New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
The Sunday Tribune's News ann Rev.e.s g p1=
Reviews and Comment
BY Burton Raacoe

HE facts IL appears these H. 1862 Count Leo To
already famous stories recorded in h
Il am in love- as did was possible To be n love
madman; I'll shoot myself if The next dav
sad Tomorrow as as get shall everything
aos myself On September handed written nonosa, -
ae Sophie Andreevna Bs daughter of court physician
Sophie Andreevna pretty we'll educated she had grad
aid with honors in literature some Of her work nub
she spoke Russian French German, italian, later English
cpe married September They settled on the counr
yasnaya Poyanas where during long period Of happy married
81 oy wrote other things Cossack and awar and
The COUNTESS him thirteen ubon
she helped her husband manuscripts proofs and oon
With the increase Of the family duties exhausted
of her strength rift appeared 1874 when o lost
his children and aged and loved He began
pk for consolation IN some faith he could cling seeking for
auth became acute He contemplated hanging himself
spirit rejected the existing religions progress science arr family
growing stronger and Nkoaevich and he was be-
coming gmier and gloomer" quest was soretbinp che could m
He had not tagged after him she had
deprived of these hazardous sprt by the
keeping and caring for her children The
wdened Tolstoy gadfy cruel one
he thought of taking peasant woman worker ON the
of secretly going away with the peasants to start now life
confessed this to me- He did away poor
racked by the o'clock in the
ng Nikoaevich came back and without coming TO me law
the couch study spite of my cruel
ran down to him; he gloomy nothing to me- At
sn that morning our daughter Alexandra was h s
forget that terrible bright night with the idea
hat should live true early Christian e away his money and
property poor work the land peasant fashion No
thought quite properly that
it well enough for him so quxotc but she whose
Strength chdbearing would have tbereb hee
add to drudgery of WASHING and
ng the land Tolstoy ear in one ebert
m appears Countess Tostoys testimony "a h
aer not designing figure tormented old man
withdrawal from his family Of Cherto Countess Tosov became
Hoent jealous Tooy no longer confded in her and the -
conferences between confesses obouev IN nrvng
uh Totoy and eavesdoppn Tostoy proposed deed
ar and she with bit Of theatricais d +
wish to hand that the creature nearest TO vou
10 and shall nothng course though the prop
m Tosoy eyes, it was not evil her ewes. and tho d
trupm and that II lost The ena -
tragic Tolsoy went The records Countess Toov, in
this book Ttoys side of notaion he made ON the train
should be together.
Throughout this agical little life story runs an unreason
able injustice The unhappy when she wrote it that
hah but
been injured wfuy and cruelty Tosoy by others It is with
@ o. neng herself rather than of jufyng (and
she needed jusfcaon) that to write this aubio
p Toward the end terrible feminine
final triumph of revenge. 81 sba1, not dh a,
oaechs going will be written about
s no soi noa7 the real 5iograpers try find
dramatic story Of woman married to no.n h
gadfy genius brief spell his concerns newt
ably were not hers for the important the goadng thing his life
inner necessity something she cond not ~ ~
its vctm know except the only thing that nattered
y was mad he cruel he tyranncal pa
escape upon him. and absolution Tb fear masses And
pity for her rises in but doubt what
gnt to do Before one subscribes moral to this story:
Young beware marrying genius let me observe that
Countess Tostoy that though her life was at times
M was interesting and that there happiness
Mould have overbalanced all else.
THE CROCK OF GOLD" (Macmlan by Stephens new
shon Illustrated by Wied Jones' pofoundest
works of philosophy written philosophy
urdiy and Stays gravity with SMILE 1t book should
delight all intelligence
peculiarly Irish and en say grave irresponsible
and sagacou capricous, wis humored
Tongue check MEN, nimble witted
writer builds carefully after another the
ee arguments for religious ah for for earnestne
for WISDOM for ignorance for notion, faith and
l and then skaters each into bits with sudden of
auga1er lts beautiful
nou In its facets variable fe like
wherein will find what seeking matter what it
~ he crock OF gold at the end of the rainbow.
: RossETTl AND CIRCLE" doubleday Page) by Max
characteristic preface to this delicious book Of drawings
comments you
e In that apologize still profusey But
nuned though heard Of
victoria Rosset belonged hahough he indeed born
years before and died of it after over Here
VII and appreciative
@ " his love lies 1t Rosset the bulky dreamy
and his little circle of beauty worshipper pathe
P odds with prosaic uiarian environment, who
g the midVctoans Mr. Beerbohms admiration and
and for that view them with satc humor
ADDS rather their uster He has been
each picture precisely ones idea Of that
the times they depict Here
and dimnutive Swinburne waspwasted, with OF