and
to repent his own cruelty.

=Work, Death, and Sickness.= A legend accredited to the
South American Indians, showing the three means God took to
make men more kind and brotherly toward each other.

=Three Questions.= A quaint folk-lore tale answering the
three questions of life: "What is the Best Time?" "Who Are
the Most Important Persons?" "What Thing Should be Done
First?"

OPINION OF THE PRESS

_St. Louis Globe-Democrat_: "Count Tolstoy is a
man so sure of his message and so clear about it
that he always finds something worth while to
say.... There is a quality in the little tales
published under the title 'Esarhaddon' which is
quickly suggestive of certain Biblical narratives.
There is one called 'Three Questions,' which
contains, in half a dozen pages, an entire
philosophy of life, and it is presented in such
apt pictures and ideas that its meaning is not to
be overlooked. It would be hard to suggest
anything that could be read in five minutes that
would impart so much to think about. 'Esarhaddon,'
the sketch from which the volume takes its name,
is of the same character, and the third tale,
'Work, Death, and Sickness,' is full of very fine
thought. There is, perhaps, no writer working
to-day whose mind is centered on broader and
better things than the Russian master, and the
present offering shows him at his very best."

"Hour-Glass Stories." Dainty 12mo, Cloth, Frontispiece,
Ornamental Cover, 40 cents, Postpaid

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, Publishers
NEW YORK and LONDON

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What Is Art?

Translated from the Original Manuscript, with an
Introduction by AYLMER MAUDE

Art is a human activity, declares Tolstoy. The object of
this activity is to transmit to others feelings the artist
has experienced. By certain external signs--movements,
lines, colors, sounds or arrangements of words--an artist
infects other people so that they share his feelings; thus,
"art is a means of union among men, joining them together
in the same feeling." Without adequate expression there is
no art, for there is no infection, no transference to
others of the author'