Arizona republican., 1917-07-23

C"The Russian Revolution by Isaac Don Levine; Harper & Brothers. New York; net s1, at Berryhills.) Whats the use of reading a novel when there is such book to be had as Don Levines Russian Revolution The Bookman sat up half the night to finish this fascinating resume of the episodes leading up to and including the eliminating overthrow of Czarism. Don Levine is foreign news editor of the New York Tribune. His book may not sell with the seven best sellers, but it should If there is any page in history that surpasses in fascination the story of Rasputin. the morally de- generate Siberian who was the great power behind the throne of Russia and | who, in the end. met deserved death at the hands of the infuriated nobility. but too late to save the house of Rom anoff it is hard to say where it may | be found.
 The author takes up the story of the | revolution over 100 years before the revolution itself. Only in this way is it | possible to determine the cause of the
 domestic conflagration which more l than a century later. burned the throne l from beneath the weakling who sur
 rendered it to the revolutionists. The great historical narrative covers the | entire period and concludes with the
 graphic story of the final uprising and | the subsequent organization of the
 new democracy.
 No keener insight into conditions in
 Russia may be secured by the stay at | home American than by reading Don
 Levines book and those who do read I it will have better understanding or what is transpiring in the kingdom of
 ''the Bear who walks like a man" than
 those who neglect this opportunity. | cover the Border" by Herman
 Whitaker; Harper x Brothers, New
 York; $40 net, at BerryhilIsD | Herman Whitaker has written a bor- der story which will have an equally strong appeal with those he has done
 before. The author lays his scenes in l Mexico, that little understood country which, so far as the average citizen of the United States is concerned might be on the Balkan peninsula, for all he knows of it.
 The story has it's love motif, lots of
 exciting episodes and is, altogether,
 a very fascinatingly plotted yarn which holds the reader through it's convinc-
 ing and impelling style
 l C'The Land of Deepening Shadows" by D. Themas Curtin; George H.
 Doran company, New York; s150 net,
 at Berryhills)
 | "The Land of Deepening Shadows"
 is, of course, Germany, where MT. Cur
 tin, another newspaper man now safely
 domiciled in England, has spent much time since the start of the war and which he treats from the aspect it pre- | gpntS l pff ha iat
 MT. Curtin believes that it is only a
 question of how long the German peo-
 pie can stand the pronounced form"
 Of siege before they revolt" the
 quoted words being MT. Curtins own
 The author admits that he does not Ike German autocracy very well but he | also claims that his narrative is the sheer. cold truth" about German con-
 ditions. If it is snch a narrative then conditions in Germany are very bad | indeed
 | Mir. Curtin tells in interesting man | ner Of the effort to shackle the corre- spondents left in Germany by making
 them pledge themselves to stay there | through the war. He made no such pledge and says he suffered accord ingly. It is book which will apepal
 to all students of inner stories of con- tions in the varous War-ridden coun-
 tries. Hot from the pen of the writer ana done While his impressions were 1resh, 1t indicates that affairs in Ger
 many are far from being in condi- ton satisfactory to the German peo- pie, to put if mildly.
 | q <. 6
 tGlacler National Park" by Ma
 thilde Edith Holtz and Katharine Isa-
 bel Semis; George H. Doran company, New York; net s2. at Berryhill's.) Tn vague way those wno have never visited the Glacier National park be-
 lieve that it is some sort of a wonder land like Yellowstone or Yosemite Those who read this book will find that 1t is probably the most wonderful