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MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1933.

THE BOLSHEVIST

REVOLUTION

Trotsky's History.

The History of the Russian Re- volution. Volumes II. and III. By Leon Trotsky. (Gollancz. 188. net each).

THE CHINA MAIL.

"THE NON-PAREIL OF VIRGINIA”

HISTORICAL PICTURE OF PRINCESS POCAHONTAS

It is hardly surprising that Trot- STRANGE ROMANCE OF

sky has never been a popular fi

gure in Russian revolutionary cir

cles. Except Lens, there seems

nobody in any party for whom he

London. There is the story. What does Recently the Queen visited Mr.Jour auther make of it? has a good word to say and, even Torney of Heacham, Norfolk. Mrs.

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work, the concluding volumes which are now published, is pre- sumably to show, against the de- tractions of the Stalinist official Soviet historians, that he, than any other man except Lenin, romance "Pocahontas, or the Non-uneasily aware of it was responsible for the Bolshevist pareil of Virginia." It is his long- triumph of November, 1917. More-est and most ardous effort, writes

the Virginian Indians. They came cruelties, their mutual to England..

more

mistrust.

There are

some ghastly scenes, too. The hanging of an English- man in an English ship, the torture of an Indian prisoner by another Indian tribe, the massacre of some of the settlers-these are passages

LOST WILL OF D. H. LAWRENCE.

Subject of Suit In London.

WIDOW'S CLAIM.

The lost will of D. L. Lawrence,

recently.

SETTLERS not suitable for the squeamish. But the novelist, was the subject of a they help us to understand the suit in the London Probate Court appalling difficulties in the way of any progress in the relations be-

Mr. Lawrence died at Venice in Indians. tween Englishmen and Slowly, with infinite skill, he The former hated the Indians for France in March, 1930.

The lost will was made in 1914. us the Virginian scene. their cunning and their cruelties. in a country where revolutionary Torney is an 80-year-old descendant paints for

thought the English The Indians

His widow, Mrs. Einraa Johanna eloquence has always run to length

of John Rolfe who married, in 1814. Side by side, the savages and the and breadth, he must hold all re-i

as one of the pioneer settlers in settlers are revealed to us as people were liars and unclean and violent. cords for sustained Invective.

Virginia, Princess Pocahontas-of fatal similarities and contrasts, And, unfortunately, both were often Maria Lawrence, of Mexico, asked the court to revoke letters of ad- The main object of his present daughter of Powhatan, Emperor of Similar in their fanaticisms, their right.

There is no sentimentality-but ministration granted to her ́and And different in their fundamental there is artistry and penetration in Mr. George Lawrence (D. H. Law- And now I have read David attitudes towards life. Even the every page. Who can easily forget rence's brother) and to pronounce Garnett's story of that strange happily married Pocahontas is made a writer of such phrases as "that in favour of the will of 1914 under love which is as soft as moth's which she was sole beneficiary. "There was a difference which wings in the night and as intense The defendants were Mr. George she never fathomed between the as the diver's first breath of air!" Lawrence and Mrs. Emily Una The end of the book shews how King, his sister. It was stated by Indian and the English way of Pocahontas becomes a nine days' Mr. T. Buckmill (for the widow) life, and which yet, as time went on, made her feel restless and un-wonder at the Court of King James, that the suit had been settled. The when we meet Queen Anne of Den-will was made in 1914 and there comfortable. It was that while Indian life was fixed, the whole mark, Raleigh and Ben Jonson was no question about its contents. Pocahontas also remeets D very It was in Mr. Lawrence's possession manner of English life was chang-dilaridated John Smith in England for years. ing, Powhatan was content to

and is disillusioned.

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence, who were live as his forefathers had done,

But the book will remain out-a devoted couple, travelled all over and before the coming of the standing for me for its picture of the world, and the will had been English would never have thought the old Virginia-for meeting the lost somewhere during these wan- of changing his way of life. Red Indians for whom 1 (like most derings. There was no doubt that Though he was an emperor ruling of us) have had a vague longing Mr. Lawrence believed that the will over many peoples, he feathered since early childhood-and for the was in existence, because he ask- his own arrows and, as a result thrills of the expeditions and ed about it three days before he of this, he was always contended escapes, loyalties and treacheries, died. with what he had made. But terror and daring of pioneer life in Expecting To Go To War.

Reuter correspondent.

over, Lenin, as he points out, was

In his Preface, Mr. Garnett in hiding for nearly four months

"Facts begin by inspiring writes: before the Bolshevist coup d'etat.

As for Stalin, who was destined the imagination; they end by impri- after many years to thrust Trot soning it in a strait-waistcoat, and sky from power and exile him, we the following work was written in felters. The persons, the are assured that he never played their any considerable part: "The more places and, with few exceptions, the decisive the pressure of the revolu-events here recorded are historical. I have visited the places, I have read the tionary masses became, and

all important documents. by greater the Reope nasumed events, the more Stalin would keep ambition has been two-fold: to draw in the background, the paler would an accurate historical picture and to become his political thought. the make it a work of art. wenker his initiative. It was so in: 1905; it was se in the autumn of what 1917."

My

my

I am not in a position to say to degree of precision Mr. Garnett has given us "an accurate After this it is not to be expect historical picture": but it is cer- ed that Trotsky would speak kind-tainly convincing; it is certainly a ly of his political enemies, and the picture that will stick in reader will find- with astonishment, memory. And It is brilliantly auc-| if he is not already grounded in cessful as a work of art.

of Most of the book deals with thei the Bolshevist interpretation plain facts-that the more patrio-lives of the Virginian Indians and tie a general (Kornilov, for exam. the invading settlers from the re- East @CTOSS the Atlantic. ple) appeared to be, the more cer-mote

tain it was that his secret desire Pocahontas, a mere child, first fell} was to betray his country to the in love with that dashing braggart, Captain John Smith. He cast a Germans.

spell over her so that her naturall First Volume. Trotsky's first volume contained suspicion of the white many amusing, if not very accur. engulfed by a longing to see Lon-

men was

Rolfe would not wear the same old America.

Mrs. Lawrence sald that in 1914 clothes, live in the same sort of I hear that Mrs. Torney (whom she and her husband were staying house, sail the same sort of boat, the Queen has just visited, as men-in Buckinghamshire, and in their eat the same sort of food or cat tioned above) has recently had the company were Miss Catherine Mans- Murray, it in the same way as his fore-crypt of the Church of St. John the field and Mr. Middleton fathers. Everything had to be Evangelist in the Waterloo Road, the author.

better, and so, in spite of all his London, searched for the coffin of The men were expecting to serve work. he could never be satisfied Pocahontas. It was supposed that in the War. They decided to make with anything he had made and it had been removed there from their wills, and the documents they was always scheming to improve Gravesend.

executed were in identical fan-

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Prophets Of Woe

on it and replace it. This change' But the search has been without guage. Mr. Middleton Murray had of attitude was the most funda-result.

kept his will, and it could be re- mental difference in civilisation There remains not far from where garded as a draft of Mr. Lawrence's that the white man brought with I write these notes-down by the will. him into America."

Ludgate Hill railway bridge-a Mr. John Middleton Murray, the This "difference" is brought out memory of the Princess. It is the author of the Old Rectory, Larling.

of a little square-Belle near Norwich, gave evidence. ate, judgments of men and vivid don, to hear the church bells ring in the carefully woven text of the name

Lord Merrivale said there was descriptions of the revolutionary, to live with a "god-like" Eng-etary. In the end it and the Lon-Sauvage Yard...

ish. Smith gosa. He in believ- don fog-finish off the Frincess-

no doubt the document had been scene in the early part of 1917.

ed to be dead. And Pocahontas and the book

lost. He would pronounce for the when the writer was not yet in

marries the settler Rolfe, helps him It is a remarkable triumph for

contents of the document executed Russia. These later volumes, in

in 1914, revoke any previous letters the events of which he was often a found the tobacco industry and then Mr. Garnett. He writes with a kind of deadly restraint that campels

of administration, and grant to the participant, provide fewer examples ails with him to England.

At the age of 21, she died of con-ereduelity. He gives

us beautiful!

In these days, when no many widow new letters with the will of Trotsky's biting wit, though one notices the description of a fatefulsumption (three years after their descriptive passages-there is an un- people are prophets of woe, it is attached.

forgettable scene when Pocahontas amusing to come across someone The terms of settlement, he add- exchange of views between Keren Marriage) at Gravesend.

shows that she can love the honest like Captain Robson, a character in ed, were generous. sky, the Prime Minister, and Kar- nilov, the Commander-in-Chief, as told also that Savinkov, the terro- Rolfe-and some excellent character Mr. Eden Phillpotts's latest novel. chauvinist, "believed studies, notably Old Powhatan, John One of Robson's hobbies was to col- "the democratic

of the rist turned

Dale and, of lect prophecies of woe uttered in Gorvernment and the, 'Republican'inot without foundation that he had Smith, Sir Thomas general conversing about yielding a right to look down upon Keren-course, Pocahontas herself. Person-mes which we now look back on

asky, and, while holding his right ally, I should have liked more of the as fairly bright. power one to the other.

lean of the o: his selections: though they were discussing a hand respectfully to his vizor, led Princess and a little

struggles of the Jamestown settlers. berth in a sleeping car." We are him by the nose with his left.'

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Queen Adelaide."I have only one desire to play the part of Marie Antoinette with bravery in the revolution that is coming in England."

Lord Shaftesbury, in 1848-"No- thing can now save the British Em- nire from shipwreck."

Wilberforce."I dare not marry -the future is so dark and unset- tled."

William Pitt-"There is scarce- ly anything around us but ruin and. despair."

The Duke of Wellington." thank God I shall be spared from seeing the consummation of the ruin that is gathering about us,"

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It la altogether an absorbing and entertaining work containing many! glimpses of worldly realism and truth, and quite humorous in its own way though the obsession of the sex element is rather too pro- nounced.

GALSWORTHY'S GENEROSITY.

One of John Galsworthy's last acis, before his fatal illness set in, was to inform the London P. E. N. Club, of which he was president, that he intended to endow the club with the £9000 he bad received from. the Nobel Prize. Committee in Stockholm.

His lawyers had been instructed accordingly, and a deed of gift had! been prepared for bis signature, Galsworthy died with the deed un-. signed, but his widow was fully aware of ble intentions, and it is likely that his generous wish will be respected.

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