Leo Tolstoi, Tales from Tolstoi — Preface (1901)
“ Tolstoi, ten years ago, was not nearly so well known in England as he is now, and many of these stories (some of which I was the first to translate) , which have since become famous, then had all the charm of absolute novelty. In course of time these little masterpieces insensibly accumulated synchronously with the growth of the great Russian writer's popularity amongst us, so that I am now able to offer them in volume form to a larger public. ”
