The age-herald., 1900-04-08
HE OILY DAILY nEwspApsa IN ALABAMA
..Resurrection": A Novel.

"Resurrection," Tolstoy's first long is an even more powerful work than that marvellous study of passion and its conse- quences.
 The story opens graphically. Katusha is in prison, charged with murder and rob bery. There is something cynlcally hu- morous-with a dramatic element as well in the fact that the man who started her on the downward path is one of her jurors Then the story goes back a few chapters and relates the sad story of the betrayal of Katusha by Prince Nekhludoff, when she was a young dependent in the home of his aunt. When he comes face to face with her after so many years, and realizes what she has become, his con- science long dead, is aroused; the latent nobility of his nature is awakened, and he once more feels as he did before his youth was corrupted, and he was taught to be- lieve that virtue was bourgeois and weak. From then until the final chapter when a new life dawns for Nekhudoff, and he adopts the five simple, clear practical laws of the Sermon on the Mount as his creed. the story is a beautiful unfold ing ce his naturally noble soul.
 Through .a technical error of Nekhludoff and his fellow jurors Kutusha Maslova though innocent of crime, is convicted and sentenced to Sibera Nekhludoff decides to give his lands to his peasants, and to follow her-to marry her. if need be.
 The story is not, as might be supposed, a gloomy one, although it is a tragedy. Tine resurrection of Nekhludoff leads one to think of Hawthorne's words: ''Was that every sin, into which Adam precipitated himself and all his race-was it the des- tined means by which, over long path way of toll and sorrow, we are to attain higher brighter and profounder hap piness, than our lost birthright gave? Will not this idea account for the existence of sin, no theory can?"
 Resurrection is pre-emnentIy the story of a soul born again. and by its re- generation saving another, but it does not stop there. It paints in sombre and ap- palling colors the terrible conditions exist ing in Russia; it speaks in trumpet tones of mans inhumanfty to man" in that coun- try. Not page, however, is Aggression, for every subject treated is necessary for the working out of the story. Nekhludoff and Maslova are drawn by a master hand Indeed Tolstoy knows human natl1re to the core. These two characters seem moro real to us than many living men and wom- en. His peasants, too, are as real as Millets-stolid, unresponsive, and "bent with the weight of centuries''
 Tolstoy is a warm admirer of Henry George and pays the theories of the Ameri- can a fine tribute. In this book he also exploits many of his peculiar views, such as non-resistance to evil ascetism, com munism, duty of manual labor and of every one to live as the peasants live.
 Tolstoy may be a fanatic not wholly sane, as many of his critics, have said. but the following passage from "Resurrec- tion'' reveals a spirit of broad philanthro-
 
 of him, as of Abou Ben Adhem, he is one who loves his fellow men:
 'one may deal with things without love; one may cut down trees, make bricks hammer iron without love; but you can not deal with men without it, just as one cannot deal with bees without being care ful. If you deal carelessly with bees you will injure them and will yourself be in- jured. And so with men. It cannot be otherwise; because natural love is the fundamental law of human life. It is true that man cannot force another to love him, as he can force him to work for him, but 1t does not follow that a man may deal with men without love, especially to demand anything of them. If you feel no love, sit still occupy yourself with things, with yourself, with anything you like. only not with men. You can only eat without injuring yourself when you feel inclined to eat. so you can only deal with men usefully when you love-"
 
 Four Essential Conditions.