REMARKABLE PROPHECY BY TOLSTOY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 58, 4 November 1914, Page 2

REMARKABLE PROPHECY BY TOLSTOY.

Early last year the Chicago Tribune published a description by Countess Xastasia Tolstoy, u grandniece of the

count, of a startling and terrifying prophecy to which he gave utterance towards the qlosc of his life. This description is said to have been the result of a request made by the Kaiser and our own King through the Tsar, and the countess lias published it, as she has heard that it is to .be included in a volume of Royal private memoirs. Tolstoy pictures the nations following commercialism under the guise of a beautiful and baneful woman, carrying three torches—war, hypocrisy, and law. From tire outbreak of the “great conflagration,” starting “about 1912, set by the torch of the first arm in the countries of South-eastern Europe,” ho sees nothing but calamity and bloodshed until the year 1925. “The end of the great calamity will mark a new political era for the Old World. There will be left no empires and kingdoms, but the. world will form a federation of the lj luted State of Nations. There will remain only four great giant:; the Anglo-Saxons, the Latins, ' the Slavs, and the Mongolians.” Before tliai consummnl ion is reached, (his curious document foretells the coming of “a. strange figure from the north a now Napoleon”—who will dominate Europe, and after that the advent of a groat reformer, who will restore the belief in “God, soul, spirit, airl immortality,” wbicb will have roamed to influence men’s actions during the period inaugurated by the outbreak of war in 1912.