The New York herald., 1922-10-08

proletariat." In view of the reorganization
of the universities. the textbooks for the
higher education also need revision. The
work OF rewriting these hundreds Of vol
umes is going steadily forward. Half Of
the $40 contracts for new books recently
signed by the Gosizdat are for school books
Rigid supervision over the texts used in
the classrooms Is one Of the means where
by the State exercises absolute control over
education.
Another important field of activity for
the Gosizdat is the publication of scientific
literature. Three series of scientific books
have been begun. One Is devoted to the
description of Russian territory. with spe-
cial attention to its natural resources. The
natural science. and the third will consist
Of monographs on the problems of modern
science. In collaboration with the Russian
Academy Of Sciences, the Gosizdat will
handle large work describing the present
state and the recent achievements of Rus
sian science and technology. This very
important work VIII be edited by an au-
tononous body. created by the DEGREES of
the commissariat for Education, promul-
gated July Ii and August 2, and is to be
issued in Russian. English and German.
Among the individual scientific treatises
which the Gosizdat has recently accepted
for publication is work by the famous
scientist, Prof. l. P. Pavlov, entitled
Twenty Years Experimentation in the
Objective Study of the Behavior of the
Higher Animals"
These are little more than plans and
promises. For actual accomplishments in
the way OF publishing scientific literature
one must turn to the private firms 1t is
to such firm. for example that we owe
the ponderous volume on collective Re-
fexology" by the foremost Russian neu-
rologist, Bekhterev. and Sorokin's import
ant contribution to sociological literature
Also most of the works of literary scholar
ship. as. for instance. the recent additions
to Pushkiniana, can be traced to the door
Of the private publisher.
The Gosizdat is the publisher of the
large literary magazine KreSndyd NoU
(Red Virgin Soil) and of the equally large
photographed and critical review The
two reviews devoted to the history of the
revolutionary movement in Russia and the,
Communist revolution. Further it is
planning the publication of a review dedi-
Gated to the arts. Before the war about
eighty scientific and technical journals
were issued in Russia. Accor ling to the
interview mentioned above. the list of these
periodicals has haen reviSad and SoY,oe
twenty of them win be resumed immedi-
ately. Several Of these special publications
have already been revived under the revo-
lutiohary aegis. The historical field is the
richest in this respect Here one finds
several new reviews of the highest stand
ard Of scholarship One of the most recent
additions to the journals of special scope
is The Neto East. issued by the Society for
the Study Of the Orient The political i'm
port of Russia's interest in the East is
obvious. The opening editorial of this
magazine insists that Moscow is the Mecca
for the enslaved nations OF the Orient. A
knowledge of the East the editor argues
is therefore incumbent upon Russia, upon
whom history has imposed the responsible
mission of being the teacher and leader of
backward peoples in their struggle for
emancipation"
Belleslettres are not ignored by the
Gosizdat. although most of the imaginative
prose and the thin sheaves of verse in
paper covers are issued by professional
associations Of writer's and also by private
mn ha