Note 135 — PART XVII
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E. H. Crosby was for some time a member of the New York State Legislature; subsequently he went to Egypt as a judge in the Mixed Tribunals. While there he began reading the works of Tolstoy, which had a great influence upon him. He visited Tolstoy, and afterwards co-operated with him in various ways. In a remarkable essay on “Shakespeare and the Working Classes” E. H. Crosby drew attention to the consistently anti-democratic tendency of that poet’s plays. It is to this essay that Tolstoy here refers.—A. M.