23 SEPTEMBER 1960, page 36

Different

Ws odd to learn that, of the bulk of these pages, a publisher's reader once wrote: 'I have read these chapters with very little interest and a good deal of disgust.' It's odd,......

An Impossible Marriage ?

Married to Tolstoy. By Cynthia Asquith. (Hutchinson, 30s.) THE bother with the story of the Tolstoys' mar- riage is that everything is on such an uncomfort- able scale. Tolstoy,......