TOLSTOI BECOMES A BOOKBINDER.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2643, 28 August 1906, Page 7

TOLSTOI BECOMES A BOOKBINDER.

HAS C<>\ T.KKI) 100 YoUMKS. Count Tolstoi lately added bookbinding in the numerous skilled irafl<'s which hi' already practices. According to M. Ijevenson, who has just relumed from a visit to Tula, lie spout lh(! first hull' of last winter in binding in lent her a library of four hundred paper hound volumes, doing everything from the making of the covers to the gilding and lettering with his own hands. "Tolstoi." says M. I.evrson. "is in excellent health, but reads less than formerly and sleeps longer. His reading chiefly consists of Knglish and American hooks, dealing with practical questions, such as cooperation of labour and capital. working-class houses and municipal government. He reads now chiefly lying down. "Tolstoi no longer rides on horseback every day. but he never fails to take a walk, however fiercely the storm mas rage outside. "He is as careless of his health as c\er. and on my leaving he insisted on standing on the doorway in a violent snowstorm without coat or hat. When remonstrated with he invariably says that he lias ignored cold and hardship all his life, and to that he attributes his heartiness and comparative youth."