ANGRY DUST
CURRENT LITERATURE
By Nikolai Gubsky
Mr. Gubsky's career began in an aristocratic Lytzey where the cadets were allowed a moral freedom to be envied even by their elders elsewhere ; thence to the Navy, and a curious Ministry connected with agrarian development, the work of which might have retarded the Revolution but for the outbreak of war. Then, having been refused for active service, Mr. Gubsky served in an ambulance unit in Galicia. This came to an end with an internal struggle cul- minating in Mr. Gubsky's elopement to England, where he became a member of the Russian War Committee in October, 1916. Within the year his duties were ended by the Revolution, and for the next six years Mr. Gubsky found pre- carious employment in England until he decided to live by his pen. Such is the bare outline of a career, exciting in itself and described in this book (Heinemann, Jos. 6d.) vividly and with feeling. Mr. Gubsky's only mistake is his pre-occupa- tion with his women, though it must be said that this is a failing common also to books by English and American authors dealing with Russia immediately preced- ing and during the War. On the whole it is as well written and entertaining a biography as is likely to be found during a six months' reading.
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