During work, especially if he found some difficulty, Tolstoi used to play patience. This was his habit throughout his life. When he was writing Part III. of _Resurrection_, Tolstoi was undecided for a long time about the fate of Katyusha Maslov. Now he decided that Nekhlyudov should marry her, now that he should not. At last he decided to play a game of patience: if the patience came out, Nekhlyudov should marry her; if not, then he should not marry her. The patience did not come out. Once Tolstoi told me that he had found a passage in a book, which he was writing, very difficult. He hesitated for a long time what to do, but made up his mind and wrote it. Then he decided to test it by means of a game of patience; if the patience came out, that meant that what he had written was good; if it did not come out, then it was bad. The patience did not come out, and Tolstoi said to himself: “Never mind, it is good as it is!” and he left it as he had written it. _May 24th._ Tolstoi was speaking about Dietrich’s German book on Goethe. The author sent him the book and asked him his opinion. Tolstoi said: “It is amazing! So far back as 1824 Goethe wrote that sincerity was become almost impossible in art, because of the multitude of newspapers, journals, and reviews. The artist reads them, involuntarily pays attention to them, and cannot be perfectly sincere. What would he say if he lived now!” THE END _Printed in Great Britain by_ R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, _Edinburgh_. THE HOGARTH PRESS HOGARTH HOUSE, PARADISE ROAD, RICHMOND _FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS_ E. M. FORSTER. Pharos and Pharillon. 5s. A book of essays on Alexandria ancient and modern by E. M. FORSTER, the author of _Howards End_. THE LETTERS OF STEPHEN REYNOLDS. 16s. This volume of letters by the author of _A Poor Man’s House_ and _Seems So!_ has been edited by Mr. HAROLD WRIGHT. TOLSTOI’S LOVE LETTERS. 5s. This book contains the extremely interesting letters written by Tolstoi to a young girl to whom he was engaged for a short time, and which have not previously been translated into English. It also contains a study of the autobiographical elements in the writings of Tolstoi by Tolstoi’s friend and biographer, M. Paul Biryukov. _RECENT PUBLICATIONS_ NEW DOSTOEVSKY. STAVROGIN’S CONFESSION, etc. (The unpublished chapter from “The Possessed,” and the plan of “The Life of a Great Sinner.”) 6s. “This so-called chapter of ‘The Possessed’ is a precious survival. It has value in itself, by reason of the beauty and terror it contains; it has value as throwing light on some of Dostoevsky’s most secret and intimate thoughts ... but its greatest value is as an evidence of the creative process in Dostoevsky.”--_Times Literary Supplement._ JACOB’S ROOM. A New Novel by VIRGINIA WOOLF. Second Impression. 7s. 6d.