27 MAY 1922, Page 24

The Real Tsaritsa. By Madame Lili Dehn. (Thornton Butterworth. 15s.

net.)—Madame Dehn, the wife of an officer in the late Tsar's personal guard, was an intimate friend of the Tsaritsa and her children. Her account of the Empress Alexandra as a kindly and simple-minded woman is pleasantly written and is, on the face of it, more credible than the lurid representations of her which have found currency. Madame Dehn remained with the imperial family during the revolution until they were sent to Siberia, and she describes the harsh treatment accorded them by M. Kerensky. Madame Dehn's recollections of Rasputin are wholly devoid of the sensational. She knew him as a hypnotist who cured her small boy of a feverish attack.