Review of reviews and world's work . up allliterary work and leaving his home and family, hesallied forth in peasants garb to help them. He is now in the Dankovsky district, moving about fromhouse to house, from village to village, from cantonto canton, gathering information about tiie needs ofeach family and individual, feeding tiie hungry,tending the sick, comforting who have losttheir bread-winners, and utterly forgetful of liim-self. He has ojjened several tea-stands, .soup bootlis,and corn and clothing stores, whither the peasantsflock in large numbers and are served in batches;fir
Review of reviews and world's work . up allliterary work and leaving his home and family, hesallied forth in peasants garb to help them. He is now in the Dankovsky district, moving about fromhouse to house, from village to village, from cantonto canton, gathering information about tiie needs ofeach family and individual, feeding tiie hungry,tending the sick, comforting who have losttheir bread-winners, and utterly forgetful of liim-self. He has ojjened several tea-stands, .soup bootlis,and corn and clothing stores, whither the peasantsflock in large numbers and are served in batches;first the children and women, then tlui old men, and 40 THE REVIEW OF REl/IEUS. last of all the able-bodied who can find no work todo—all of them blessing him as their brother andsavior. From morning until night he is on his legs, dis-tributing, administering, organizing, as if endowedwith youthful vigor and an iron constitution. Hail,rain, snow, intense cold, and abominable roads arenothing to him; and as if all this were not enough. COUNT LEO TOLSTOI. to satisfy his appetite for work, he has found timeto compose a little epilogue for a literary miscellany,which will be shortly edited and sold for the benefitof the poor, and to contribute to a daily paper anarticle on the famine, entitled A Terrible Ques-tion. In this paper he dissipates all doubts as tothe vast proportions of the famine, which certainorgans of the press evinced a tendency to deny, andhe unwittingly makes use of exjiressious which havelaid him open to the grave charge of conspiringagainst the state. The obnoxious expression isprivate society ! FIGHTING THE authorities, he asserts, can very easily con-vince themselves that the distress is fearfully by collecting data which are lying to baud,waiting, so to say, to be registered. This infor-mation, he adds, may be gathered by the author-ities, the zemstvo, and more satisfactorily still by aprivate society formed for this express purpose. .
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