$4.50, This is an interesting and well set~ up little guide book, containing over Ally excellent photographs, which by themselves are worth the cost of the book. It Is of a convenient size and shape to slip easily into a traveller's pocket, and its general lay-out, with the rounded corners to its pages, is quite attractive. The whole sup; an unpretentious but suMelently com Drehensive groundwork for the anti-harlan knowledge which the casual visitor needs in order to appreciate these huge and strange ruins with Tog ihe consonant with the Daler ithe Saree paulign" am wich eat Pathe) wae ier eir eet ofer ier eir eet ofer 'The diseased and hysterical mind of Countess 'Tolstoy was obsessed with the idea that' Chertkov was fullly of preventing her participa Hon in her husband's activities, It evident from hor diaries thst this obsession excluded all else from her mind and drove her into actions of the wildest extravagance. Nor was Chertkov blameless in the quarrel Between them. "From the end of July 1910 Tolstoy himself kept two diaries, a large one which was. given to Chertkov to copy and a small one "for myself alone" Among the entries in the secret diary none are more poignant than those relating to the making of a formal will to me sure that his works should become public property. After the will was Made Tolstoy" constantly" felt. the inconsistency of applying to legal authority for the execution of the will 'These doubts were still present at the time of his last illness in' November.
The Flight in the Night 1910 Tolstoy completed his. eighty-second year and tranquillity was. essential to bim. Finally, in October he fled in the night. Tolsio som Hiya gives w review of the sit his io Aller 1910 the Countess Tolstoy lived on at Yasnaya Polyana till her death In 1919, Her nervous system recovered somewhat but was never fully restored.
The English edition of this book hasan excellent introduction by Aylmer Maude, the translator of Tolstoy's works, as well as an inter~ pre live introduction by Count Tol-Sloy's eldest son, Sergius, editor of the diaries. The appendices contain relevant loiters and the ample footnotes are invaluable aids. These diaries will stand as a unique record of Tolstoy's last year—raan,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.