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OON after the first appearance of Karma in the columns of The Open Court, several applications to translate the story were received, and the requests granted. Some of these translations have appeared, others may still be expected. A few translations were made without the author's knowledge. A German edition was published by the Open Court Publishing Co. Altogether one Japanese, one Urdu, three German, and two French renderings are at present in the author's possession. It is possible that the story also exists in Icelandic,1 Tamil, Singhalese, and Siamese versions. A Hungarian edition is in preparation.
A Russian translation was made by Count Lec Tolstoy, who recommends the story to his countrymen and sums up his opinion as follows:
"This tale has greatly pleased me both by its artlessness and its profundity. The truth, much slurred in these days, that evil
1An Icelandic translation has been made by the Rev. Matthias Jochumson of Akureyri, Iceland, and must have appeared in the Icelandic periodical of which he is editor, but we do not know whether it has appeared in bookform.
