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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 25 Mar 1937, p. 56

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His real view, he sàys. is set forth in. bis book. The Revoution Betrayed, just1 published by Doubleday. Dorait "Whaàtever i the new constituion1s principled and significant, and really, elevates it higb above the most demo- cratic constitutions of bourgeois coun- tries," hé rIte."s merely a watered- down paraphrase of. the fundamental documents: of the October Revolution.ý.., :"Representing as it. does an immense step backward f rom socialist to bour- geois principles, the lew constitution. cut and sewed to the measure of the« ruling group. follows thé saine historic course as the. abandonnient of world revolution in favor of the League of Na- tions. the restoration, of the bourgeois family, the substitution of the standing arniy for the militia. the resurrection of rafl¶cg n dcrtinian hgM of inequality.... "In the last analysis. Soviet Bonapart- ismn owes its birth to the belatedness of world revolution. But in the capitalist countries the sanie cause gave rise to fascisn. .. ..Stalinisin and f ascisitn, in spite of a deep difference in social foundations, are symmietrical phenoinena. In many of their features they show a% ldealv imilaritv. A victorious. revolu- J-ough ton Mgifflisi o reet Japiet Ayer P* arbank, ouithoress of. "Rîch Man Poor M»"as she aP- Pears autograp-hing co pies of her laetnove!. Thc story *covers- the era of Teddy RooseveitWoorow Wilsoél, Oad thme peiod. of the World Lifo of Naturalist Us Wriften for Juveniles Appleton-Century are bringing out two non-fiction books for boys and girls that combine entertainnient and educa- tion. Eteanor Doorly's The Insect ess in ' er own namue and sister of the ixovelist, Margaret Ayer Barries. Th e background of this. account of Amer ican 1farily life is-the suffrage movenient the. Bull. Moose cause,' the Progressive party under Theodore Roosevelt, the World War, and the post-War> periods. Backgrou.nd more, thani anythlingelse, more than character- ization. more than. plot, more thaii style. dominates the story-. F.xcept, for the delight ful. personality o f Granidinother Smith, titul ar hecad of the, prominent Snmith hankinig family of Chicago, 'and the carefuily defiined per- sonalities of the Smith tWinis, Anniette and* Pete. the characters are, s omewhat- sbadowyý or wooden. Possibly becaluse the Snîiths are a wealthy famils. very wvealthy; and because money, a great dfra] of money, mak~es soemn idividuals stoclgy and stereotyped, the mien and women i this story generally lack fire and life. Hendricks Smith, himslf, principal in the riovel, ini the final analysis finds existence singularly flat and unliniting when he bas achievedl everNyhing- respect and prosperity i business. and solidity ini his dornestic life. Barbara, the suffragette and first, Weddinqs ead Society Pages each week in - "- i ust Ladislao Szekely, author of Tropic abott Pever, published bY Harper & Brothers, beetie, February 1,. is the busband of Madelon mni' Lulofs, the Dtitch novelist. RobE In 1913 Mr. Szekely, tben a youth of artist, twenty, was lured froni bis native Walter hasi 4e la ear in'Fabre's own words Barbara tnroug Yger wasp, scorpion, sacred ing ber home ai n-bees tarantula, praying to forgive bci idc moth and many others. during the wa, ibbings, faions . woodcut put bier on a illustrated the book and Iast page) is tMare bas Wnritten the In-~ stresses tbe si the -book, Rici ild turni about andi 1 on page 626 (tbe sng. No doubt it ice of tbe title of 58c ri Lj«I ; wc~; k 1- mi z mi I OOXSNlOF CAE»s LIBENAILT statIoueV7 LA

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