• CONFESSIONS OF AN ANARCHIST.
Confessions of an Anarchist. By W. C. Hart. (E. Grant Richards. 2s. 6d. net.)—To have "spent some ten years among Anarchists," to have been "for some time secretary to two Anarchist groups," and to have "written for various Anarchist journals" certainly give "some claims to be considered an authority." But these things do not exactly prepossess one in favour of the witness. So much one is bound to say ; yet the party of order cannot afford to neglect the information so obtained. And very strange this information is. On the whole, it tends to reassure those who may have been terrified by the threats and actual performances of the destructives. That they are dangerous in a way no one can deny ; so are homicidal lunatics; and there is no possible method of absolutely guarding against the outrages which they may commit. But the total lack of coherence among them prevents them from becoming practi- cally formidable. Nothing can be more ludicrous than their attempts to construct. They are more absolute failures than even the Socialistic experiments. Mr. Hart gives facsimiles of hand- bills and title-pages, and portraits of notorious criminals, not the least curious of these being "A Russian Revolutionist," a sweetly
pretty young woman who "shot herself to escape arrest for com- plicity in a plot against the Czar in 1905."
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