most modern novels. and the. above Six hundred pages is too long for
work by General: Krasenof suffers Yrom that particular fault, It.
lly conceded that. as a result bice. previous books, "The White Coat;"" "the Untorgiven,"
"prom Double Eagle. to. Red Flag," the: author now ranks as tone of the greatest men of letters Russia has produced, hat isto say a great deal but the exciting javality "of the first of the three hovels' named, the Unforgettable Pictures of Russia under the Soviets which are contained in the second
movements in the third all justify vid desriptione @¢ mass the contention that the evolution has "brought forward one' out. standing writer among the Ieus:
Napoleon. and the Cossacks," is of singular, interest because of the insight it ives Into, the liv status of the Cossack att} Part of last century, of with descriptive information. which most foreign rs are unlikely to rend ome across, its characterization Throughout this' very" long" work, While" the. dramatic' quallty,"the very" long. work,
ability to. describe battles in broad Guthrie and significant detail makes the, book exceptionally enjoyable.
'But it, is. too long. "It. contains thin its covers. "atrial "enough reason of this aurfelt Sails' tormove for a couple of such books, and
that terapo which modern fection appears to require. Th fps gears, ame aero fey, especially when offset by the Undoubted dramatic "quality of Keasenod's "writing, which me cidentally, is delightfully rendered into English by Olga Vitali. who deserves every congratulation for the manner in which she hag cay-ried out her duties. "Those who like a story to which the reader may come and come again as often as he wishes will find this a most interesting work, though it. most certainly is not one to be roseed off in an evening.—n1
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