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| RUSSIA'S MESSAGE |
| _By William English Walling_ |
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| THE BOOK OF SELF |
| _By James Oppenheim_ |
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| THE BOOK OF CAMPING |
| _By A. Hyatt Verrill_ |
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| MODERN RUSSIAN HISTORY |
| _By Alexander Kornilov_ |
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| THE RUSSIAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING |
| _By Alexandre Benois_ |
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| THE JOURNAL OF LEO TOLSTOI (1895-1899) |
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| THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SUPERTRAMP |
| _By William H. Davies_ |
| _With a Preface by Bernard Shaw_ |
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THE SHIELD

Edited by

MAXIM GORKY, LEONID ANDREYEV, and FYODOR SOLOGUB

With a Foreword by William English Walling

Translated from the Russian by A. Yarmolinsky

New York Alfred A. Knopf Mcmxvii
Copyright, 1917, by
Alfred A. Knopf
Printed in the United States of America

FOREWORD

This is not merely a book about the Russian Jews. It is a marvellous
revelation of the Russian soul. It shows not only that the
overwhelming majority of the Russian intellectuals, including nearly
all of her brilliant literary geniuses, are opposed to the persecution
of the Jews or any other race, but that they have a capacity for
sympathy and understanding of humanity unequalled in any other land. I
do not know of any book where the genius and heart of Russia is better
displayed. Not only her leading litterateurs but also her leading
statesmen and economists are represented--and all of them speak as
with a single voice.

I am writing on the 16th of March. Yesterday the news reached the
world that Russia had probably at last succeeded in emancipating
itself from the German-sustained and German-supported autocracy whi