27 OCTOBER 1923, Page 28

The Tragedy of Central Europe. By E. Ashmead-Bartlett. (Thornton Butterworth.

21s.)

Mr. Bartlett is at his best in descriptions of the events in which he actually took part, such as the Bolshevist revolution in Hungary and the capture by Royalist officers of the -Hun- garian Embassy in Vienna. His extremely vivid despatches

(of which readers of the Daily Telegraph have already had the advantage) give valuable information about affairs of which little is generally known, though most of it is unfortunately two years old. The habit of drawing a generalization from insufficient evidence detracts from the value of his conclusions.