By COUNT LEO. TOLSTOÏ.
Translated from the Russian by NATHAN HASKELL DOLE.
Royal 12mo, 750 pp., $1.75.
"As you read on you say, not, 'This is like life,' but,
'This is life.' It has not only the complexion, the very
hue, of life, but its movement, its advances, its strange
pauses, its seeming reversions to former conditions, and its
perpetual change, its apparent isolations, its essential
solidarity. It is a world, and you live in it while you
read, and long afterward; but at no step have you been
betrayed, not because your guide has warned or exhorted you,
but because he has been true, and has shown you all things
as they are."--_W. D. Howells, in Harpers' Monthly._
"The power of this book lies in the author's supreme control
of the influences which affect human action, in his vivid
apprehension of the operation of inexorable law, in his
intuitive knowledge of the action and reaction of spiritual
conditions. With a noble art he throws against the shadow,
that deepens ever to the end, a radiant soul development
that serenely grows brighter till we know it is Tolstoï
himself, his experience, his best. It is a great book, and
of such creations the most sincere admiration falls sadly
short of fitting expression."--_Washington Post._
"The effect of the whole is stimulating and elevating. The
book is certainly one of decided genius."--_New York
Tribune._
"It is difficult to speak of this noble book without
incurring the suspicion of extravagance."--_New York
Examiner._
"Will take rank among the great works of fiction of the
age."--_Portland Transcript._
"Characterized by all the breadth and complexity, the
insight, and the profound analysis of
'Middlemarch.'"--_Critic, New York._
"It is not undue praise to say that, since the publication
of Goethe's 'Elective Affinities,' no such relentless
analysis of the human emotions, and of the action and
reaction of social relations, has appeared as is shown in
Count Tolstoï's novel, 'Anna Karénina.'"--_Boston
Traveller._