ANNA KARENINA. The world has come to regard Tolstoi's novel,
*family happiness° of the conventionally mar ried couple with the irregular relationship of a married woman and a wealthy count, logically ending in despair and death. It is really two stories in one. The unhappy love-affairs of Prince Stepan Oblonsky and of his sister Anna bring into relief the pure and delicate romance of the Princess Oblonskaya's youngest sister, the Princess Kitty Shcherbiitskaya with Kon stantin Levin, a landed proprietor, a bashful, erratic idealist, uncertain of himself, making all kinds of experiments, dissatisfied, but high minded. In Levin Tolstoi undoubtedly de picted his own nature and it gave him an opportunity to introduce his own observations on philosophy, agronomy and religion. The account of Levin's proposal was taken directly from Tolstoi's wooing of Miss Sophia Beers. Indeed the author frequently drew his details from his own experiences and his characteriza tions from his keen study of his relatives and friends. He painted from real life the gambling scenes, the horse-racing, the death of Levin's disreputable brother, the hunting epi sodes, the quaint and often amusing naivetes of the peasantry. The tragic suicide of Anna Karenina was probably the echo of a tragedy which took place on the r, lway near Tolstoi's country estate,
Polyana.