A new translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude, specially approved by the author. This book relates the author's own experiences, sensations, and reflections during the most noted siege of modern history. The translation has been authorized by Count Tolstoy, who has specially commended it for its accuracy, simplicity, and directness. "No other modern book approaches 'Sevastopol' in the completeness and directness with which it unveils the realities of war. There are picturesque glimpses in Mr. Kipling's vulgar stories of fighting. But the strongest meat Mr. Kipling can provide is milk for babes beside Count Tolstoy's seemingly casual sketches, which yet comprehend with merciless amplitude the whole atmosphere of war."--_The Morning Leader_, London. What Count Tolstoy Says of the Translators and Translation "Better translators, both for knowledge of the two languages and for penetration into the very meaning of the matter translated, could not be invented." Of their translation of Sevastopol, Tolstoy also says: "I think I already wrote you how unusually the first volume of your edition pleases me. All in it is excellent: the edition and the remarks, and chiefly the translation, and yet more the conscientiousness with which all this has been done." Handsomely printed on deckle-edge paper, gilt top, photogravure portrait of Tolstoy from a daguerreotype taken in 1855, map of Sevastopol; cover design in gold, extra-quality ribbed olive cloth, 325 + xlviii. pp. $1.50. (_This book is not for sale by us in Great Britain._) FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, Publishers NEW YORK and LONDON * * * * * _Three New Stories by Count Leo Tolstoy, Written for the Benefit of the Kishinef Sufferers. Publisher's and Author's Profits are to go to the Kishinef Relief Fund_ ESARHADDON King of Assyria, and Other Stories _By_ COUNT LEO TOLSTOY _Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude, with an Introduction Containing Letters by Tolstoy_ =Esarhaddon, King of Assyria.= An allegorical story with an Oriental setting, telling how a cruel king was made to feel and understand the sufferings of one of his captives, and to repent his own cruelty. =Work, Death, and Sickness.= A legend accredited to the South American Indians, showing the three means God took to make men more kind and brotherly toward each other. =Three Questions.= A quaint folk-lore tale answering the three questions of life: "What is the Best Time?" "Who Are the Most Important Persons?" "What Thing Should be Done First?" OPINION OF THE PRESS