Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE SHIELD

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| THE NEWEST BORZOI BOOKS |
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| ASPHALT |
| _By Orrick Johns_ |
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| BACKWATER |
| _By Dorothy Richardson_ |
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| CENTRAL EUROPE |
| _By Friedrich Naumann_ |
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| CRIMES OF CHARITY |
| _By Konrad Bercovici_ |
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| RUSSIA'S MESSAGE |
| _By William English Walling_ |
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| THE BOOK OF SELF |
| _By James Oppenheim_ |
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| THE BOOK OF CAMPING |
| _By A. Hyatt Verrill_ |
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| MODERN RUSSIAN HISTORY |
| _By Alexander Kornilov_ |
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| THE RUSSIAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING |
| _By Alexandre Benois_ |
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| THE JOURNAL OF LEO TOLSTOI (1895-1899) |
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| THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SUPERTRAMP |
| _By William H. Davies_ |
| _With a Preface by Bernard Shaw_ |
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THE SHIELD

Edited by

MAXIM GORKY, LEONID ANDREYEV, and FYODOR SOLOGUB

With a Foreword by William English Walling

Translated from the Russian by A. Yarmolinsky

New York Alfred A. Knopf Mcmxvii Copyright, 1917, by Alfred A. Knopf Printed in the United States of America