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A LL the world knows something about Bolshevism today, but few knew, a dozen years ago, what strange thoughts were seething in the brains of European revolutionists. Beyond the dry theories of socialism and communism Americans had little Idea of what a red revolutionist was like. Debs was entirely a home pro duct and Emma Goldmann, though as familiar to us as Carrie Nation, was little understood. We got better ac quainted with her during tho war and put her in prison. And now we are about to consign our own Debs to a similar change of scenery. Some have been attracted to "The Shadow of the Cathedral" because Ibanez in "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" gave the world one of the most artistic and thrilling novels of the war. It was replete with stirring action and realistic delinea tion of character. In "The Shadow of the Cathedral" we have little action, but the same artistic intent and the same skill in limning charac ter that we find in the war story. The novel has been advertised as a study of the declining influence of the church in Spain, but in reality It is an anarchistic propaganda. Here we have as the central character a Bolshevik, although, of course, he is not thus designated. Outside of Rus sia the word was unknown when Ibanez wrote this work. Gabriel, reared amid the ecclesiasti cal family of the mighty cathedral of Toledo and destined for the priest hood, goes away to become a soldier and fight for the church in one of the numerous revolutions. He loses his faith, then quits his morals in Paris, becomes a revolutionary and travels about Europe with an English woman preaching revolution. He is one of I the most eloquent exponents among I the revolutionary evangels, but being purely an idealist he warns against violence while men of action applaud him and go forth to manufacture rev olution with bombs and other com pelling instrumentalities. Gabriel passes from prison to prison, becomes a victim of consump tion and, on the verge of the grave following the death of his companion returns to Spain and finds refuge with his brother Esteban, one of the minor officers of the Toledo ca thedral. His brother, who has been very fond of him and who, with the I other members of the cathedral fam ily, have respected his genius, Is quite willing to share his simple life with the sad, broken dreamer whose career since he left the temple is un known to the church folk. Like Dante knocking at the convent gate and askiug only "peace," Gabriel wishes to pass his few remaining days in quiet. But a man cannot be silent long amid articulate creatures. When Bimplo folk ask him questions he needs must answer. In Gabriel's case the answers fill many pages, for the author is trying to set before us the glories of tho communistic so ciety which is to do without God and devote itself entirely to this life. The author's cure for Christianity is pantheism; his cure for capitalistic society is nothing more or less than what we now call Bolshevism. It cannot be said that the pages of propaganda are altogether dreary. A.s a matter of fact they appeal both by their artistry and historic information to one who is willing to forget that the author ought to be telling a story. Some of the descriptions of the ca thedral and its environs, even though written with unsympathetic ink, have an engaging sorcery. The cathedral, I gather, is a symbol of decadent Spain. Gabriel is the new order striving to tear away the cob webs of the past and give the world a religion that shall have for its sole purpose the improvement of man's condition here below. All else, we are told, is superstition. The ending of the book is ironic and tragic. Tho simple folk, stirred by the teachings of Gabriel, start a revolution in the cathedral. The man whose child has died as a result of under-nourishment due to poverty, is joined by others who decide to steal the j'eewled statue of the Madonna in one of the cathedral chapels. Gabriel, who has been appointed a watchman, is approached by them and asked to give his aid. He is horrified that his idealism should have had such a re sult in these ignorant minds. Ho tells them that if the whole commun ity, for its own weal, had come to the cathedral to take the statue he would gladly have surrendered it to them. "You have come to steal it so that you may be rich, so that you may be come a part of capitalistic society and enjoy the privileges of that class," he says, or something of that purport. Defending the statue he is mortally wounded. When he Is placed in the prison Infirmary his identity as a rev olutionist is discovered and he dies as some one hisses in his ear that he was one of the thieves. The pessimistic ending is enough to make one shiver and the only con solation one is given is that all must die that the process of living may go on that is to say, living on this earth. The reader of today has an advan tage which the reader of this book a few years ago did not possess. Bol shevism has become an actuality. It has been given a chance to show what it can do. Instead of bringing into the world the idealistic condi tions of which Gabriel speaks in. tones of poetic enchantment, it has brought violence .anarchy and chaos. It has stolen the jeweled statue and left nothing of value in its place. I Specially I Prepared I COAL I When you smash M lumps of coal so M they, will fit your I M range or heater, you I M are doing work that I I machinery can per- I M form much more I M easily and economic- I M This work is all done I M for you when you 1 M buy Castle Gate or 1 M Clear Creek Nut I M Coal the standard I M fuels for range f or fl heater. 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