HIS BUFFER.
Countess Tolstoy, like so many wives of famous men, seems to have been the buffer between her husband and the world, and the. power, that made it possiblo for tho great teacher to carry out his ideas. "In tho ordinary affairs of life," soys Mr. Bernard' Shaw, in a review of Mr. Aylmcr Maude's "Lifo of Tolstoy," "ho shirked every uncongenial responsibility, whilst availing himself of every luxury he really cared for. And he railed at his wife and family for enabling him to do it, treating liis s wifo as ethically inferior because she insisted on saving the family from ruin, until at last she gave .hini up as impossible, and managed for him without saying anything harsher than- her Russian- formula, 'Nothing matters, so long as the baby is not crying.' " ' ,■■■:.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1168, 1 July 1911, Page 16
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