The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-24


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ON receiving The letter. 1ulstuy scnt " 10
their recent host, with tho following ~.
mark u wish you all that IL good In your
relations with this man. hat dcspise him
| have written ~ to him, and now have
nothing more TO do with him, except %
FAR NJ, should no desire II, to give MIN salts
faction. Hero IL his answer, which
| accepted ~ satisfactory, merely observing
that the grounds upon which ] excuse him
arc not opposite features In our characters,
but such a. he can himself understand
Some months later, nevertheless, Tolstoy,
being In Moscow, was one day In one Of the
moods into which even then he sometimes
fell. moods full OF humility and brotherly
love, In which he wished and strove for the
good and great. while in this mood he
could not bear to ha We an enemy. There
fore, on September rs, 1851, he wrote a
letter 10 Turgenlef in which he expressed
his regret that their relations were hostile.
IF l offended you" he wrote, forgive me-.
l I'm very unhappy TO know have an
enemy" Unluckily, this message was not
delivered to Turgenief until the latter had
heard from reliable people" that copies
Of Tolstoy's preceding letter, the one in
which he informed his brother novelist
that he "despised" him, we're being clrcu-
lated over all Moscow by Tolstoy's hand.
Naturally indignant, Turgenief sent a chal-
lenge to Tolstoy, who replied that the alleged
circulation Of copies was a sheer fiction.
while at the same time he himself asked
forgiveness and renounced his own former
cha llenge. 1t will be observed that this
account of a deplorable incident, an ac-
count derived from first hand sources, 10
materially different from the description
contained in the "reminiscences of Tur-
genef,n printed in the Historical RerielS for
November, 1883.
In this first volume Of the biography
almost half of Tolstoy's life is set forth in
the desired detail. The spiritual crisis
by which he was to be transformed had
not yet arrived, but evidently was pre-
pairing. Already the striking features Of
his character are the passionate ardor OF
his search for truth and the real meaning
of human life, a truthfulness and a fearless
sincerity which often exposed him to dis
agreeable encounters, and a fervent love
Of goodness and purity, though as yet he
often diverged from the path he desired
to follow. In the next volume, to which
we look forward with uncommon interest,
is to be depicted that current of events
in Tolstoy's life which brought him to the
point where his thirst for truth led him to
what he was to accept as the only solution
and foundation of human life, and the only
guide to his further exertions-religion.