The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-17


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acteristiu fart that during his military ssr.
vlce Tolstoy had disagreemsnts With hs
superior officers and oomradee owing 10 bis
love Of h1nesty and justice. II seems that
In those days perhaps In thesN days also
Russian commanders Of different sections
Of q battery, ~ we'll a. the COMMANDER ~
a whole battery. were accustomed 10 hold
hack for themselves part 81 the money al
lotted 10 them from the army chest 10 spend
on keeping up the battery. We lean that
Tolstoy, on making up his accounts, when
he found a surplus remaining over ct
penses would add II 10 the sum apportioned
for the battery. instead OF approprating it
10 himself. II seems that this practice
was viewed with great disfavor by other
commanders, and Toistoy was reproved for
II by Gen. K~rizhanovsky. Another subject
ri complaint was that Tolstoy urged his fel-
low officers to refund TO the Govern ment the
excess OF forage money whenever "a officers
horse did not consume the quantity Of fod-
der II was supposed to eat.
II Is interesting 10 read the titles OF the
works by which Tolstoy was most inhu-
enoed after his return from the Crimea and
up to the thirty-ffth year Of his age. The
list includes the Odyssey and the Tliad. two
Of Plato's dialogues in q Russian translation.
Goethe'e Hermann und Dorot ca Victor
Hugo's 'Notre Dame de Paris Ind the
verses OF three Russian poets. BE has him
self recorded, however, that all that he
knew about war he learned first OF all from
Stendhal. Il win speak Of him, be wrote,
only as the author Of the 'Chartreuse de
Pame' and Rouge ct Noir.' These are
two great. inimitable works Of art. / am
indebted for much to Stendhal. He taught
me to understand war. Read once more
in the 'Chartreuse de Parme' his account
Of the Battle of Waterloo. Who before him
had 30 described war-that Is, as it is in
reality?'
We reserve for q third and concluding in
stalment a glance at that part Of Tolstoy's
early manhood during which occurred his
quarrel with Turgenief, his twoirst journeys
abroad, his marriage, and the observations
or experiences ultimately embodied in his
most artistic novel, Anna Earenina,