The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-26

upbeavnl" portrayed the background
and facts OF the Russian revolution
OF March 1917. 1.-THE Russian nolsho.
Ylk Revolution" covered the period
from tho first revolution 10 the trl.
umph OF the second, the present vol.
ume brings the amazing story down
10 the present time,
The author IL not In tho very least
a partisan. Ito recountH with COM
plete unoonecrn as 20 their effect
fpeta damaging 20 the bolaheyifs and
facts damaging 20 their assnllnnih.
Ho n not trying TO make out a caro-.
do lashos with soorn the bolsheyint
claim 90 have broken the resistance
OF the central empires IN 1918. and
then exposes with equal relentless.
ness tho falsehood and hypocrisy that
lay behind allied military intervrn.
ton In Russia. In ono chapter he
lists and refutes nearly 90 lies circu'
lated Ia allied countries In order 10
secure popular support for their In.
teryentlonlst policy.
His revelation OF the horrors Of the
civil war IN Siberia dSoloh6O may
cost the reader some sleep. especially
lbs picture OF tho hundred thousand
women and children frozen 90 death
IN tho 60 stalled trains on the Trans.
Siberian railroad.
While Prof Ross regards bolshe.
vism as a rash experiment which
could not but end IN economic fail
ure. he exposes with scathlng
veraeity and biting irony tho repeat.
ca ondeavors OF the allied govern.
ments TO strnngie the Russian expert.
ment without giving Il chance and
az tho gnme time 70 conceal from
their people what they wero doing.
DOROTHY DATNTYs CASTLE"
Amy Brooks Lothrop. Leo & Shop
ard.
The Dorothy Dainty Books have
been such surprising favoritcs with
girls from 20 10 that they viii DO
glad 10 acc 'just one more" Dorothy
lives in tho "stone House." and q
thrilled with tho idea Of castle.
wildly presented in a story told By
her father. What more natural than
that stone stable. forced 10 tho
background by a new garage. should
DO turned into a castle. drawbrldgo
and ALE And what good times the
queen Of all young book girls and
her friends do have with 81
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Garrett: Dutton a Co.
afr. Garrett has here given Va a
grim and powerful drama OF human
hats and love. with steel and iron
making as It's background.
A "clnder buggy" Is the two
wheeled bow.iegEed tub in which this
alag OF tho iron furnace ia taken
away 10 the dump. and with this ugly
but necessary convenience as a sym
Dol he has interviewed tho romano,
OF steel and the romance OF human
emotion.
Tor his knowledge OF stark life. Of
passion stripped OF scntlmentall,y. oi
the central forces that move human
ny. Mr.. Garrett 10 akin 10 Hardy ant
Dostocvaky but In hin full and dc
tailed knowledge OF great basic in
dustry he Is altogether n modern
, American. Tho combination IL hmaz
ms In originality and dynamic power
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open ALL NIGHT" Paul Nor
and: Thomas Settler.
with the possible exception Of Mar
Gel Proust--who was one Of Nor
and's heartiest admlrcrs-Paul Nor
and IN the best known Of tho modcrI
French writer's outside OF his owl
country. He IL certainly the mos
gifted interpreter OF what is typica
OF postwar civilization. Morant
knows Manhattan and Brooklyn n
thoroiy as no knows Paris. Rome
conntautlnople.
Thru the capitals OF Europe h,
passcs, recording with immense gust
tho stories OF tho exotic character
tho adventurous may meet Their,
after shutdown. There II Dona Rene
dos. widow OF tho martyred Catalan
syudicallst: the little lady OF the six