The sun., 1903-06-21
70IST0Y'S RECENT OUTBREAK.
vODERN SOCIETY 4 RESTORA-
TFON OF HE'LL.

Round the stump In New Book That
VIII Net BE Published In Russia-Mod'
eru Iife ScOursed-VieWs on Many
Topics From His Letters-Theory ana
I.nco Canny Practice In Money Matters.
ST. PETERSBURG. June 4.-"Be sure to nave
Friday and Saturday of this week FREQ from
engagements" charming st. petersburg
hostees said to me the other week. Our old
time friend Nine X. has just returned from
Yassnaya Poliana, bringing back little
thing Tolstoy has just finished, and am
arranging Few to have it read some evening
of this week at our house. windfall? OF
course it is! Nine. X. will have lots of things
to tell us about how things 60 on there with
her sister. the Countess. and Tolstoy him.
SELF"
Is there any need to say that took good
care to have no engagements to interfere
with my being present at the reading
OF Tolstoy's unpublished production? 1t
proved to be short story of a Legend
ary cast, kind of dialogue between
old Beelzebub and his one-time appren-
tices, who appear to have outstripped
their old-time teacher in the art of leading
men into evil ways.
The contents Of the story are we'll de-
scribed by it's title. ~The Overthrow Of He'll
and the Restoration Of the Same
have read the manuscript myself since,
but this was done hurriedly Let it be we'll
understood, therefore, that am not giving
here anything like a translation Of Tolstoy's
legendary story, not even an attempt at
consecutive reproduction of the action, as
it develops through the dialogues Of old
Beelzebub and his pupils. These dialogues
serve as a canvas on which the writer is
embroidering and vividly presenting his
own peculiar views concerning the evil
ways OF the civilization Of our own times.
Nothing could be clearer. by the way. that
il Is not conditions of life in Russia alone that
fail to satisfy Tolstoy. but that his ire is
aroused by the trend Of modern life the
world over.
Tolstoy opens his story by telling us that
the first fruits of Christ's teachings and
example had thrown old Beelzebub in the
greatest CONSERVATION. He has been watch
ing the self-sacrifcing lives of Christ's
early followers. observed the way they had
Of loving ones neighbor az oneself Of
doing to others as one would be done by
and, therefore, most depressing prospect Of
-nnocuous desuetude' was opening to his
Satanic Majesty's mind
Iaht GUNNER Oh expectation arose III
tne breast OF Dee'%eouo at 'i'r |rucii.Aio,,
as onr7st exclaimed: My zoo! My 9oo!
why hast lhou iorsaken me- ms ex-
pectatoh. however. was ooofneo 10 cue
out as suooehly as IL arose lot instead OF
repe'nne against tne rather' as heelzeouo
nopeo' .hrlst began 10 pray LOT ms enemies
rather. forglre them. 1or they Rno" not
what they 90. Ana tnen, exeialm-
;po ~ 7, l., G,,,. hoL ,-~I e
lhR' IL Is nhlshed ne bowed ms head ana
gave up the ghost--ahu reeeehheo mankind.
seeing whlch' lhe shnltten d. bseizeoun gave
wa! 10 utter despair ana SANK Underground,
"here ne renamed NV or 'o' OF e'eh'
MAYBE more huhu'eus OF years
'hhe ro'eo on however ana eEen'uany
something occurred 10 MAKE even be elzebun
co'he 10, ne a"o"e WIN START ana al
'rst couiu hot hhae.ne 'he reason OF 'he
a"Lui sroa's anu p'.nu! t,; nslnk anu ianleh-
.t. ..a',' ...a. 10 l,. ",. ,e,,
m. ~. .hena',,,,,. ana,,aa u o,...,,S.
.ve, .,,c, ",rslv ro,,,d no, ~, ,hs oas.
since Christ had given m his life to redeem
mankind"
Yet hell il was. sure enough Upon
accommodating through a crevit., that he
found over his head Beelzebub emerged
INTO a real old.tine hell and was forth
with surrounded by a host of oeyi,s-preat
and little-who were jumping about in their
glee at seeing their old master, welcoming
their old chief and director
Old Beelzebub is astonishnd and freely
expresses his wonder us to here the
devils got their material for colo nizing
this newly established hell since-as he
we'll remembers--Chris''s teachings made
all men brothers. prompted the Christians
TO give up all their worldly possessions,
so as to concentrate all their thoughts and
all their energies to the task Of attaining
perfection-so as to be worthy Of the great
teacher and founder Of Christianity.
Beelzebub, in fact. is presented in the
story in the part Of another Rip Van WnI;le,
as he plies the bystanders with questions,
while each Of the devils, big and little,
comes up before the chief, boasfng to him
Of his own individual work and achieve
ments and inventions that went 20 build
"p ana restore "lo he,.'
roren'ost OF al s'ro'leo np 10 nun great
o'g. .oeIl'ed devil ana sat Gown heavily
IN iront OF heei"eoun' nea'ins 'he ground
with MS iat' muscular TAI" Inns devil