Review of reviews and world's work . ism, upon all who Iefuse to swimwith the current and bow down in adoration before^Northern Messenger, toe. cit. the idols of the The baiting began in theMoscow Gazette (the organ of the late M. KatkofT),which scoffed and sneered at Countess Tolstois let-ter announcing as an uncommonly impoitant eventthe depaiture of the whole high-born family of hisexcellency for the famine stricken districts, to bringrelief to the destitute. A BOGUS CONSPIRACY. But this onslaught on the high born family of hisexcellency was but the prelude to the storm raisedin the
Review of reviews and world's work . ism, upon all who Iefuse to swimwith the current and bow down in adoration before^Northern Messenger, toe. cit. the idols of the The baiting began in theMoscow Gazette (the organ of the late M. KatkofT),which scoffed and sneered at Countess Tolstois let-ter announcing as an uncommonly impoitant eventthe depaiture of the whole high-born family of hisexcellency for the famine stricken districts, to bringrelief to the destitute. A BOGUS CONSPIRACY. But this onslaught on the high born family of hisexcellency was but the prelude to the storm raisedin the Moscow press against C^ouut Tolstoi while some journals were reproaching him forhaving said nothing new, the Moscow Gazette dis-covered in his article one of the links of a wide-spread conspiracy. Although the suggestion madeby the count was not by any means original, themethod of realizing it was; and the idea of privatepersons forming, perhaps, a private society, goingabout collecting information about the famine, ter-. DAUGHTER TATIANA, NOW WITH HER PAHENTh TIIK FAMINE DISTRICTS. 43 THE REl/IEW OF REVIEWS. rifled and enraged the Moscoiv Gazette.* Amongthe otlier members of this \vid?siiread conspiracy \vas the well-known Russian philosopher, VladimirSolovieff. f It is very curious, and for newspaperreaders instructive, to note that the phrase wide-spread conspiracy was interpreted aupied de la lettreby imsuspecting newspaj^er correspondents, in con-sequence of vvhich English and Continental journalscontained, next day, an important telegram to the^ffect that in Moscow a widespread conspiracy .had just been providentially brought to light. COUNT TOLSTOI ON MANUAL LABOR. Nor is it only in connection with his campaignagainst the famine that Count Tolstoi is become aconspirator and an anathema in the eyes of some ofhis Slavophile brethren ; some of his least orthodoxwritings, what one may aptly term his Latter-dayPamphlets, have at last been published i
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