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# War and Peace (Tolstoy)/Book 15/Chapter 20

​CHAPTER XX
After Pierre's departure that first evening, when Natásha had said to Princess Mary with a gaily mocking smile: “He looks just, yes, just as if he had come out of a Russian bath—in a short coat and with his hair cropped,” something hidden and unknown to herself, but irrepressible, awoke in Natásha's soul.
Everything: her face, walk, look, and voice, was suddenly altered. To her own surprise a power of life and hope of happiness rose to the surface and demanded satisfaction. From that evening she seemed to have forgotten all that had happened to her. She no longer complained of her position, did not say a word about the past, and no longer feared to make happy plans for the future. She spoke little of Pierre, but when Princess Mary mentioned him a long-extinguished light once more kindled in her eyes and her lips curved with a strange smile.
The change that took place in Natásha at first surprised Princess Mary; but when she understood its meaning it grieved her. “Can she have loved my brother so little as to be able to forget him so soon?” she thought when she reflected on the change. But when she was with Natásha she was not vexed with her and did not reproach her. The reawakened power of life that had seized Natásha was so evidently irrepressible and unexpected by her that in her presence Princess Mary felt that she had no right to reproach her even in her heart.
Natásha gave herself up so fully and frankly to this new feeling that she did not try to hide the fact that she was no longer sad, but bright and cheerful.
When Princess Mary returned to her room after her nocturnal talk with Pierre, Natásha met her on the threshold.
“He has spoken? Yes? He has spoken?” she repeated.
And a joyful yet pathetic expression which seemed to beg forgiveness for her joy settled on Natásha's face.
“I wanted to listen at the door, but I knew you would tell me.”
Understandable and touching as the look with which Natásha gazed at her seemed to Princess Mary. and sorry as she was to see her agitation, these words pained her for a moment. She remembered her brother and his love.
“But what's to be done? She can't help it,” thought the princess.
And with a sad and rather stern look she told Natásha all that Pierre had said. On hearing that he was going to Petersburg Natásha was astounded.
“To Petersburg!” she repeated as if unable to understand.
But noticing the grieved expression on Princess Mary's face she guessed the reason of that sadness and suddenly began to cry.
“Mary,” said she, “tell me what I should do! I am afraid of being bad. Whatever you tell me, I will do. Tell me. . .”
“You love him?”
“Yes,” whispered Natásha.
“Then why are you crying? I am happy for your sake,” said Princess Mary, who because of those tears quite forgave Natásha's joy.
​“It won't be just yet—someday. Think what fun it will be when I am his wife and you marry Nicholas!”
“Natásha, I have asked you not to speak of that. Let us talk about you.”
They were silent awhile.
“But why go to Petersburg?” Natásha suddenly asked, and hastily replied to her own question. “But no, no, he must. . . Yes, Mary, He must. . .”
# Who's Who in the Far East/INOUYE, Count Kaoru

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​ INOUYE, Count Kaoru (TOKYO), G.C.M.G.; Elder Statesman; b. 1835. Fought with the Imperialists in war preceding Restoration; secretly visited England with Marquis Ito, 1864; after Restoration appointed Vice-Minister of Finance; despatched to Corea as Vice-Plenipotentiary to negotiate in regard to attack by Corean ships on Japanese vessel, 1876; has occupied portfolios of Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Finance and Agriculture and Commerce; was for short period acting Prime Minister; after Chino-Japanese war was appointed Minister to Corea and Advisor to Corean Court; created Count, 1884: created G.C.M.G. in connection with Garter Mission entrusted to Prince Arthur of Connaught, May, 1906. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/IRISAWA, Tatsukichi

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​ IRISAWA, Tatsukichi (TOKYO), Dr. of Medicine; b. at Echigo. Educ.: Berlin University. Professor of Tokyo University, since 1895; Physician -in -Ordinary to Court. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/ISHIGURO, Baron Tadama

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​ ISHIGURO, Baron Tadama (TOKYO), ex-Surgeon-General; b. Feb. 11, 1845, at Echigo. Chief Surgeon of Osaka Military Hospital during Kagoshima Civil War, 1877; promoted to Surgeon-Colonel, 1878; Surgeon-General, 1890; cr. Baron, 1895; resigned from army, 1896; since then has devoted himself to Bed Cross Work; represented the Red Cross Society at the international convention held in Germany, 1890; nominated Member of House of Peers, 1902. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/IRVING, Edward Alexander

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​ IRVING, Edward Alexander (HONGKONG); Inspector of Schools; b. 1870. Transferred to Hongkong Civil Service from the Civil Service of the Federated Malay States in 1901. Address:"Kinta," the Peak, Hongkong.
# Who's Who in the Far East/INOUYE, Kakugoro

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​ INOUYE, Kakugoro (TOKVO), M.P.: b. Fnknyama, Oct., 1859. Started paper at Seoul and appointed adviser to Corean Government, 1884; behaved with great gallantry when, that year, Japanese Legation was attacked by Corean mob; has represented Hiroshima-ken in the Lower House; since 1890; Managing Director of Hokkaido Coal and Railway Co.; Vice-President of Tokyo Chamber of Commerce. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/ISHIGURO, Isoji

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​ ISHIGURO, Isoji (TOKYO), Dr. of Engineering; b. Kanazawa, June, 1855. Educ.: England, 1879-1883. Appointed Engineer of Navy, 1883, to supervise construction of a dockyard; took part in work of constructing water-works of Tokyo; at present has charge of construction department of Navy. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/INOUYE, Katsunosuke

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​ INOUYE, Katsunosuke (TOKYO), Minister at Berlin; b. July, 1860, at Choshu. Secretary to Legation, Berlin, 1886; Secretary and Councillor, Foreign Office, 1892; appointed Minister to Berlin, 1898. Address: Berlin, Germany; and Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/INOUYE, Tetsujiro

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​ INOUYE, Tetsujiro (TOKYO), Dr. of Literature; b. Fukuoka, Dec., 1855. Educ.: Germany and France, from 1884 to 1899. Dean and Professor of Literature, Tokyo Imperial University, since 1890. Publications: "Life of Buddha"; "Oriental Philosophy," etc. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/INOUYE, Viscount Katsu

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​ INOUYE, Viscount Katsu (TOKYO), Member of House of Peers; b. Aug., 184, at Choshu. Held for many years post of Director-General of Government Railways; resigned, 1887; created Viscount, 1887; has been engaged in business in connection with rolling-stock since retirement from Government service. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/ISHIKAWA, Chiyomatsu

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​ ISHIKAWA, Chiyomatsu (TOKYO), Dr. of Science; b. Eihme, Jan., 1860. Educ.: Germany, 1886-1889. Professor of Tokyo Imperial University, since 1889. Publications: "Protected Birds": "Popular Evolutionist," etc. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
# What to Do?/Translator's note

Books which are prohibited by the Russian Censor are not always inaccessible. An enterprising publishing-house in Geneva makes a specialty of supplying the natural craving of man for forbidden fruit, under which heading some of Count L. N. Tolstoi's essays belong. These essays circulate in Russia in manuscript; and it is from one of these manuscripts, which fell into the hands of the Geneva firm, that the first half of the present translation has been made. It is thus that the Censor's omissions have been noted, even in cases where such omissions are in no way indicated in the twelfth volume of Count Tolstoi's collected works, published in Moscow. As an interesting detail in this connection, I may mention that this twelfth volume contains all that the censor allows of "My Religion," amounting to a very much abridged scrap of Chapter X. in the last- named volume as known to the public outside of Russia. The last half of the present book has not been published by the Geneva house, and omissions cannot be marked.
ISABEL F. HAPGOOD BOSTON, Sept. 1, 1887
# What to Draw and How to Draw It

Copyright, 1913, by E. G. Lutz All rights reserved
Printed in U.S.A.
INSTRUCTIONS
In drawing from this book, copy the last diagram, or finished picture, of the particular series before you.
The other diagrams—beginning with number one, then number two and so on—show how to go on with your drawing. They give the order in which to make the various strokes of the pencil that together form the completed picture. The dotted lines indicate where light lines are drawn that help in construction—that is; getting proportions correctly, outlining the general form, or making details in their proper places. Do not press hard on the pencil in making these construction lines, then they can be erased afterwards.
DRAWING OVALS AND ELLIPSES
Take note, first of all, of the difference between an ellipse and an oval.
The large plate explains the construction of an ellipse. It shows how to find the points where the three pins are placed that determine the size of the looped string. Be sure and make measurements accurately. Use a string that will not give, cotton thread is good for small ellipses, silk is too elastic. A suggestion to amateur gardeners: make elliptical flower beds this way.
The caution in regard to accuracy also applies to the making of the oval.
SUGGESTIONS FOR WATER-COLOR PAINTING
Here is a good list of colors for practical work. The first eight are enough for every purpose; but add, if you wish, purple and orange. Moist colors in pans are best. There are many different kinds of red, green, blue and brown paints; and as you may be puzzled and not know what to get, the names of the best hues of these particular colors are also given. The most useful paints in this list are yellow ochre, light red, Vandyke brown and Payne’s gray. Learn to work with them, use them often and see the beautiful effects they produce. Delicate tints are made with thin washes of yellow ochre and light red. Vandyke brown makes a variety of pleasing tints.
Use the bright colors sparingly.
# What vaileth truth?!

What vaileth truth? or by it to take pain, To strive by steadfastness for to attain To be just and true and flee from doubleness; Sithens all alike, where ruleth craftiness, Rewarded is both false and plain? Soonest he speedeth that most can feign; True-meaning heart is had in disdain. Against deceit and doubleness,  What vaileth truth?
Deceived is he by crafty train That meaneth no guile and doth remain Within the trap without redress. But for to love, lo, such a mistress, Whose cruelty nothing can refrain,  What vaileth truth?
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# War is Kind & Other Lines/You tell me this is God?

You tell me this is God? I tell you this is a printed list, A burning candle, and an ass.
# War is Kind & Other Lines/The trees in the garden rained flowers

The trees in the garden rained flowers. Children ran there joyously. They gathered the flowers Each to himself. Now there were some Who gathered great heaps -- Having opportunity and skill -- Until, behold, only chance blossoms Remained for the feeble. Then a little spindling tutor Ran importantly to the father, crying: "Pray, come hither! See this unjust thing in your garden!" But when the father had surveyed, He admonished the tutor: "Not so, small sage! This thing is just. For, look you, Are not they who possess the flowers Stronger, bolder, shrewder Than they who have none? Why should the strong -- The beautiful strong -- Why should they not have the flowers?" Upon reflection, the tutor bowed to the ground, "My lord," he said, "The stars are displaced By this towering wisdom."
# War is Kind & Other Lines/There was a land where lived no violets

There was a land where lived no violets. A traveller at once demanded : "Why?" The people told him: "Once the violets of this place spoke thus: 'Until some woman freely gives her lover To another woman We will fight in bloody scuffle.'" Sadly the people added: "There are no violets here."
# War is Kind & Other Lines/The chatter of a death-demon from a tree-top

The chatter of a death-demon from a tree-top
Blood -- blood and torn grass -- Had marked the rise of his agony -- This lone hunter. The grey-green woods impassive Had watched the threshing of his limbs.
A canoe with flashing paddle, A girl with soft searching eyes, A call: "John!" . . . . . Come, arise, hunter! Can you not hear?
The chatter of a death-demon from a tree-top.
# War is Kind & Other Lines/To the maiden

To the maiden The sea was blue meadow, Alive with little froth-people Singing.
To the sailor, wrecked, The sea was dead grey walls Superlative in vacancy, Upon which nevertheless at fateful time Was written The grim hatred of nature.
# War is Kind & Other Lines/The successful man has thrust himself

The successful man has thrust himself Through the water of the years, Reeking wet with mistakes -- Bloody mistakes; Slimed with victories over the lesser, A figure thankful on the shore of money. Then, with the bones of fools He buys silken banners Limned with his triumphant face; With the skins of wise men He buys the trivial bows of all. Flesh painted with marrow Contributes a coverlet, A coverlet for his contented slumber. In guiltless ignorance, in ignorant guilt, He delivered his secrets to the riven multitude. "Thus I defended: Thus I wrought." Complacent, smiling, He stands heavily on the dead. Erect on a pillar of skulls He declaims his trampling of babes; Smirking, fat, dripping, He makes speech in guiltless ignorance, Innocence.
# War is Kind & Other Lines/When a people reach the top of a hill

When a people reach the top of a hill, Then does God lean toward them, Shortens tongues and lengthens arms. A vision of their dead comes to the weak. The moon shall not be too old Before the new battalions rise, Blue battalions. The moon shall not be too old When the children of change shall fall Before the new battalions, The blue battalions.
Mistakes and virtues will be trampled deep. A church and a thief shall fall together. A sword will come at the bidding of the eyeless, The God-led, turning only to beckon, Swinging a creed like a censer At the head of the new battalions, Blue battalions. March the tools of nature's impulse, Men born of wrong, men born of right, Men of the new battalions, The blue battalions.
The clang of swords is Thy wisdom, The wounded make gestures like Thy Son's; The feet of mad horses is one part -- Ay, another is the hand of a mother on the brow of a youth. Then, swift as they charge through a shadow, The men of the new battalions, Blue battalions -- God lead them high, God lead them far, God lead them far, God lead them high, These new battalions, The blue battalions.
# War is Kind & Other Lines/When the prophet, a complacent fat man

When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top, He cried: "Woe to my knowledge! I intended to see good white lands And bad black lands, But the scene is grey."
# War is Kind & Other Lines/The impact of a dollar upon the heart

The impact of a dollar upon the heart Smiles warm red light, Sweeping from the hearth rosily upon the white table, With the hanging cool velvet shadows Moving softly upon the door.
The impact of a million dollars Is a crash of flunkeys, And yawning emblems of Persia Cheeked against oak, France and a sabre, The outcry of old beauty Whored by pimping merchants To submission before wine and chatter. Silly rich peasants stamp the carpets of men, Dead men who dreamed fragrance and light Into their woof, their lives; The rug of an honest bear Under the feet of a cryptic slave Who speaks always of baubles, Forgetting state, multitude, work, and state, Champing and mouthing of hats, Making ratful squeak of hats, Hats.
# White Paper on Indian States (1950)/Part 5/Problem of small States

Problem of small States
87. The small State had been the most vulnerable link in the chain of the Indian States. In 1933 the problem of consolidating some of the small States into local confederacies for the purpose of not only remedying their administrative deficiency, but also facilitating their inclusion in any federal arrangements applicable to India as a whole was considered, but was eventually dropped as impracticable.
88. In March 1939 Lord Linlithgow in his inaugural address to the Chamber of Princes stressed the desirability of the States with limited resources making arrangements for co-operative grouping for administrative purposes. The subject thereafter figured in all Chamber discussions and led to various co-operative grouping arrangements in different regions but these arrangements generally did not go beyond providing for common High Courts and common advisory staff for the Police force.
89. On 16th April, 1943, the Political Department issued a communique announcing the attachment with certain larger States of the small Western India States which collectively covered an area of 7,000 square miles with a population of 800,000. It announced the important principle that nothing which was not inherently capable of survival should be artificially perpetuated, and that the ultimate test of fitness for the survival of any State was its capacity to secure the welfare of its subjects. All these half-hearted measures hardly touched the fringe of the problem.
# White Paper on Indian States (1950)/Part 5/Integration of Major States

Integration of Major States
146. It had been declared by the Government of India that the States which had individual representation on the Constituent Assembly of India would be treated as viable units. As, however, integration of smaller States proceeded, it was found that in some cases, smaller and bigger states were geographically so interlinked that the smaller States by themselves could not constitute workable administrative units. The difficulty was inherent in the fact that the States as they were abruptly fossilized at a very fluid stage in India's history in the first quarter of ​the 19th century defied geography and most of them linguistically, ethnically and in other important respects, did not constitute self-contained natural units. The Rulers of Rewa, Indore, Gwalior and Patiala were the first to appreciate the imperative geographical and administrative considerations which operated against the continuance of their States as separate administrative units. Once these important States decided to pool their lot with their neighbours, the demand for subordinating local loyalties to the need of the re-alignment of States on more rational and natural basis became more insistent. The integration of other similarly placed major States followed as a necessary corollary. The Ruler of Mewar who had, in the first instance, declined to join the first Rajasthan Union now agreed to the integration of his State. The remaining Rajputana States followed suit as a direct consequence of the integration of the historic State of Mewar. Once the idea of a union of Rajasthan States with Mewar as its integral part took a concrete form, political and economic considerations, no less than the sentiments of the people, were, factors which could not be ignored by the rest of the Rajputana States. In the context of these developments, the States of Baroda, Kolhapur and Travancore could not stand by themselves. Inevitably, therefore, with the integration of some of the major States, the horizon of the people widened and a number of States, which had been recognised as viable units, were also affected by the process of integration.
# White Paper on Indian States (1950)/Part 5/Popular Movements in States

Popular Movements in States
90. 'Hopes and aspirations', wrote the authors of the Montagu-Chelmsford Report, thirty years ago, 'may overlap frontier lines like sparks across a street'. The events in the States since 15th August, 1947 have borne out the truth of this statement.
91. With the advent of independence, the popular urge in the States for attaining the same measure of freedom as was enjoyed by the people ​in the Provinces gained momentum and unleashed strong movements for the transfer of power from the Rulers to the people.
92. So far as the larger units were concerned, the democratisation of administration could be a satisfactory solution of their constitutional problem; however in the case of small States, responsible Government would have only proved a farce. The Rulers of the smaller States were in no position to meet the demand for equating the position of their people with that of their countrymen in the Provinces. With the best will in the world, these small units did not have the resources to stand up to popular agitation; nor could they afford the machinery for a self-sufficient and progressive democratic set-up. In some cases, the subversive elements did not hesitate to exploit the situation for their own ends. The result was a serious threat to law and order in the States. The situation, if allowed to deteriorate, would have imperilled peace and good order not only in these States but in the neighbouring Provinces as well. Without doubt the smaller State unis could not have continued in modern conditions as separate entities; integration provided the only approach to the problem.
93. The immediate objective of the policy of integration was the settlement of the problem of smaller States. As, however, the process of integrating small units in sizeable administrative unite gained strength, certain important factors, to which reference is made later, inevitably operated to bring within the compass of this process major States as well.
94. The integration of States did not follow a uniform pattern in all cases. Merger of States in the Provinces geographically contiguous to them was one form of integration; the second was the conversion of States into Centrally administered areas; and the third the integration of their territories to create new viable units known as Unions of States. Each of these forms has been adopted according to size, geography and other factors relating to each State or group of States.
In the paragraphs that follow, the results of this three-fold integration have been set out—not on the basis of the sequence of events, but according to the categories into which the integrated States could be classified.
# White Paper on Indian States (1950)/Part 5/Provincially-merged States/Gujarat States

​102. Merger of Gujarat States.—Another group of States that has merged with the Bombay Province consists of the Gujarat States. The fact that some of these States are situated close to the Indian border made it essential that a stable and efficient administration should be established in this area. The formation of a Union of the Gujarat States by themselves had to be ruled out on account of the fact that these States united together would not have constituted a viable unit. Geographically the territories of these States were interlaced and interspersed with the Baroda State territories and the Ahmedabad and Khera Districts of Bombay. The lack of geographical cohesion also rendered it difficult to unite and integrate the territories of these States into one unit. After prolonged discussions in Bombay, on 17th March, 1948, the Rulers of the jurisdictional Gujarat States agreed that merger with the Bombay Province was the only solution of their constitutional problem. The form of merger agreement was the same as that adopted for Deccan States (Appendix XIII). The total area covered by the States, estates, talukas and thanas in Gujarat numbering 144 (or 289 if the units are subdivided according to the number of the shareholders) was nearly 17,680 square miles, with a population of about 2.7 millions and a total revenue of rupees 16.5 millions. The administration of these States was taken over by the Bombay Government on 10th June, 1948. In November, 1948, the Bombay Government also took over the administration of Danta, a small State in Western Rajputana.