THE 'WORLD'S CLASSICS' Series, Oxford UNIVERSITY PRESS Pocket size, 6 by 4 inches. On thin opaque paper. sultan-red leather, 3s. 6d. net. The Cossacks and Tales of the Caucasus. Cloth, 25. net; Including: The Raid, The Wood-Felling and Meeting a Moscow Acquaintance in the Detachment. 'The best story that has been written in our language.'—Turgenev. War and Peace (3 vols.). 'We feel that we were ourselves there; that we knew those people.; that they are a part of our very own past.'-Maurice Baring.. Anna Karenina (2 vols.). .. a thing to Anna Karenina as an artistic production is perfection. which European literature of our epoch offers no equal.'-Dostoevski. Confession and What I Believe (1 vol.). Certainly one of the most remarkable books ever written. Tolstoy's artistic mastery is nowhere more intense.'-Prince D. S. Mirsky. Twenty-three Tales. Containing God Sees the Truth, What Men Live By, Where God is Love is, Ivan the Fool, The Three Hermits, The Imp and the Crust, etc. I regard them as the most perfect tales ever written.'-Carmen Sylva. The Kreutzer Sonata, Family Happiness, and Polikushka (1 vol.). 'Amid all that is now being written here and abroad, it is hardly possible to find anything equivalent to it in importance of conception and beauty of execution.'-A. P. Chekhov. Plays. A complete edition (including the posthumous plays). 'Nothing in the whole range of drama fascinated me more than the old soldier in The Power of Darkness.'-Bernard Shaw. Essays and Letters. Including: Afterword to the Kreutzer Sonata, Religion and Morality, How to Read the Gospels, Letters on Henry George, Modern Science, Patriotism and Government, What is Religion? and nineteen other articles. W Gives an excellent idea of the vast range of Tolstoy's intellectual activities.'-Daily News. Resurrection. Undoubtedly the most important novel that has appeared in Europe for many years.'-Edward Garnett. What then must we do? Tolstoy's remarkable and prophetic study of social conditions. Other Volumes in Preparation OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, AMEN HOUSE, WARWICK SQUARE, E.C.4. By AYLMER MAUDE. Containing 3 essays by Aylmer Maude, 16 articles on art by Tolstoy (including On Art, What is Art? and his essays on Maupassant, Shakespeare, Chekhov, and others), and considerable additional matter. Royal 8vo (6 by 91), pp. xii, 506. Buckram boards. illustrations. Price 17s. 6d. net. With II 'An excellent new edition of Tolstoy's What is Art? together with his other pronouncements on this difficult question, and upon certain books and authors. What is Art? is a book I have long admired.'—AFFABLE HAWK in The New Statesman. 'Tolstoy's criticism of Maupassant-one of the finest pieces of criticism of the nineteenth century.'-The Empire Review. The great value of his treatise is his insistence of the humanity of art, his challenge to received opinions, and the extraordinary freshness, clearness and definiteness of his thought. The book, whatever one thinks of it, cannot be ignored.'-Manchester Guardian. 'It is getting on to thirty years since the asthetes and the critics of all Europe made a stupendous fuss of controversy over the publication of Mr. Aylmer Maude's translation into English of Tolstoy's What is Art?an authorised version approved and praised by Tolstoy himself when smarting under the ruthless blue pencil of the censor at Petrograd . but it is still open to argument how far he has said the last word on this changing and progressing problem. A number of detached papers and essays... are reproduced in this deeply interesting collection.' -The Scotsman. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, AMEN HOUSE, WARWICK SQUARE, E.C.4. LEO TOLSTOY By AYLMER MAUDE. 8vo. 7 illustrations, 8s. 6d. net. A complete biography. . 'Mr. Maude's book is eminently entertaining. He is our best English authority on Tolstoy because, while admiring and loving him, he judges calmly and is not carried away by hero-worship.'-Yorkshire Post. METHUEN & CO., 36 ESSEX STREET, LONDON, W.C.2. THE LIFE OF TOLSTOY By AYLMER MAUDE. Vol. I-FIRST FIFTY YEARS. 8 illustrations each. Demy 8vo. Nothing better could be conceived . . in scores.'-Edward Garnett. Seventh Edition. 12s. 6d. net cach. delicious anecdotes there are RESURRECTION 16 illustrations. 7s. 6d. net. PLAYS 7 illustrations. 7s. 6d. net. SEVASTOPOL (including TWO HUSSARS, etc.) Portrait and map. Is. 6d. net. CONSTABLE & CO., 10 ORANGE STREET, W.C.2. BRITISH 17 JUL 25 |