Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-11-21
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Iaeep areon eyes which penetrate on,
like the N-f4y.
| re said You are Hungarian,
like HgnRarians Ny secretary Is
| ono top Where are yon eoingY ="
| no japan 90 study ART and ~
| America 90 study immisrptioh, | re-
I piled
Ar Art9 vino knows what
true am Is. what Is Your profess
sion
"a writer" / answered
Ana yeu write What2
+plaga for The theate
"Oh ihat is terrible hc exclaimed
| So one should write phys Many
81 them poison thc soul Of the public.
Nmt other things do yoQ write
"pVems
Aud ut this thc ared novelist
emsped hts hapds ANA wrnne them IA
despair
Poems oh You uuhappN man.
Nhy IL q nun writing poems " he
can write prose- Why does he make
i prison of his sentences hN rhyme
ana rhythm
"Bui What. I lnterposed. "of such
men as write The truth for the peo-
Bic ie YOU do
"What Is The truth, he asked NO
o. dp kpoWs Il ana everybody KNOWS
ifNc shodS is seeking for themselves
the tfuth aud from this standpoint
eyctYbody mWy bc a writer. what
tbeu do not Ike literature, the
modern literature because al the
authors are writing for tho sake OF
money ana not for IDEAS. They write
cheap 4Uries catering to the publlcs
likes ana avoiding thclr dislikes, for
mo Gord and AndreRroY nre not
writer's thoy ara business men You
remember that Ia 1898, after writing
The Resurrecilon ordered that thc
tlgth % publish my books be SET
ifee
"i3ut he continued, let me learn
of your mission J think II on inter |
estins one Why are the liungarans |
cmigratng
Beeause al the band is oecuped |
ana the poor cannot hive land TO I
live on" replied
This is the case IN Russia, ton bat
think in a hundred Years from now
II VII be "a crime to own land here
All he lHuds and fields VIII he COM
mon for the peNpe, An American
pr lcliet (prcsident emeritus or itar-
fud university has the best ideas
~ this subject Have You read him
Va am sorry then. for you
With this HE aged novelist cut
hort the interview ~ asking 10 be
Ncueed
= am ver, old and tired and
fmetimes | ann weak Today / had
very bad day must go
He shook hands and was gone.
secretnry Markoyietsky returned
o me aud I piled him with ques-
ions about Tolstoi's daily life
He said he Is up eaflY every morn
lR aud eats little breakfast He
f,f1Lu dim. gr t4daa ,,aghtt,tf4 a.. 49, I
oer Russan villages. one often
re HIM halt In the road, and pull
~ pencil and paper from his pocket, |
lakes notes ID his thoughts HIS
appiest moments are when poor vil-
ieTs come TO him as Judge Of some
isputes
To-day for instance. he wns arbi-
Mtfr Of some such trouble amung
ltrtt men, after walking on riding
q such expeditions 1olstoi comes
pme To work. to write Nobody
sks him what he ~ writing. becaus
& reHds what lac writes soon after
ard tp uthers and II they have ideas
'ai appcal 70 him he changes his.
Invariably however he repcnts
tth the cNclamation but those are
ol my idcas aud straightwaX he
'es INTO his own ideas
After tho luncheon AT noon he
les 70 hed until dinner time. Many
sltors come every day hut few arc
'coiNcd
asked Markwloisky about the 4
nperinl familEs attitude toward
Oistui ii
"lt is not truc.e ho snid that the j
af ana The imperial Family nrc en- a
liies to polstoi The emperor likes 81
m aud is proud that he rs "a Rus n
an think TINT the Grand Duke ls
lehael often pays visit at Tolstors s.
'nse II
May I ask how you came To ho c,
lAsician and secretary 90 Count Toll
Why J came along one afternoon
~ NJ ton have done today e. visit
e greet novelist. he asked me ol
MAJ part ot his works liked best m
ld replied The philosophical iu
ld religious. Whcreupon he asked IL II
would IKE Co rcmain with him. Ia
NOT noen homo since (scyer IL
sugsested that 1t must hc dra.
va in li'" win e man of such hl
'rugth ut mind al
con thc other hand Marko- i'm
ftsky r,ulied. "a feeI il the ercnt- IN
ui sood fortune and hoh thine
nr W touch with such a man. -
u Yves moonlight as I lctt thA Toll n'
'l hnuso and us I Wnllled back Co
RUNWAY station ! think ! sum 4,
'f'A'd mA Impressions iu this man
hoose hbo prison Everybody u
prisoner Co Tolsiois idous NnbodN
lN the trrr step There Ills idrns
ns over the hearth nt th. Dmuy
' Nl'nt ID ls % cruel thoueht.
Z added thc1 ma win br happier
fhc phllesoph,. and rcHgion of