OTHER NOVELS.
THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD. By Philip Gibbs. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d. net.)—Sir Philip Gibbs in his new novel writes with an awful impartiality. The story is negligible, and the interest of the book lies entirely in the pictures he presents of post-War Europe. He takes his principal character for a journalistic tour, first to France, then to Germany, and then to Russia, and lie shows his bewildered readers with perfect impartiality all that is to be said on behalf of the government and people of each nation concerned. The result is complete chaos in the reader's mind and absolute despair as to the future of Europe. For sheer sordid horror it would be impossible to beat Sir Philip Gibbs's descriptions of modern Russia. Readers to be able to finish the chapters in which he deals with that unhappy country must indeed be possessed of a strong stomach. The book is to be recommended, if not as fiction, yet as an account of present-day political conditions.
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