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good book. It was about a girl in the sewing trades. Again he was looking around and saw what he could see. He later became an important officer of the State Department. He and Ernest Poole, and perhaps Leroy Scott, went to Russia as a part of a kind of look-see mission. Madame Catherine Breshkovsky, who was called Babushka, came to this country and Maxim Gorki came to this country about the same time. This was before the World War. Gorki and Madame Breshkovsky were of different elements and different groups. Madame Breshkovsky was a member of the old aristocracy. I don't know what Gorki was, but he wasn't the aristocracy obviously. He was a literary man and well thought of. His writings were well-known here. Leo Tolstoy's son, Count Illya Tolstoy, was here too.

At any rate, Breshkovsky had set up a great deal of interest in the Russian revolution. This was pre-1918 prevolution. It was the revolution that was going on almost continuously in Russia for fifty years or more. Conservatives they would be called today, but they were the people that the police were always arresting and sending off to Siberia and all that sort of thing. Madame Breshkovsky was a very cultivated and charming person. She spoke English and French very well. She made lectures all over the country. I met her in Chicago at Lydia Coonley Ward's house where she stayed. Lydia Coonley Ward was an aunt of one of my closest friends. Madame