Excerpt from What to Do?: Thoughts Evoked by the Census of Moscow Books which are prohibited by the Russian Censor are not always inaccessible. An enterprising publish ing-house in Geneva makes a specialty of supplying the natural craving of man for forbidden fruit, under which heading some of Count L. N. Tolstoi's essays belong. These essays circulate in Russia in manu script; and it is from one of these manuscripts, which fellpinto the hands of the Geneva firm, that the first half of the present translation has been made. It is thus that the Censor's omissions have been noted, even in cases where such omissions are in no way indicated in the twelfth volume of Count Tolstoi's collected works, published in Moscow. As an interest ing detail in this connection, I may mention that this twelfth volume contains all that the censor allows of My Religion, amounting to a very much abridged scrap of Chapter X. In the last-named volume as known to the public outside of Russia. The last half of the present book has'not been published by the Geneva house, and omissions cannot be marked. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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