full of very fine thought. There is, perhaps, no writer working to-day whose mind is centered on broader and better things than the Russian master, and the present offering shows him at his very best." "Hour-Glass Stories." Dainty 12mo, Cloth, Frontispiece,
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NEW YORK and LONDON What Is Art? Translated from the Original Manuscript, with
an Introduction by AYLMER MAUDE Art is a human activity, declares Tolstoy. The object of this activity is to transmit to others feelings the artist has experienced. By certain external signs—movements, lines, colors, sounds or arrangements of words—an artist infects other people so that they share his feelings; thus, "art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling." Without adequate expression there is no art, for there is no infection, no transference to others of the author's feeling. The test of art is infection. If an author has moved you so that you feel as he felt, if you are so united to him in feeling that it seems to you that he has expressed just what you have long wished to express, the work that has so infected you is a work of art. A POWERFUL WORK FULL OF
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NEW YORK and LONDON Transcriber's Notes Page 7: Double quotes inside double quotes in Hallam quotation replaced with single quotes. Page 9: Closing quotes moved from after "says Brandes" to follow "... at the sight." Page 20: strangset amended to strangest Page 56: insteading amended to instead Page 72: be amended to he ("he begins") Page 80: "... the then fashionable euphemism": There is a possibility that "euphuism" should have been used, rather than "euphemism." Page 96: Closing quotes added after "... an artistic impression." Page 102: Beaudelaire sic Page 165: Mirander amended to Miranda |
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