PRINCESS KROPOTKIN.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 113, 5 February 1908, Page 3

PRINCESS KROPOTKIN.

1 rincess Sophio Kropotkin, whose husband • wrote the much discussed ."Autobiography of . ? Revolutionist," has been lecturing recently w various parts of . Scotland. Glasgow, Helensburgh, ; ahd Dundee aro among the , places in which-large audiences liavb gathered to hear tho revolutionary Princess .'express' her vieiv.s ..on' the history :of- her: country, from which; slip and her i husband aro exiles.? Ihe l'rincuss is,.a B.Sc.-of Geneva-University, and has.nlso studied chemistry/physics, and other branches of. scienco ,in Paris. : For thirty ; years ,she has, .according, to an" oil-. thusiastic admirer, "shared tho-sunshineand-Htorm of,her husband's,life.,. . When.parted by the- jailer,- she waited ;at- the - prison gato ofClairvaux till tho iudignation aroused , throughout Europe and America by tho imprisonment iii Franco .of; such : a' man .com-' , pelleu; after two' years, This release.' Sho now his exile,: : and • the sacrifice..to" their .high ideals - of what most- men and women; sporid;.their ,lives, in- striving for— wealth,;-position, friendships." - The Prin- : cess is rather under- middle.' ; height,- "and broadly built. ; . Her-features aro iexpressive, ~ and her dark eyes .bear; traces, of- suffering. : Liko most of her-countryfolk, 1 sho is.an'ex-s cellent'linguist, and 'has. a fairly good command of tho English;:larig\jage. ' Suflico it to say she is thoroughly familiar with the question which'forms'the subject of her lectures, snd well : ablo-,to throw-some light on tlio causes of the' revolutionary activity, in Russia., - ,- -