TOLSTOI BECOMES A BOOKBINDER.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 18, Issue 11, 5 February 1907, Page 2

TOLSTOI BECOMES A BOOKBINDER.

, — * — HAS COVERED 400 VOLUMES. * Count Tolstoi lately added boakbinding to the numerous skilled trades which he already practices. According to M. Levenson, who has just returned from a visit to Tula, he spent the first half of last winter in binding in leather a library of four hundred paper bound volumes, doing everything from the making of the covers to the gilding and lettering with his own hands. "Tolstoi,” says M. Levorson, "is in excellent health, but reads loss 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 down. "Tolstoi no longer rides on horseback every clay, but he never fails to 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 violent snowstorm without coat or hat. When remonstrated with he invariably says that lie has ignored cold and hardship all his life, and to that he attributes his heartiness and coimparative youth."