+ Bookm 52:342 D ’20 20w
“The pictures here are distinctly made for the text, not merely repetitions of the play.”
+ Lit D p90 D 4 ’20 160w
“It has all the appeal to both young and old that Maeterlinck is able to conjure with such apparent ease. It is a fascinating story. Paus has achieved a sort of stained glass quality in the illustrations, and this effect is enhanced by the mounting.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ N Y Times p4 N 28 ’20 190w + Review 3:481 N 17 ’20 50w
TELBERG, GEORGE GUSTAV, and WILTON, ROBERT.[[2]] Last days of the Romanovs. il *$3 Doran 947
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The book consists of two independent parts. Part one contains an account of the judicial examinations of the witnesses connected with the life of the family at Czarskoe-Selo, Tobolsk and Yekaterinburg by N. A. Sokoloff and copies of the depositions taken from the Omsk archives by George Gustav Telberg, after the fall of the Kolchak régime. Part two is the narrative of Mr Robert Wilton, for sixteen years correspondent of the London Times in Russia. While part one is taken up almost entirely with the examination of witnesses Mr Wilton’s narrative contains: Prologue; The stage and the actors; No escape; Alexandra misjudged; Razputin the peasant; Captives in a palace; Exile in Siberia; The last prison; Planning the crime; Calvary; “Without trace”; Damning evidence; All the Romanovs; The jackals; By order of the “Tsik”; The red kaiser; Epilogue. Among the contents of Part three are a list of the members of the imperial family at the outbreak of the revolution, a chronology of the documents and an alphabetical index of names.
“We cannot speak very highly of Mr Wilton’s method of handling this tragic history. His narrative contains much that is of interest and importance, but it seems to have been hastily written, and it is diffuse, occasionally slangy, and hotly argumentative. The second part of the book is the more interesting.”