YELPATYEVSKY, The Homeless Ones 181
MICHAEL ARTZIBASHEF, The Jew, a Story 193
RUSSIA AND THE JEWS
_Alexey Maksinovich Pyeshkov, better known under the assumed name
of Maxim Gorky, was born in 1869. In 1905 he was arrested and
imprisoned because of his political convictions. After the
revolutionary days of 1906 he left Russia and settled on the
island of Capri. At the beginning of the present war he returned
to Russia and took an active part in the public life of the
country. He is at present residing in Petrograd, where he edits a
monthly of distinctly radical tendencies._
THE SHIELD
RUSSIA AND THE JEWS
BY MAXIM GORKY
From time to time--more often as time goes on!--circumstances force
the Russian author to remind his compatriots of certain indisputable,
elementary truths.
It is a very hard duty:--it is painfully awkward to speak to grown-up
and literate people in this manner:
"Ladies and gentlemen! We must be humane; humaneness is not only
beautiful, but also advantageous to us.
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