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Stephen Graham is a close student of Russia; he has a consuming interest in the Russian nature and deep sympathy with Russian character. For many years he has lived among the people of whom he writes. “The Way of Martha and the Way of Mary” is a study of Russian national characteristics, particularly as typified by her religious spirit, which is contrasted with the spirit of Western Christianity. A national idea, national unity, has its origin in the national religion, and this is especially true of Russia, because the intensity of Russian character demands some absorbing ideal to which it may turn.
“All that is beautiful in Russia’s life, art and culture,” writes Mr. Graham, “springs from the particular and characteristic Christian ideas in the depths of her. She is essentially a great and wonderful unity. It is of that essential unity that I write.”
“The Way of Martha and the Way of Mary” is a valuable addition to the list of important books Mr. Graham has written on Russia, books that are treasuries of information and a source of inspiration to those who love mankind.
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Russia and the World
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For more than seven years Stephen Graham has been a close student of things Russian. Compelled by an intense sympathy with the country and its people, he forsook his native England and went to Russia when he was twenty-three to study at first hand the life and customs of that country. This was the beginning of an attachment which grew stronger with the years and out of which have come several of the most important contributions made to English literature bearing on the Russia of modern times.
At the outbreak of the present European war Mr. Graham was in Russia, and his book opens, therefore, with a description of the way the news of war was received on the Chinese frontier, one thousand miles from a railway station, where he happened to be when the Tsar’s summons came. Following this come other chapters on Russia and the War, considering such subjects as, Is It a Last War?, Why Russia Is Fighting, The Economic Isolation of Russia, An Aeroplane Hunt at Warsaw, Suffering Poland: A Belgium of the East and The Soldier and the Cross.