The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-20

l ter faced eternity''-and swiftly looked away again.
 RUNAWAY RUSSIA ''as
 By Florence Mcleod Harper Illustrated by Donald Thompson. The Century
 company. publishers, New York city.
 rms book presents the Russian revo-
 luton as seen through a woman's eyes. and with special reference to the cata-
 clysn as it affected women. A woman
 sees things, of course, that escape
 mans eyes and Mrs. Harper was in
 the thick of the revolution from it's be- ginning until the passing of Kerensky Moreover, the book is the reaction of an American to the stupendous event.
 Runaway Russia" is an achievement of the first order. It is nothing short of stroke of luck that an American woman with the special equipment of Mrs. Harper was on the scene to catch the tremendous, fascinating event as it happened, and set it down on paper What was the special equipment of the author? She is a trained newspaper correspondent and a veteran campaigner; so she plunged into the midst of tur- bulance and violence, and with her eyes and ears alert for story of proportions truly magnificent. But that is not all 1: she has the dramatic instinct the art ists eye for color and movement and proportion, and the literary craftsman's S feeling for the right word to get to the reader the right shade of meaning; and so Runaway Russia not only presents the colossus in it's epic struggle for free dom but tells the story with narrative sweep that is breath-taking, and with vivid flashes that print upon the read CTS imagination pictures that he will never forget.
 Runaway Russia, is one of the most important contributions to the literature of the war, and the Century company counts itself fortunate in being able to
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