Entered as second-class matter, July 3, 1917, at the post office at New York, N. I.. the act of March 3. 1879 Entered as second-class matter, July 3, 1917, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 L'ANTIQUITÉ EXPLIQUÉE ET REPRESENTÉE EN FIGURES. Paris 1719. 10 vols. Folio. SUPPLEMENT. Paris, 1729-1733. 5 vols Folio. LES MONUMENS DE LA MONARCHIE FRANCOISE. Paris, 1729- A fine set of Montfaucon's works, including the Monumens de la Monarchie francoise, which is seldom offered. All in the original full calf bindings, in good condition. L'Antiquité Expliquée and the Supplement are uniformly bound. The French series have somewhat richer gilding. All with red edges. These noble books constitute one of the most remarkable surveys of ancient and early French life and monuments. They contain hundreds of plates exquisitely engraved and present the most comprehensive book on the subjects of which they treat. 20 volumes in all. A rare and unusual offering. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. No. MCCLXXIV. DECEMBER 1921. VOL. CCX. AN ENGLISHWOMAN'S EXPERIENCES IN BY L. BOWLER. I WENT to Russia in July 1914 to take a post as "liseuse with a Polish lady. On the outbreak of war I wished to return to Vienna, but as the Woloczysk Bridge was blown up, all connection with Austria was, for me, at an end. I determined therefore to take a position as teacher in another family, but as the Germans were advancing, left them in July 1915 for Moscow. On 2nd March 1917 the revolution began, all the police were arrested, and the prisons thrown open. Having seen the curtain rise on the Red Terror, I was determined to see it fall, and in spite of the danger of being shot at any moment, I lived in Moscow till March 1919, when I was forced to leave through lack of food. Accordingly I went I. to a little Polish village in White Russia, where I had some acquaintances. When the Poles advanced I managed, with great difficulty, to escape over the frontier to Beresina, where I took a position as head-mistress in a Polish highergrade school, held in Count Potocki's palace. After the failure of the Bolsheviks to recapture Beresina, they took up their headquarters about forty versts distant. I was very anxious about my friends in M. The Bolsheviks had taken everything from them. We did not want for anything on the front, and it grieved me very much that I was powerless to aid them. They suffered especially from want of salt. I did not taste salt once during the eight months I spent at M.: one |