...Thomas G. Wiener The Tolstoy Home: Diaries of Tatiana Sukhotin-Tolstoy . Translated by Brown Alec . New York : Columbia University Press , 1951 . Pp. 352 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 176 The South Atlantic Quarterly author s familiarity...

...Clarence A. Manning Copyright © 1929 by Duke University Press 1929 COUNT ALEKSYEY KONSTANTINOVICH TOLSTOY CLARENCE A. MANNING Columbia University TO MOST people the name Tolstoy calls to mind the great Tolstoy, Leo, the philosopher, reformer, and novelist, but he was only the most prominent...

...John S. Curtiss Tolstoy: An Approach . By Lavrin Janko . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1946 . Pp. [ iv ], 166 . $2.00 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 528 The South Atlantic Quarterly Tolstoy: An Approach. By Janko Lavrin. New York: The Macmil­ lan Company...

...John Shelton Curtiss Leo Tolstoy . By Simmons Ernest J. . Boston : Little, Brown And Company , 1946 . Pp. Xv , 790 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 594 The South Atlantic Quarterly seeing trip. Everything they show him they relate to poetry...

...Thomas G. Wiener 148 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Epic of Russian Literature: From Its Origins through Tolstoy. By Marc Slonim. New York: Oxford University Press, 1950. Pp. vii, 367. $5.00. This volume is a welcome addition to the growing body of American materials on Russian literature...

...Thomas G. Wiener Book Reviews 155 Tolstoy and China. By Derk Bodde with the collaboration of Galia Speshneff Bodde. Princeton: Princeton University Press, The His­ tory of Ideas Series No. 4, 1950. Pp. vi, no. $2.50. In this little volume Mr. Bodde studies the influence of Chinese re­ ligious...

...Thomas G. Wiener Tolstoi as I Knew Him: My Life at Home and at Yasnaya Polyana . By Kuzminskaya Tatyana A. . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1948 . Pp. xiv , 439 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 488 The South Atlantic Quarterly Tolstoi as I Knew Him...

...Burleigh Taylor Wilkins The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History . By Berlin Isaiah . New York : Simon and Schuster , 1953 . Pp. 86 . $2.50 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 BOOKS The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy s View...

...P. F. Baum Arthur Quiller-Couch: A Biographical Study of Q . By Brittain F. . Cambridge : At the University Press ; New York : The Macmillan Company , 1948 . Pp. xi , 174 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 Book Reviews 489 the prodigious Tolstoi...

... views on music and those of the Confucianists show considerable similarity, the question of the parentage of Tolstoy s views is hard to de­ cide. Mr. Bodde concludes that, while Plato s influence can hardly be contested, the dominant influence seems to be Chinese. Thus in Tolstoy s famous indictment...

... of London life. Perhaps also the book might have benefited from condensation and pruning. ARTHUR B. FERGUSON The Tolstoy Home: Diaries of Tatiana Sukhotin-Tolstoy. Translated by Alec Brown. New York: Columbia University Press, 1951. Pp. 352. $4.00. Tatiana Sukhotin-Tolstoy, Tolstoy s oldest daughter...

... about the ultimate atmosphere prevailing in the troubled Tolstoy household and thus indirectly about Tolstoy and his relations to others will be amply rewarded. The entire Tolstoy family comes to life as seen through the eyes of a perceptive and sensitive member of the family, who was herself...

... of Tolstoyism in Howells s two Utopian tales, A Traveller from Altruria (1894) and Through the Eye of the Needle (1907). Sarah Orne Jewett felt a similar sense of exaltation upon reading the great Russian. I never felt the soul of Tolstoi s work until last night, she wrote ecstatically in 1888. Henry James...

... of eternal life. This was the point of view Howells was to develop into a social philosophy and a more articulate religious position. Among the influences that worked on Howells over the next six years (1879-1885), none was more important than Tolstoi. Howells read Anna Karenina in 1885, and he read My...

... chronologically. His first vol­ ume concludes with 1880, the date generally regarded as the end of the classical period of the Russian novel, which coincides with the death of Turgenev and Dostoevsky and Tolstoy s turning away from belles-lettres. Unfortunately, this method has sometimes the regrettable effect...

... , 1945 . Pp. x , 626 . $5.00 . Rocky Mountain Reader . Edited and with an Introduction by West Ray B. Jr. New York : E. P. Dutton and Company , 1946 . Pp. 436 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 528 The South Atlantic Quarterly Tolstoy: An Approach...

... hope, what a friend you are to us all. It is such faith that made possible a reunited country and such faith alone guaran­ tees its perpetuity in the future. Wm. K. Boyd. Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy. Translated by S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf. New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1922. 159 pp...

... of the novelist: by the indirect power of art rather than by exegesis. If he was never a complete adherent of Part -pour Part, Howells was less doubtful of it than of didacticism. The sermoner had a place in life, but not in fiction. Although he wrote of Tolstoy, I do not believe that in the whole course of my...

... Alfred North , Symbolism, its Meaning and Effect , 95 cents ; Tolstoy Leo , Last Diaries , ed. Stilman Leon , $1.35 ; Moscati Sabatino , Ancient Semitic Civilizations , $1.65 ; Lovejoy Arthur O. , Essays in the History of Ideas , with a foreword by Don Cameron Allen...

... against a back­ ground of the contemporary scene. To the reviewer the first half of the book seemed the more interesting part, perhaps because Tolstoy the sinner is more easily understood than Tolstoy the great moralist. In addition, the endless bickerings between the author s wife and Chertkov, his...