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THE LAND OF THE CHILDREN

... THE LAND OF THE CHILDREN. By b. Gussiev Orenburgsky. nA (Longmans /o. uu.; It is not to be expected yet that the Russian Revolution can be clearly written down. It is too near and too stupendous. The mind is bruised by its impact. The Land of the Children ...

Published: Wednesday 20 June 1928
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 200 | Page: 114 | Tags: Review 

THE CRITIC ON THE HEARTH

... Russian novelist and philo sopher who is rightly credited with a large share in the pre paration of the ground for the Russian Revolution. The trouble with Tolstoy's most important doctrines is that they can only be put into practice successfully in an ideal ...

Published: Wednesday 25 September 1918
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1095 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

THE CRITIC ON THE HEARTH

... Kings. By Mrs. Evan Nepean. v (Atulrcw Melrose.) Modern Scottish Writers. By W. M. Parker. (Hod& and Co.) Through the Russian Revolution. By Claude Anct. Illustrated. (HMchinson.) Crescent and Iron Cross. By E.. F. Benson; (tloddcr.) A WELL KNOWN PUBLISHER ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1918
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1399 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

RIVAL ELEMENTS

... MILNE THE AWAKENED, by Zod Oldenbourg Gollancz 16s), a novel set in pre-war Paris among the refugees from Hitler and the Russian revolution, is big in several directions. It is long, it reflects events of world importance, and it shows everywhere the size ...

Published: Wednesday 17 July 1957
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1308 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... himself capable of handling, with a brilliance that dazzles the lay mind, such diverse and technical subjects as the Russian Revolution, High Finance, and Night Life in Berlin. He does not do this merely for the sake of displaying his versa tility. Susan's ...

Published: Wednesday 25 April 1934
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1809 | Page: 60 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... house in the least fashionable and, therefore, the cheapest corner of the British Concession at Tientsin, in China. The Russian Revolution had thinned their ranks. A large clan once, they now numbered only five. In plain words, they were a granny, a mother ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2172 | Page: 23 | Tags: Review 

CINEMA CAMEOS

... can recommend HEROES ARE MADE (Tatler). This is the autobiography of Nikolai Ostrowsky, who was a heroic figure of the Russian revolution in its first years. He was drawn as a boy into a bitter, underground struggle, learnt in the toughest school of war ...

Published: Wednesday 06 September 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2187 | Page: 11 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... book can forget its flavour, or, in spite of imitations, find that flavour elsewhere. _ This is a novel of the One i e, Russian Revolution, with One Copeck. spedal reference to the conditions and events that led up to it. It is a dreadful story. Ivan Petrof ...

Published: Wednesday 28 April 1937
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2402 | Page: 52 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger

... intelligent account of Mr. Komisarjevsky's career as a theatrical producer. Incidentally, it tells us a good deal about the Russian Revolution and about the condition of dramatic art in various countries, including America. There is an exhaustive exposition and ...

Published: Wednesday 11 December 1929
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2918 | Page: 96 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER: Too Many Catastrophes

... they would not object to a novel about Charlotte Corday, and there must be many Charlotte Cordays in the annals of the Russian Revolution. (l _ Snow in Harvest is another satire, but on now in what it is a satire cannot easily be stated in a arves few words ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1933
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2772 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: First-Class Brains

... Large and chargej ampires. ancj jn other amusing situa tion, is not concerned with anything as grimly realistic as Russian revolutions and in The Jade's Pro gress he gives us a straight and on the whole well- told story of persons in full possession ...

Published: Wednesday 31 October 1928
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2910 | Page: 88 | Tags: Review