11 NOVEMBER 1916, Page 21

Suasion and Nomad. By E. Nelson Fell. (Duckworth and Co.

7s. 6d. net.)—The author of these interesting sketches of Siberian life is an American engineer, who for some years managed a group of mines in the Kirghiz steppes of South-Western Siberia. He describes the Little Russian and Cossack settlers and the natives with equal sympathy, and in a chapter on a labour dispute ho shows that the Russian work- man, though rather lazy and too fond of vodka, can be managed by a firm and tactful employer. His photographs of ancient tombs in the desert recall the Greek conquerors who passed through Central Asia long ago.