. Review of reviews and world's work. blished in Brooklynby the exiled Finnish editor, Eero Erkko, hadbeen denied the right to circulate in Russia. The Poles and the Finns have many moreperiodicals than the rest of the empire ; and, de- spite the rigorous censorship,—which, of course,falls most heavily on these peoples,—their dailyjournalism and magazine literature are veryhighly developed. An illustration of the difficulties Polish edi-tors have with the censor is furnished by therecent action of the Russian Governor-GeneralChertkoff in summoning to his office the chiefeditor of the Kurjer Wa
. Review of reviews and world's work. blished in Brooklynby the exiled Finnish editor, Eero Erkko, hadbeen denied the right to circulate in Russia. The Poles and the Finns have many moreperiodicals than the rest of the empire ; and, de- spite the rigorous censorship,—which, of course,falls most heavily on these peoples,—their dailyjournalism and magazine literature are veryhighly developed. An illustration of the difficulties Polish edi-tors have with the censor is furnished by therecent action of the Russian Governor-GeneralChertkoff in summoning to his office the chiefeditor of the Kurjer Warszawshi (Warsaw), andordering him to dismiss his court reporter and hissecretary. These officials had been responsiblefor the phrase in one of the court reports, UAswindler, a certain Chertkoff. The governor-general held that this was inserted for the pur-pose of ridiculing the name Chertkoff ; so hedemanded the dismissal of the two men. An-other instance was recently reported from Ger- 74 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF MARYAN GAWALEWICZ. (Editor of the Bluszcz, ofWarsaw.) many. The managing editor of the Gornoslanzak(Kattowitz) was fined 450 marks (about $110)for the publication of a poem in which mentionwas made of Russian oppression of the German prosecuting attorney declared that,even though the poem referred to Russian Po-land, it would be likely to incite aspirations forindependence in the Poles under German rule. The Poles have had an extensive periodical lit-erature for acentury ormore. The central cities ofthe three divisionsof the ancient com-monwealth—War-saw, in Russia;Cracow, in Aus-tria, and Posen, inGermany—are alsocenters of publica-tion of Polish peri-odical literature. Chief among thePolish monthly re-views and maga-zines is the Atene-um (Atheneum), ofWarsaw, a seriousmonthly, publish-ing fiction, his-tory, and politics. The Biblioteka Warszawska (Warsaw Library),which is more than sixty years old, also pub-lishes science, fiction,
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