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...wrote a young officer of the siege of Sevastopol. His name was Count Leo Tolstoy, and the siege was during the Crimean...
...laymen have felt that the context of the New Testament obscured, if it did not confuse, the words of Christ. One of them was Leo Tolstoy, who made his own translation of the Gospels; another was Thomas Jefferson, who made his own (somewhat arbitrarily eclectic) anthology of Christ's words...
...Tolstoy-"No rational man . . . can help seeing that there is no practical way out; that it is impossible to devise any alliance or organization that can save us from the destruction into which we are uncontrollably rushing...
...Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the U.S.; Bergson's Creative Evolution; Frazer's Golden Bough; W. H. Hudson's Far Away and Long Ago; William James's Moral Equivalent of War; Lewis' Babbitt; Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought; Tolstoy's What...
...Buck. Pearl Buck has a perception of human life and a prose style which combine most of the vices of the Lang, Leaf & Myers translation of The Iliad with some of the virtues of the Old Testament, Tolstoy, and the early Gertrude Stein. Her five senses are nearer the page than those of most authors. At her best she has a remarkable talent for telling a thing so that it seems not to be told about but actually to happen. Yet her narrative is never quite heroic and her superbly ordered peasant simplicities keep sieving-off into the remote beauties...