TWO NOTABLE BOOKS ON RUSSIA. 

1. AUTOUR DU MOUJIK. By Raoul Labry. (Paris: Payot.) 12 francs. 
2. MEMORIES OF RUSSIA, 1916-1919. By Princess Paley. (Herbert Jenkins.) 12s. 6d.

(Reviewed by OLGA NOVIKOFF.) 

For anyone who wishes to compare Russia as she was with what she has become, I can strongly recommend these two volumes. The first has, however, an unfortunate title. We Russians never speak of our peasants as “moujiks,” which is a name that has been applied to them only by foreigners. Apart from this little blemish I can recommend the book. The author’s method of showing to the reader the life of the country is to make the peasant describe it himself, which is in itself a charming innovation. That the Bolsheviks should have pillaged his library and made cigarette paper of his literary notes does not astonish me in the least, for that is what they have done with all that is worth preserving. What a change from the peaceful pages of M. Labry to the anguish and tragedy of the present day as shown by Princess Paley. As regards the statements made in her much-debated volume, people can have confidence in her word.