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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21216, 10 December 1938, Page 12

It is reported from New York that a crllection of notes and unpublished poems by Walt Whitman has been discovered in an old trunk in the storerooms of the Library of Congress, Wasnington. Dr. Joseph Auslander, who made the discovery, came across a library index card which listed a seemingly unknown Whitman item. The directions on the card eventually led him to the trunk, which had been purchased from Whitman’s landlord after the poet’s death. No author had a more indefatigible champion than Tolstoy found in Mr Aylmer Maude, who died recently in London. Two things in particular never failed to arouse Mr Maude’s wrath, writes “Peterborough,” in the “The Daily Telegraph.” One was the frequent publication of a picture said to be that of his hero. It showed a bearded man in a loose gaberdine, w T ith a long staff in his hand. This was invariably described as “Tolstoy in a rough moujik • costume made by his own hands.” As • Mr Maude never tired of pointing out, the picture was not of Tolstoy, but of a Russian beggar, first published as an illustration to an American edition of his works. The other point which always annoyed Mr Maude was to see Tolstoy’s name spelt “Tolstoi.” Tolstoy himself, Mr Maude once told me, intensely disliked this spelling, which was the French transiteration of his name, erroneously adopted by his earliest English translators.