Evening star., 1933-07-16
REV|EW( c. T THE NEW B0OK(

also has in his family Thelma, stepdaughter
brought him by his third wife, and her husband
Allen. an impecunious lawyer. who is always
talking about his collection cases" Into the
family comes Louise, the stranger" Grandpa's
own granddaughter, from New York, separated
from her husband. When they hear OF her
expected arrival Beatrice, the niece by mar
riage looked at Thelma. the stepchild; their
eyes met and held and made a covenant
But the covenant is never carried out.
Grandpa attends to that He attends 10
everything even to the memoranda he gives
to his unique hired man, Simon: There Is
gallon of corn whisky in my trunk IN the
attic Drink it the evening of the thls)
funeral" Louise coming for visit, finds
an unexpected championship with her grand
father from whom her father had been alien
ated for a lifetime.
She also discovers in herself love for the
Iowa country and the farm, in spite of the
fact that peace it not there. And the love
which suddenly. disconcertingly, reveals itself
between her and the neighboring young farmer,
Guy Crane. brings little happiness to her.
Guys little boy, Widdie. is a rare child.
Without understanding what it is all about.
he knows instinctivey that mis- mother is un-
happy and puts his scraps of childish reason
ing together to remedy matters. Grandpa.
who draws to himself our chief interest
throughout provides most dramatic
clusion to all the family intrgues. He Is
notable addition to the group of original old
men Of fiction.
THE WHITE ARMIES OF RUSSIA. A
Chronicle of Counter Revolution and Allied
Intervention. By George Stewart. New
York The Macmillan Company.
THE bolshevik re-olution, its causes and the
long series of steps leading to it. its results.
SO much more lasting and deep than seemed
likely at the time, have been written about to
the saturation point. but comparatively little
has been published about the efforts to thwart
that revolution. Mr.. Stewart claims that his
book is the first account in any language
which attempts to describe all the anti-bol-
shevlk organizations and campaigns. His first
chapter gives the background of the bolshevik
revolution and is Of the nature of prepara-
tory summary. He then attacks his main SUBJ
ject. beginning with the leadership of Kornilov
and the organization of the volunteer army.
with the opening of civil
The hope OF the whites was allied interven-
ton. Their numbers included the nobility.
officers of the army and navy, the professional
classes, the church, landowners and manufac-
turers, coSsack communities, whose large lber-
ties and soldierly training made them antpa-
thetic to town-made radicalism,' and large
numbers Of the peasantry illiterate but still
loyal to car and church. ReactionarieS
and liberals, with quite differing ideals
united in the white movement but the lead
Kolchak, and Wrangel-were all under reac-
tionary influences. although Kornilov AleSeyev
and Denikin were Of lowly origin and demo-
cratic tendencies. The civil war Is followed IN
South and North Russia and Siberia, from
1917 to the fall Of the curtain with the de-
feat of the army of Wrangel and the with
drawal of allied assistance.
Mr. Stewart considers allied Intervention q
mistake. Foreign intervention, usually with the
threat of invasion almost always has the effect
Of uniting nationalist elements. At first the
excuse for Intervention was to keep Russia in
the World War on the Eastern Front against
Germany, but after the signing of the armis-
uce, this excuse was lacking. The measures
of Intervention undertaken by the United
States did as much good and far less harm
than those of other foreign nations. whose
motives were probably not entirely disinterested.
The white emigres have kept up a semblance
Of organization in foreign countries but with
the death Of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevitch,
it has become very weak. The sympathies OF
Mr.. Stewart, though he does not obtrude them,
are obviously inclined toward the bolsheviks.