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What to Do? (1887)
by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Isabel F. Hapgood
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WHAT TO DO?
THOUGHTS EVOKED BY THE CENSUS
OF MOSCOW


by
COUNT LYOF N. TOLSTOÏ

translated from the russian
By ISABEL F. HAPGOOD

NEW YORK
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.
13 Astor Place
1887

Copyright, 1887,
By THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.

electrotyped and printed
BY RAND AVERY COMPANY,

boston.


BY THE SAME AUTHOR.


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WHAT TO DO?

THOUGHTS EVOKED BY THE CENSUS OF MOSCOW

BY

COUNT LYOF N. TOLSTOI

TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN

By ISABEL F. HAPGOOD


NEW YORK

THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.

13 Astor Place

1887

Copyright, 1887,

By THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.

ELECTROTYPED AND PRINTED

BY RAND AVERY COMPANY,

BOSTON.

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE.


Books which are prohibited by the Russian Censor are not always inaccessible. An enterprising publishing-house in Geneva makes a specialty of supplying the natural craving of man for forbidden fruit, under which heading some of Count L. N. Tolstoi's essays belong. These essays circulate in Russia in manuscript; and it is from one of these manuscripts, which fell into the hands of the Geneva firm, that the first half of the present translation has been made. It is thus that the Censor's omissions have been noted, even in cases where such omissions are in no way indicated in the twelfth volume of Count Tolstoi's collected works, published in Moscow. As an interesting detail in this connection, I may mention that this twelfth volume contains all that the censor allows of "My Religion," amounting to a very much abridged scrap of Chapter X. in the last-named volume as known to the public outside of Russia. The last half of the present book has not been published by the Geneva house, and omissions cannot be marked.

ISABEL F. HAPGOOD

Boston, Sept. 1, 1887.

CONTENTS.


page

ARTICLE ON THE CENSUS IN MOSCOW
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1
THOUGHTS EVOKED BY THE CENSUS OF MOSCOW
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15
ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SCIENCE AND ART
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169
ON LABOR AND LUXURY
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251
TO WOMEN
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205

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