[178] _On Life_--a religious-philosophic work by Tolstoi, written by him in 1887 and printed in all his collected works. An abbreviation of this work and an exposition of it written in simple language for plain readers was made by an American, Bolton Hall, and was approved by Tolstoi and printed under the title, _Life, Love and Death_. Later a translation of this under the title, _True Life_, appeared in an issue of the Ethical Artistic Library, Moscow, 1899. See article of Bolton Hall in the _International Tolstoi Almanac_ compiled by P. A. Sergienko (Kniga, 1909). [179] See _Letters of L. N. Tolstoi to his Wife_, Moscow, 1913, pages 518 to 519. [180] Tolstoi made a mistake of one year: the battle against the Caucasian mountaineers in which he took part in the capacity of an artillerist, took place February 18, 1853. (See P. Biriukov’s _Biography of Tolstoi_, Volume I, page 226.) Nine years after the above mentioned note, February 18, 1903, Tolstoi wrote to Rusanov: “To-day it is fifty-three years since hostile enemy shells struck the wheel of that cannon which I directed. If the muzzle of the gun from which the shell emerged had deviated 1-10,000ths of an inch to one side or another, I would have been killed and I would no longer have lived. What nonsense. I would have existed in a form now inconceivable to me.” [181] _What Is Art?_ [182] Matthew Arnold (1822–1888), a well-known English poet, critic and student of literature. Shortly before his death, Arnold printed an article in _The Fortnightly Review_, devoted to the critical analysis of _Anna Karenin_ and some of the religious philosophic writings of Tolstoi. (See _Novoe Vremia_, December 11, 1887, the article, “An English Critic on Leo Tolstoi.”) The thought quoted by Tolstoi was expressed by Arnold in his article, “The Problems of Modern Criticisms” (a Russian translation was issued by _Posrednik_). Tolstoi valued the writings of Arnold highly, especially his book, _Literature and Dogma_, of which a Russian translation was published by _Posrednik_ under the title, _Wherein Lies the Essence of Christianity and Judaism_ (Moscow, 1907). [183] Tolstoi, for the sake of an airing, rode about ten versts to a dressmaker, for the dress of Nadezhda Mikhailovna Yushkova. [184] Jules and Leo Edwardovich Konius, the violinist and the pianist. [185] Countess T. L. Tolstoi and Count Mikhail Adamovich Olsuphiev performed two small plays, _Feminine Nonsense_ by I. L. Stcheglov and _The Lady Agreeable In All Respects_. [186] According to the copy in possession of the editors.