Yours faithfully,
G. Bernard Shaw.
FOOTNOTES:
[4] Besides the prefaces here referred to, Mr. G. Bernard Shaw has at various times written other articles on the subject.—(V. T.)
[5] It should be borne in mind that this letter was written before Mr. G. B. Shaw had seen the essay in question, by Tolstoy, now published in this volume.—(V. T.)
"No one will peruse a page without laying down the book a better and a wiser man."—Dundee Courier.
Tolstoy's Essays
and Letters
By LEO TOLSTOY
Translated by AYLMER MAUDE
This work contains twenty-six essays and letters (many published for the first time) belonging to the last fifteen years of Tolstoy's career, the period in which he has devoted himself exclusively to humanitarian labors. Therefore each has a definite altruistic purpose. In the letters in particular we have, in the words of the translator, "Tolstoy's opinions in application to certain definite conditions. They thus help to bridge the gulf between theory and practise."