The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-17
Authors Club Gains Tame by Recognizing LarrOvitch

through the open window. He raised him. self with difficulty, leaned one arm, and listened Assassination of Alexander IT. were the unbelievable words that he heard. Alex ander, the great reformer, the liberator of the serfs, had been killed! Falling back upon his pillow he murmured, oh, my poor, blinded countrymen; oh, the folly of it and the shamei You have put out the light of Russia's liberty'-then silence. The great heart of Larrovitch stiled forever"
 The tribute of McCready Sykes. who pointed out Larrovitch's Place in Litera- ture,'' was scintillating piece of mock criti- ciSrn. For instance:
 ''1n 1870, after his return from Paris I.ars rovitch published what is usually, and think rightly, regarded his magnum opus Barin! Barin!'-'Master! Master!-a work so vast, so tersely compact, expressive that it is one of the most elusive most difficult of analysis The strange charactef of Dmitri Trepoff, the old chemist with hf troup of whistling marmots is used as the symbolic leitnlotf. In an old retort froH his laboratory Dmitri has imprisoned tr1S principle of life, and the weird, bizarr& figure moves through the story, transform ing the country group of children with C wave of his curious bottle stealing to the throne room of the Emperor and leaving the bewildered courtiers with blanched faces and quaking knees, the effect of his presence is Incidentally diffusive.' to use George Elfot's phrase"
 Richardson Wright's entertaining contri- button to the symposium was Some Trans
 
 a dozen short extracts from novels in which the Russian author stood forth preeminentIy as a stylist, philosopher and realist The distinguishing feature of George Sidney Hel1man's paper entitled ''Three Incidental Poems of Larrovitch" was Siberian Marching Song"
 Pcttle songs at such time as this when the whole world discusses disarmament are quite likely to be passed over unnoticed yet here is one I should like to commend to the attention of some serious composer as con- tainiT2g such ingredients a S would infame the emotions of creative harmony. The author of The Two Grenadiers" inspired Schurnann For all that the Russian warrior nowadays has been stripped of glamour and shredded of his barbaricalIy picturesque defiance of death in a religious devotion to sovereign and country, Larrovitch's "Siberian March ing Song'' with it's military cadences and sonorous passages of blood and iron, is of the calibre to stir the talents of any musician whose gifts for composition are tnctured strongly with a sense of the dramatic-Vic- tor Herbert for instance.
 It is feeble praise to say that the Five Larrovitch Letters" read by Thomas Walsh are worthy of being made into brochure for general circulation. so charming are they in fancy and so fawless in simple diction.
 The volume containing the papers read at the Authors Club Larrovitch celebration has been supplemented by a chapter on "A Lar rovitch Foundation" by James Howard Brids~ and photographed Notes" compiled by Arthur Cotton. who gives a complete list of the Russians novels in the order of pubIica- ton, with English translation of their titles and synopses of the stories There is also a persuasive table of reference books by Gustave SiuaOnson for students of Rus sian literature who desire to acquaint them selves further with the works of Larro- witch"
 But one fault may be urged with this list of most attractive titles. It Is that not one of the books Is to be obtained h any library in the world.