22 AUGUST 1925, Page 19

Mr. Ralph Fox, author of People of the Steppes (Constable),

was a member of a Relief Mission in South-Eastern Russia ; on behalf of the Mission he was sent into the wilderness to buy horses. For months he had to live as the wild herdsmen live in Turkestan ; he made strange acquaintances and came to understand the fervour of the Communists. His account. of his travelling is well written and gives us much new and needed information. * *