The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-21

America TO study immigration re-
piled.
art? Arte Who knows what true
art is? What is your profession"
" "A writer ] answered.
And YOU write WhatT
" PLAYS for the theatre.
" on that is terrible he exclaimed.
40 one should write PLAYS. Many of
them poison the soul of the public
" hat other things do you Write.
" Poems.
And at this the aged novelist clasped
his hands and wrung them in despair.
Poems Oh, you unhappy man. Why
is "a man writing poems if he can write
prose? Why does he make poison Of
his sentences by rhyme and rhythm
But what, / interposed, of such
men as write the truth OF the people IS
you doF
Dislikes Literature.
What is the TRUTH he asked. No
body knows it and everybody knows.
Everybody is seeking for themselves
the truth and from this standpoint
everybody may be writer. What then?
1 do not like literature, the modern lit
eraUure, because all the authors are
writing for the sake OF money and not
for ideas. They Write cheap stories,
catering TO the public'S likes and avoid
ing their dislikes. For me, Cork and
AndregrOV are not writer's, they are
business men. You remember that in
1898, after writing The Resurrection"
/ ordered that the right 70 publish my
books be set free
But. he continued, let me learn
of your mission. / think il an inter
esting one Why are the Hungarians
emigratingY
Because all the land is occupied
and the poor cannot have land to live
on, I replied
This is the case in Russia. too. but
1 think in a hundred years from now
it will be a crime 20 own land here
All the lands and fields will be common
nj An Avaaa4 a5f4arr
(president emeritus OF Harvard unlVeF-
sity), has the best ideas on this sub
lect. Have you read him? No. L am
sorry. then. for you.
with this the aged novelist cut short
the interview by asking to be excused.
4 am very old and tired and sometimes
] am weak. Today / had a very bad
day. i must go he shook hands and
Secretary Markovietsky returned TO
me and j piled him with questions about
I TOistOis daily lie.
He said. He is up early every
morning and eats little breakfast. He
walks alone or rides horseback to the
poor Russian villages. one often sees
him halt in the road and, pulling pen
ell and paper from his pocket, make
notes of his thoughts, His happiest
moments are when poor villagers come
to him as judge of some dispute.
To-day, for instance, he was ar
bitratOr of some such trouble among
thirty men. After walking or riding on
| such expeditions. TolstOi comes home
TO work, to write. Nobody asks him
what he is writing, because he reads
what he writes soon afterward to 9TH
ers and if they have ideas that appeal
to him he changes his.
Receives Few Visitors.
Invariably, however, he repents
with the exclamation, but these are
not my ideas, and straightWay he re-
turns TO his own ideas. After the
luncheon at noon he goes 10 bed until
dinner time. Many visitors come every
day but few are received. and in the
/ evening with neighbOrs he has music.
Il asked MarkOVietsky about the
/ imperial family's attitude toward Toll
stoi
1T is not true he said that the
car and the imperial family are
enemies of TOlstOi. The emperor likes
I him and is proud that he is a Russian.
I think the Grand Duke Michael often
pays a visit TO I0lstCfs house.
May l ask how you came TO be ply
stefan and secretary 10 Count Tolstoi?
Why, 1 came along one afternoon
/ Just as you have done today to visit
! the great novelist lie asked me what
I part of his works I liked best, and /
| replied: The philosophical and re-
/ ligious," Whereupon he asked if ! would
/ like to remain with him. l have not
/ been home since, seven years.
! 4 suggested that II must be diff
/ cult 10 live with a man OF such strength
of mind.
Ou the OAutl manu. AldikoNltlShN
replied, i feel il the greatest of good
fortune and a holy thing TO be in touch
/ with such a man.
1T was moonlight as j left the Toll
stOi house and as I walked back TO the
railway station, / think / summarized
my impressions in this manner:
House like a prison Everybody
I a prisoner to TOlstOis ideas. Nobody
/ may take q free step there. His ideas
I hang over the hearth of the family like
/ a tyrant Il is a cruel thought, but /
added. they will be happier free.
The philosophy and religion of Toll
stOi viii pass as a wind, but the 70
nance of Tolstoi will endure"