COUNT TOLSTOI.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 14398, 4 January 1911, Page 3

COUNT TOLSTOI.

DISAGREEMENT WITH HIS WIFE. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, Jan. 3. M. Boulanger, Tolstoi’s intimate friend, in a fonr-column article in The Times, ascribes Tolstoi’s sudden impulse to sook solitude to his wife’s growing demands. Ho adds: “Tolstoi agreed to entrust her with his diary. Ho also agreed that Tchertkoff, his old comrade and disciple, should not visit the house, and that ho would neither meet nor correspond with Tchertkoff; yet whenever he returned from his accustomed ride he was overwhelmed with reproaches and accused of secretly meeting him. The culmination was reached on hearing his wife, who believed him asleep, enter his study and lx .jin to search his papers.”