_St. Louis Globe-Democrat_: "Count Tolstoy is a man so sure of his message and so clear about it that he always finds something worth while to say.... There is a quality in the little tales published under the title 'Esarhaddon' which is quickly suggestive of certain Biblical narratives. There is one called 'Three Questions,' which contains, in half a dozen pages, an entire philosophy of life, and it is presented in such apt pictures and ideas that its meaning is not to be overlooked. It would be hard to suggest anything that could be read in five minutes that would impart so much to think about. 'Esarhaddon,' the sketch from which the volume takes its name, is of the same character, and the third tale, 'Work, Death, and Sickness,' is full of very fine thought. There is, perhaps, no writer working to-day whose mind is centered on broader and better things than the Russian master, and the present offering shows him at his very best." "Hour-Glass Stories." Dainty 12mo, Cloth, Frontispiece, Ornamental Cover, 40 cents, Postpaid FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, Publishers NEW YORK and LONDON * * * * * What Is Art? Translated from the Original Manuscript, with an Introduction by AYLMER MAUDE Art is a human activity, declares Tolstoy. The object of this activity is to transmit to others feelings the artist has experienced. By certain external signs--movements, lines, colors, sounds or arrangements of words--an artist infects other people so that they share his feelings; thus, "art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling." Without adequate expression there is no art, for there is no infection, no transference to others of the author's feeling. The test of art is infection. If an author has moved you so that you feel as he felt, if you are so united to him in feeling that it seems to you that he has expressed just what you have long wished to express, the work that has so infected you is a work of art. A POWERFUL WORK FULL OF GENIUS AND ORIGINALITY "The powerful personality of the author, the startling originality of his views, grip the reader and carry him, though his deepest convictions be outraged, protesting through the book."--_Pall Mall Gazette._ "The discussion is bound to shake the whole world to its very center, and to result in a considerable readjustment of theories."--_Pittsburg Times._ "It is the ablest and most scholarly writing of a great thinker."--_Chicago Inter Ocean._