16 JANUARY 1932, Page 26

THE. MESSENGER OF THE SNOWS. By F. Goetel. (Elkin Marrot

and Mathews. 7s. 6d.)—The Polish author of From Day to Day gives us another story, moving in its simplicity, of Bolshevism in Central Asia. The individual human element recedes into insignificance against a bleak background of revolution and steppe.