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own satisfaction that the Jew "founds the
doctrine of Marxism." That he is sincere in
his belief that the race problem is fundamental
for Germany's future cannot be doubted. Thus
if we review all the of the German
collapse, the final and decisive one is seen to
be the failure to realize the racial problem and
more especially, the Jewish menace His idea
of the state. even if it is purged of Jews, is
not democratic or representative one. Uni
versal suffrage and the rule of majority play
no part in the scheme, one man should make
decisions Under Hitler's IDEAS carried out for
a sufficient length of time. women would recede
to the position occupied by them before
feminist movement heard of. They would
become citizens, rather than subjects OF the
state, only through marriage or special grant.
Their usefulness to the state consists only in
chid-bearing and presumably, in waving the
Nal flag. Unrestricted reproduction is de-
structive Of the state, which must declare
unfit to beget children any one who is clearly
diseased or has hereditary disabilities, and back
up its decision with action" The army is the
final and highest school Of national instruc-
ton" for every man, and Hitler does not in
tend the German army merely for marching
and standing at attention. Are the German
people back Of Hitler? Apparently they are.
FIRST TO GO BACK. An Aristocrat in Soviet
Russia. BY Trina Skariatina. Indianapolis:
The Bobbs- Merrill Co.
THE aristocratic world of Countess Irina
] Skariatina, now the wife of Victor F. Blakes-
lee, lieutenant United State Navy, retired,
ended with the bolshevik revolution. What that
great overturning Of the old order Of the
Tsarist regime meant to her and her family
she has told in her two previous books, "A
World Can End" and "A World Begins" Liv-
ing now in the United States, she horrifed
many of her friends when she began her ef-
forts to return to her native land for visit,
which they thought might probably end in q
Soviet prison. She had been imprisoned before,
in 1922 and had been sentenced to death for
protesting against the desecration OF churches.
She attributes her being permitted to return to
Russia, with visa from Moscow, to the facts
that she has never been mixed up in any
counter revolutionary plots, and that she has
in her books and lectures been fair to the Soviet
government, while telling of the cruelties
and injustices imposed by the revolution. Some
people have accused her of being Communist,
or even in the employ of the Soviet government.
Undeterred by dangers in Russia or criticism
in the United States, she made her journey, In
1892 the first, she believes, OF the former arls-
tocracy to be allowed to return, and found
very different Russia from the one she had left
in 1922 She realized that the old Russia which
she had loved had gone, but she found much
good in the new and is unwilling to nurse Bit
terness and to renounce her country perma-
nently So she went about and visited her old
haunts, with emotion, but she also visited un-
conducted factories, schools, hospitals, churches,
day nurseries, political meetings and found
herself becoming and more interested.
She tells her impressions and relates conversa-
tions she had with people in trains, shops,
hotels, on the streets, everywhere. Her hus-
bands job was to soft-pedal her delight at
being back in her own country and her frank
comments what she saw. He evidently be-
neved that even with visa discretion was not
anliSs. The book is a breelly told story OF her
travels, apparently without any propaganda
purpose and with no attempt to discuss eco
nonic and political questions.
THE GREAT TRADITION. An Interpretation
of American Literature since the Civil War.
By Granville Hicks New York: The Mac
milan Co.
DEFORE the Civil War there. were giants
- in the land" of American literature: since
the Civil War industrialism has destroyed the
traditions established by Hawthorne, Thoreau,
Emerson and Herman Melville Bridging the
two periods and guardians of the tradition.
were Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes and Lowell.
Whitman was the forerunner and prophet Of
the age Of democracy and crowds and the ali-
ance of the individual with his fellow men. Mr..
HICKS does not reaily oeplore the passing Oh
the indiNdualistic, philosophic tradition Of our
early literature, though he sings brief requiem
over it In his chapter Heritage" His thesis
is that 'the writer, if he is accurately and in
telngently to portray American life, II he Is to
express whatever is vital and hopeful In the
American spirit, must ally himself with the
working class"
His last chapter. Trumpet Call" is an at
tack on the present social order, which is
biased upon falsehood, oppression, and the di-
vision of mankind into exploiters and exploited"
He believes in the application Of MARKHAM prn-
ciples to the study and evaluation of literature.
Those writer's win his highest approval who
have most nearly identified themselves with the
forces in modern life leading to greater social