TOLSTOI BECOMES A BOOKBINDER.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2007, 24 September 1906, Page 7

TOLSTOI BECOMES A BOOKBINDER.

i LAS COYEHED 100 VOLUMES. Count Tolstoi lately added book- ) binding 1o the numerous skilled I trades which he already practices. According to M. Levcnson, who has j just returned from a visit to Tula, I he spent the first half of last winter |in binding in leather a library of ! four hundred paper bound volumes, J doing everything from the making of the covers to the gilding and lettering with his own hands. "Tolstoi," says M. Leverson, "is in excellent health, but reads less than formerly and sleeps longer. His reading chiefly consists of English and American books, dealing with practical questions, such as cooperation of labour and capital, working-class houses and municipal government. He reads now chiefly lying dawn. "Tolstoi no longer rides on horseback every day, but he never fails to j take a walk, however fiercely the ' storm may rage outside. "He is as careless of his health as ever, and on my leaving he insisted on standing on the doorway in a j violent snowstorm without coat or j hat. When remonstrated with he in- < variably says that he has ignored cold and hardship all his life, and ; to that he attributes his heartiness and comparative youth." I