. The complete works of Count Tolstoy. is pre-disposition to consumption — he had lost two brothersby that disease — had once before caused him to go toSamara for the purpose of undergoing a kumys cure. Hehad continued this cure at home, manufacturing his ownkumys, a malodorous ferment, which he kept close to hisstudy. In June of 1871 his wife insisted upon his goingonce more to Samara, as his health was again living among the Bashkirs, whose simplicity andnaturalness he admired greatly, he read Herodotus, andimagined that in the Bashkirs he recogoized those veryScythians of whom
. The complete works of Count Tolstoy. is pre-disposition to consumption — he had lost two brothersby that disease — had once before caused him to go toSamara for the purpose of undergoing a kumys cure. Hehad continued this cure at home, manufacturing his ownkumys, a malodorous ferment, which he kept close to hisstudy. In June of 1871 his wife insisted upon his goingonce more to Samara, as his health was again living among the Bashkirs, whose simplicity andnaturalness he admired greatly, he read Herodotus, andimagined that in the Bashkirs he recogoized those veryScythians of whom the Greek author spoke. The virginnewness of the country attracted him, and he thoughtseriously of purchasing an estate there. After his returnto Yasnaya Polyana he once more opened a peasantschool, in which he himself and his wife and childrenacted ?? teachers. As early as 1868, when Eugene ??1?? ??? sneytsT ?1?)?1§??0 ???|?1?? envouJ Tolstoys Daughters Tatyana and MaryaLuovna I^hologravure from a Photograph. LEV N. TOLSTOY 261 Schuyler visited him, he had been working on the compo-sition of primers, as the existing ones seemed to him tobe written in a poor language and to be beyond the chil-dren. At his request, Schuyler provided for him a numberof American school-books, which aided him materially inhis undertaking. These primers, four in number, contain-ing original short stories, among them the Prisoner of theCaucasus, and a mass of translations and adaptations, hefinished soon after he had again opened school. He puthis whole soul into this matter, as he himself said, add-ing, changing, and correcting for a long time. Such is thesimplicity and straightforwardness of the diction in thestories contained in these primers, that they even nowform the best parts of Eussian primers for the pubhcschools. At the same time he began to write Anna Karcnin, a work which is near to my heart, as he wrote at thetime. Turgenev, who heard of Tolstoys new literarywork, hoped that there
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