22 AUGUST 1914, Page 25

Prom Russia to Siam. By Ernest Young. (Max Goschen. 10s.

6d. net.)—These sketches of travel have many lands for their background. Mr. Young flits from one place to another with the flickering speed of the cinematograph—from Russia to Holland, from Siam to Corsica, from Roumania to the China seas, ,and then back to Finland. He has seen much that is of interest, and tells us about it in a dispassionate but vivid fashion. Perhaps of all his sketches the most curious to-day is that in which he describes a tramp through Germany with a party of Boy Scouts, and how they fraternized with their German comrades, until one of the latter was moved to say at parting : " Let old people quarrel and talk about fighting if they will; we Scouts are brothers the world over."