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Biography point of view, worthy of his best days, demonstrating that the hand of the master had lost none of its cunning, and piercing with the divination of genius to the deepest depths of human impulse and motive.

At present Count Tolstoi is said to be occupied by an important article, or series of articles, of a social-economic character, in which he proposes to express his views on the economic life of modern Russia. He has postponed for the present the completion of his drama, Trup (The Corpse), of which only a single act is finished, and to all appearance this latter work, which was looked forward too with so much curiosity, will not be ready till the end of the year.

April, 1901. xlii