paid for at a heavy price but our hope cannot easily be shaken that sooner
or later an event so full of promise for the misruled millions of the
autocratic empire of the Tsar will mark a step forward, not backward, in
the progress of the world. The whole story of the sudden out-break in
Petrograd which in little more than a day swept away the fabric of imperial
government will not soon be told, if ever. All real information on the
subject is timely and valuable. We need such studies as those contained in
the present volume, in order that we may understand what has happened, and
why it has happened.

The rise of the modern Jugo-Slav movement offers us a very different
picture. The subject and even the name are new to most people, the scale
is much smaller; the events have been less dramatic. But the unconquerable
resistance which a small disjointed nationality has offered throughout the
ages to ill fortune, oppression, and to attempts to obliterate it entirely
arouses our admiration. The movement too was intimately connected with the
outbreak of the present world war which cannot be understood without taking
it into account. It still represents only an ardent hope for the future but
when the day of peace and justice comes no permanent allotment can be made
of the lands east of the Adriatic that shall not give it at least some
satisfaction.

ARCHIBALD CARY COOLIDGE.




MARCH 18, 1918. THE ROLE OF THE INTELLECTUALS IN THE LIBERATING MOVEMENT IN
RUSSIA THE ROLE OF THE NTELLECTUALS IN THE LIBERATING MOVEMENT IN RUSSIA