. Review of reviews and world's work. asis of this thought is offered by two recentincidents, wherein two periodical publicationswere meted out administrative punishment. Even here there is no clear statement as to what reallyconstitutes a dangerous tendency, what thoughtsand opinions are considered deserving of pun-ishment or warning. The Il/cdotiKKsli has beenone of the strongest advocates of more liberalpress laws. KATHERINE BERESHKOVSKA,—A RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONIST. AN embodiment of the entire Russian revolu-tionaiy movement, in one heroic figure,is offered by the life and work of KatherineBer
. Review of reviews and world's work. asis of this thought is offered by two recentincidents, wherein two periodical publicationswere meted out administrative punishment. Even here there is no clear statement as to what reallyconstitutes a dangerous tendency, what thoughtsand opinions are considered deserving of pun-ishment or warning. The Il/cdotiKKsli has beenone of the strongest advocates of more liberalpress laws. KATHERINE BERESHKOVSKA,—A RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONIST. AN embodiment of the entire Russian revolu-tionaiy movement, in one heroic figure,is offered by the life and work of KatherineBereshkovska, who recently arrived in this coun-try to lecture on the present internal conditionof Russia and the socialistic revolutionary move-ment there. In an interview and character sketchby ]\Ir. Ernest Poole which appears in the Out-look, her personality is summed up thias : Daughter of a nobleman and earnest philanthropist;then revolutionist, hard-labor convict, and exile fortwenty-three years in Siberia; and now an heroic old. Copyright, 1904, by Mandelkern, New York. MADAME KATHERINE BERESHKOVSKA AS SHE IS TO-DAY. woman of sixty-one, she has plunged again into thedangerous struggle for freedom. The Russian revolu-tionary movement is embodied in this one heroic figureBabushka—little grandmother—as she isknown among her fellow-workers, believes thatin a few months Russias oppressed subjects willrise by millions. The time has almost come,she told Mr. Poole. We shall sweep away the System of the Czar, and .shall be free. See—she showed me bulletinsthat had followed her to Xew York. Day and nightthey work. In place of sleep, a dream of freedom ; inplace of warmth and food and drink, the same dream is old in American breasts. Few women have suffered and experiencedthe horrors, the anguish, and the hardshipswhich have been crowded into this one study of the Russian peasant, gained in alife of devotion, which included years of exile inSiberia,
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