TOLSTOI'S SECRETARY.
BANISHED FROM RUSSIA. By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (Received August 26, 8.30 a.m.) , LONDON, August 25. Count Tolstoi's secretary, Goosef, has been banished from Russia for distributing Tolstoi's books, on the ground that they are revolutionary. [Tolstoi is the greatest of Russian novelists, the prophet of renunciation and absolute obedience to Christian' precept. ' 'AnnaVKfirenina' I placed him with the Jnastere'of fiction; his later writings have shown . him to be the most uncompromising opponent of civilisation and coercive government. In '1901 he vnh excommunicated by the Russian Church for unortbodoxy.]
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13993, 26 August 1909, Page 2
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90TOLSTOI'S SECRETARY. Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13993, 26 August 1909, Page 2
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