MAXIM GORKY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 679, 2 December 1909, Page 7

MAXIM GORKY.

RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY PARTY EXPELS HIM. (By Telcgraph-Preta Assoclatlon-OopyrlshM St, Petertburg, November SO. The Russian Revolutionary Party has ox. i lolled Maxim Gorky, owing to tho luxurious ' < lfo ho has been hung at Capri, Italy. G'ORKY'S rejection in the states. I Maxim G'orky visited tho United States a cav j ears ago, on a lecturing tour, when ho, vhslat'thfi height of his faioe.iand whouibpinon' \\as 'running strong against tho ißllitmn jtfrtrhincnt 1 for its barbarons and daspoHe' roatmont of tho Revolutionaries. Every preparation was made in New York City to accord he distinguished novelist a fittrng receptionj ind tho day following his arrival, when ho, was itajmgiat an unpretentious hotel, the discov. >ry was niado that tho woman with whom ho sas travelling u-os not his wife, and that his Awful wjfo liad been put away, apparently ' without justification, some years previously. There was an instant rovulsion of sentiment towards 1 Gorkj; lie was unceremoniously jrdered out of tho hotel, and was refused aamttanco everywhere else, finally socking a private domicile with friends. Tho lecturo tour ' «as cancelled, and, after appearing a> few tunes before the meetings of secrot Russian societies, of which no reports were published, ho relumed to Europo and manyvio)cnt article's against what ho termed ths hypocrisy and moral perfidy of tho American's. Tho in-' udent excited lceeu discussion throughoutl America, Gorky's protestations that ho hsd ( only acted as was the enstoni of his people, | with no recognition of wrong or impropriety,! i were not received Opinion was unaniruouslyi against him, and it Mould now appear as if ho had, by luxurious and extravagant living,, merited the reprobation of tho party that had" •* been staunch to him throughout all the vjcissi. hides and dangers of a varied and, of late years, brilliant, oarcei. i\ Gorkv is 41 jcars of age. Ho ro6o into no-l tice as a Russian realistic novebst, and m I 1005 was uiipiisonod as n political offender. H« hns written of hnubclf v —"ln 18(8 I was apprenticed to a shoemaker j 1879, I was apprenticed i to n designer, 18S0, scullion on board a packet| boil, 1833. 1 worked for a biker; 18S4, I be-1 came a poitci; 18S5, baker; 18SC, chorister in a, tioupe of strolling opera plajers; 1887, I sold apples in the «tieet, 18S8, I attempted to com-> nut suicide, 1890, copjist in a lawyer's office| 1891, I eiossed Russia on foot, 1802, I was a labourer in the woikshops of a lailvftv. la tho same jear I published my first slorj."