TRANSLATOR'S NOTE.



Books which are prohibited by the Russian Censor are not always
inaccessible. An enterprising publishing-house in Geneva makes a
specialty of supplying the natural craving of man for forbidden
fruit, under which heading some of Count L. N. Tolstoi's essays
belong. These essays circulate in Russia in manuscript; and it is
from one of these manuscripts, which fell into the hands of the
Geneva firm, that the first half of the present translation has been
made. It is thus that the Censor's omissions have been noted, even
in cases where such omissions are in no way indicated in the twelfth
volume of Count Tolstoi's collected works, published in Moscow. As
an interesting detail in this connection, I may mention that this
twelfth volume contains all that the censor allows of "My Religion,"
amounting to a very much abridged scrap of Chapter X. in the last-
named volume as known to the public outside of Russia. The last half
of the present book has not been published by the Geneva house, and
omissions cannot be marked.

ISABEL F. HAPGOOD
BOSTON, Sept. 1, 1887



ON LABOR AND LUXURY.