[380] Sinet, an artist, who refused military service on religious grounds and was sent to the Algerian disciplinary battalion and who escaped from there. Tolstoi called Sinet the first religious Frenchman, therefore, because he was the first Frenchman he met who believed truly as he did. [381] In his letter to V. G. Chertkov of July 9, 1899, Tolstoi wrote, “The matter of the translations worry me. I can imagine, therefore, how they worry you. To-day I thought this: To drop all contracts with the translators and print the following in the newspaper....” Further on Tolstoi expounds the project of his letter to the newspapers, that he, in the matter of translation, decided to destroy the contracts with the publishers of the translations and to refuse the royalty of the first printing of these translations. And yet the need of the Dukhobors was so great that “having no means of employing cattle, they have hitched themselves and their wives to the plough and are ploughing with human power to till their land.” For this reason, Tolstoi drops his plan: “I ask all the publishers who will print this novel and the translators of it, as well as the readers of the novel, to remember those people for whom this publication has been begun and as far as their strength and their desire go, to help the Dukhobors by giving their mite to the Dukhobor fund in England.” [382] Taking no part in 1899, in the work of organising help for the famine-stricken peasants, Tolstoi directed the contributions received for this purpose from various people, to be sent to those who were occupied on the spot in giving help to the inhabitants. [383] Originally in English. [384] This thought was maintained in the book then being read by Tolstoi: _Vergleichenden Uebersicht der Vier Evangelien_, von S. G. Verus, Leipzig, 1897. In the letter of Biriukov of August 1, 1899, Tolstoi wrote thus about the significance of Verus’ book: “This supposition or probability is the destruction of the last suburbs which are susceptible to attacks from the enemy, so that the fortress of the moral teaching of the good, flowing not from a source which is only temporary and local, but from a totality of the whole spiritual life of humanity, be unshaken.” [385] Countess S. N. Tolstoi. [386] See Note 384. [387] This thought is developed more in detail by Tolstoi in the _Legend of the Stones_ (see _The Reading Circle_, Volume II). [388] Alfred B. Westrup. _Plenty of Money._ N. Y., 1899. [389] Countess O. C. Tolstoi, born Dieterichs, first wife of A. L. Tolstoi. [390] The artist, Julia Ivanovna Igumnov, who lived a long time in Yasnaya Polyana. At this time she helped Tolstoi to copy his manuscripts and his letters. [391] A. D. Arkhangelsky, a student in the Moscow University, who lived as a teacher in Tolstoi’s house. [392] These chapters on _Resurrection_ were sent to the publishing house of _Niva_ to be set up. [393] An interrogation point in the copy at the disposal of the editors.