1 ‘Thoughts on Tolstoy’, New Statesman and Nation, 12 December 1953, 768.
2 See Boguslavski, Bogomoff and Bor, Ocherki po izucheniyu prirody zhivotnykh cheloveka (Yogurt Press, Tashkent, 1936). [The spoof Russian title means ‘Essays on the study of the nature of man’s animals’.]
3 [‘Incidentally did you know that in French there is a charming French word ‘life-struggler’? it is a good clear concept, & I am not sure you don’t rather like that.’ IB to Jenifer Hart, 25 February 1936.]
1 ‘Steaming and perambulating’ in the alternative, but possibly corrupt, text.
2 Not to be confused with bears.
3 Discovered in the recesses of the Third Programme by Professor Knout.
1 Or ‘wring’?
1 Punch, 24 February 1954, 264.
1 The filmmaker Mike Todd of Todd-AO, ‘The Talk of the Town’, New Yorker, 15 January 1955, 20. A card to IB from Fred(erick) Rau dated 23 January 1955 comments: ‘You should be more careful who you talk to & avoid Mr Todd in future.’
2 He died in 2011: see also 15/3.
1 Sergey Konovalov (1899–1982), Professor of Russian, Oxford, 1945–67.
1 ‘Berlin in Autumn’, in Michael Ignatieff and others, Berlin in Autumn: The Philosopher in Old Age (Occasional Papers of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, 16) ([Berkeley, 2000: Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities]), 15. Cf. George Crowder, Isaiah Berlin: Liberty and Pluralism (Cambridge, 2004), 148.
2 Louis MacNeice, ‘Snow’, end of second stanza, which begins: ‘World is crazier and more of it than we think, / Incorrigibly plural.’
1 ‘Thoughts of Taj Mahal will leave you as drunk as a fox’, review of Mark Lilla, Ronald Dworkin and Robert B. Silvers (eds), The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin (New York, 2001: New York Review Books), Times Higher Education Supplement, 30 November 2001, 24–5. The quotation from Lukes is on p. 21 of that book, and that from Berlin on pp. 2–3 of this one.
2 See x/2 above.
3 ‘A Philosophy for Our Time’, AllLearn (Alliance for Lifelong Learning) online course on IB, 2005.
1 ‘Isaiah As I Knew Him’, in Henry Hardy (ed.), The Book of Isaiah: Personal Impressions of Isaiah Berlin (Woodbridge, 2009), 53.
1 Foreword to Isaiah Berlin, The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture under Communism, ed. Henry Hardy (Washington, 2004), xiii.
2 25 September 1980, 67–8 (Bowman, Lieberson and Morgenbesser); 9 October 1980, 44 (Berlin).
3 Jonathan Lieberson and Sidney Morgenbesser, ‘The Choices of Isaiah Berlin’ (the second part of a two-part review of Against the Current), New York Review of Books, 20 March 1980, 31–6, at 36.
1 [Carmina Archilochi: The Fragments of Archilochus (Berkeley, 1964), 64. In transliteration the fragment runs ‘poll’ oid’ al
1 [A very full account of possible interpretations is now available in the article by Paula Correa cited below (114/1).]
2 Lasserre established the text of Archiloque: Fragments (Paris, 1958), but the translations are by André Bonnard, who on p. 54 renders this fragment: ‘Il sait bien des tours, le renard. Le herisson n’en connaît qu’un, mais il est fameux.’
1 [Ernst Diehl (ed), Anthologia lyrica graeca (Leipzig, 1923–5). IB here omits to mention what he reports elsewhere (e.g. 101 above), that it was Asquith who first drew his attention to the fragment.]
2 [Possibly a reference to Herder’s Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit (1784–91), part 3, book 13, chapter 5, ‘The Scientific Practices of the Greeks’, where he writes: ‘Where are the many lost pieces of Archilochus […]?’]
3 In fact ‘Lev Tolstoy’s Historical Scepticism’: see xi above.
4 George Weidenfeld of Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
1 [He did not, however, add it to his translation.]
1 Personal communication, 2012. See also Paula Correa, ‘The Fox and the Hedgehog’, Phaos 1 (2001), 81–92 (see 90–1), revised as ‘A Raposa e o Porco-Espinho (201)’ in id., Um bestiário arcaico: fábulas e imagens de animais na poesia de Arquíloco (Campinas, 2010), 163–78 (see 175–8); and Luca Bettarini, ‘Archiloco fr. 201 W.: meglio volpe o riccio?’, Philologia antiqua 2 (2009), 45–51 at 49.
1 West, op. cit. (1/2), fragments 23 and 196A.
2 ibid. 91 (178).
INDEX
Douglas Matthews
Aeschylus, 79
Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna, 103
Akhsharumov, Nikolay Dmitrievich, 8, 35, 42
Alembert, Jean le Rond d’, 76
Alexander I, Tsar of Russia, 19, 24–5, 27, 31, 72
Anderson, Perry R., 102
Annenkov, Pavel Vasil′evich: and Turgenev’s view of Tolstoy, 6
Annunzio, Gabriele d’, 54
Aquinas, St Thomas, 76, 86
Archilochus, 1, 91, 101, 104, 106–10, 112–15
Aristotle: as ‘fox’, 2, 91
Asquith, Julian Edward George see Oxford and Asquith, 2nd Earl of
Augustine of Hippo, St, 83
Austerlitz, battle of (1805), 18, 60, 72
authority: Maistre’s belief in, 65–6, 87
Bagration, Prince Petr Ivanovich, 18
Balzac, Honoré de, 2
Barrès, Maurice Auguste, 86
Barsotti, Charles, xv
Bartenev, Petr Ivanovich, 53
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 27
Belinsky, Vissarion Grigor′evich: friendship with Botkin, 6
Bennett, (Enoch) Arnold, 9n, 22
Bennigsen, General Levin August Gottlieb Theofil, Count, 21
Bergson, Henri, 34, 100
Berthier, Marshal Louis Alexandre, 72
Bettarini, Luca: ‘Archiloco fr. 201 W.: meglio volpe o riccio?’, 114n
Biryukov, Pavel Ivanovich, 8, 61n
Blake, William, 86
Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, 3
Bonnard, André, 110n
Borodino, battle of (1812), 18–19, 29
Botkin, Vasily Petrovich: view of Tolstoy, 7, 10
bourgeoisie: Marx on self-deception, 30
Bowie, Ewen Lyall, 114–15
Bowle, John Edward: ‘The Owl and the Pussy-Cat’, xv, 97–100
Bowman, John S., 107–10, 112–13
Bowra, (Cecil) Maurice, 113; On Greek Margins, 1n
Boyer, Paul, 20n, 52
Büchner, Friedrich Karl Christian Ludwig, 82
Buckle, Henry Thomas, 33, 48
Burke, Edmund, 35, 87
Cabanis, Pierre Jean Georges, 73
Carlyle, Thomas, 86
Catherine II (‘the Great’), Empress of Russia, 13
Catholics: counter-revolutionaries, 64; Maistre on, 86, 89
Chateaubriand, François René Auguste, vicomte de, 86
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 3
Cherniss, Joshua Laurence, and Henry Hardy: ‘A Philosophy for Our Time’, 106
Chernyshevsky, Nikolay Gavrilovich: and Tolstoy, 48
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith, 84
choice (individual): freedom of, 30, 51, 77, 82; Tolstoy disbelieves in, 30, 32, 77–8
Cobbett, William, 84
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 86