When Emperor Francis Joseph received President Roosevelt his palace in Vienna he described self as "the last European monarch cof the old school." And in trath he never was a shadow Emperor: from hhis accession to the throne at the age of eighteen, through 60 years bef action and suffering right down to the day when the World War began, hhis was the deciding will throughout his wide empire. Ibs life therefore is, almost from the beginning, history, and his biographer, Professor Joseph Redlich, portrays him by showing the Europe of Francis Joseph's day from the standpoint of hig personal activity as ruler. The daily demands of his task of maintaining a great old European Empire, of moulding its internal and external policy by decisions derived in the last analysis from his own Judgment of men and. things—this made him what he Was as the men of his days saw him and as he lives on in the recollection of those who knew him, Lenin—the most _outstanding figure of this gencruticn, stronger than any man of the French revolution, for 28 years a hunted fagitive, then for a few years the dictator of a great country—whether or not one holds his faith, one can but ulmire his patience, his courage, and his power. "His dictatorship differced from all others in history in that] the dictator demanded nothing for himself and his greatest ambition was to make his authority unnecessary. "Lenin; Thirty years of Russia" is the story of his life from boyhood hig first reactions to the misery of the factory workers in St. Peters lourg, his attempt to write and di tribute revolutionary tracts, and the consequent three yours' exile Siberia, where he read and studied socialism; his return, only to. be again exited; his years of work in darkness and loneliness, his scheme ieradually shaping, always governed his communist ideal: every one should work and every one should fcatno idlers and. none ili want Then the revolution of 1905-—a fail Ure~thn T2 years move o€ wording inthe dark, then the wat, the. Menthovik revolution, Keronsk)'s rexinne overthrown ant Lenin president of the: Soviet republic, but surround by char which he wan shaping into form "when death overtook hi worn out at fifty S. M. Hutchinson, from whom we have had nothing' but an ocwal short story since his marriage—his Inst book, "One Tn~ creasing Purpose," was published more than three years ago—is busy again on a novel, to which he has given the curious title "The Defective Trumpet." (It sounds a little like a story by Hans Andersen.) Those admirers of the earlier work of A. S. M. will hope that he is taking life less seriously, and that this new book will be more in the vein of "Once Aboard the Lugzer." But they will have to restrain their impatience and cariosity, for "The Defective Trumpet" will not be pabished until next year, when it will appear under the imprint of Hodder Stoughton.
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