Russian Court Memoirs, 1914-16, with some account of court, social and political life in Petrograd before and since the war . ngthe inner secrets of their craft, or of giving newideas to the Chief and thus undermining theposition of his subordinates. Unfortunately Russianjournalism exists on a much lower level than is thecase in England, for instance, where journalists arerecruited from a vastly different class. In Russiait has always been a refuge for the unsuccessful, andin consequence it embraces a very mixed class ofmen, whose educational advantages are not all theymight have been. When it
Russian Court Memoirs, 1914-16, with some account of court, social and political life in Petrograd before and since the war . ngthe inner secrets of their craft, or of giving newideas to the Chief and thus undermining theposition of his subordinates. Unfortunately Russianjournalism exists on a much lower level than is thecase in England, for instance, where journalists arerecruited from a vastly different class. In Russiait has always been a refuge for the unsuccessful, andin consequence it embraces a very mixed class ofmen, whose educational advantages are not all theymight have been. When it is remembered that thejournalist is speaking to the nation every day of theweek and has the power to elevate or debase,particularly with a people so trusting and simpleas the Russians, the danger of a press such as oursis manifest. A great hue and cry was raised in press circles,a few years ago, when it was known that theGovernment intended to include a clause in the newpress laws, requiring every editor of periodicalpublications to be provided with certificates showingthat he had at least passed through a middle-class. BARONESS TATIANA MEDEM, NEE GARIAZINE,ONE OF THE BEAUTIES OF PETROGRAD THE PRESS 245 college. There was great excitement at the turnmatters were taking, and a crusade was started,demonstrating the impossibility of putting suchlimitations on the activities of an open profession ;that for a journalist education is secondary andonly talent is required, etc. The wonder is why inother open professions an educational census is notconsidered an insuperable obstacle to freedom, buta man having the pretension to express daily andpublicly thoughts and reflections representative ofpublic opinion, and who has thousands of readers,must keep the doubtful privilege of writing illiter-ately, as well as preserve the intellectual outlookof an acrobat. Education cannot ruin talent—^it merely polishesit. After all, genuine talent is a power thatwill be acknowledged in all condit
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