The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-04-10
'TOLSTOY'S WORKS
TO Be PUBLISHED
Daughter Picking Out His
Literary Gems for Pub
LEGATION, Soon.

Philadelphia, April l0.-A London
correspondent Of the Public Ledger
writes When Tolstoy died last DC
tober, IL was said that he had left his
favorite daughter. safe from his wife
and the rest of his family, consid-
cradle amount of literary material 10
be published after his death. The an
nouncement attracted no great atten
tion ut the time for most of the great
Russians literary output in the last
two decades had proved to be OF COM
paratively little popular interest aside
from the fascination of the name sign
ed to IL. The faithful, OF course,
drank in every word of IT: but the
general reader seemed to find in it on
~ here and there "A CLEAN Of the gen
ius that had made TOlstoy famous
throughout the world as on of the
giants of the nineteenth century.
Recently ELECTED news about this
posthumous literature, however. sheds
les Count Tolstoy decided that his
fame as novelist was belttling his
work as IA prophet. The more he was
praised for the literary power of An
na Karcnina" and War and Peace
the more he distrustcd those mighty
books. The richer the stream of prof
its that rolled In from them, the more
he disapprovcd of IL. Then, in the
hight of his greatness, he decided that
he would publish no more fiction, eX-
ccpt such as might serve TO gid the
al nj pt,. nj - ~
wished TO administer and that what
ever was so published should be free
to the world. without fee or royalty TO
the author.
That was the beginning of the trou-
bic with his family. Countess Toistoy
was furious, and there were unpleas-
ant illusions to the self slaughter oil
q goose that had laid golden eggs.
Tolstoy remained firm and refused to
profit by his work, and also began to
do work by which ne could not have
proiited greatly, even il he had wish
cd to do so.
The breach with his family. except !
the one faithful daughter, widcned.
and ended last October, as all the
world knows in the fina, flight of the
old lion from his home. and the great
tragedy of his death almost literally |
by the waysidc.
And now u faithful friend of Toll
stoy and the beloved daughter who
followed him to his deathbcd has
come westward to arrange for the pub
LEGATION of the manuscripts long kept
under lock and key, in the hope or
getting from them enough to buy back !
from Countess Tolstoy and the other
children the Yasneya Poliana estate
which Tolstoy had earned for them
and which they afterward refused TO
surrender to the peasants, as Toistoy
wished.
II the requisite amount can be OBJ
tanned, and II in the meantime the
countess does not succeed in selling
the property for larger hSure-and
IL Is understood that her representa-
tives are now Offering ii in America
as well as In London and Paris-it !
will be acquired under the directions
of Tolstoy's will and turned over to
the peasant farmers who now work its
soil, and who presumably would be
permitted to buy ailotmentS at the
modest prices commanded by agri- |
cultural land Whereabouts.
The most interesting news in con-
nection with this story of Tolstoy's |
will IL that the literary material he
had left behind and which will be pub
lishcd simultaneously in the United |
States, England, France. Germany and
all the other countries having copy |
right regulations. on the anniversary |
Of the authors death next October. is ,
the work not of Tolstoy. the prophet !
but of vastly different writer Tol |
stoy. the novelist. and that most of it |
was written some thirty years ago. !
when the author was at the top notch |
Of his powers.
The material consists of enough to