The Unending Quest. By Sir Paul Dukes. (Cassell. 16s.) rHE
least interesting portion of this very. interesting book is the portion to which the author himself appears to attach most Importance, that dealing with the principles and practice of Yoga. He is deeply con- vinced of the influence of the body on the mind and has undergone various rigours, including a fast of three weeks, in order to achieve the ideal relationship. His adven- tures in Russia as a member of the British Secret Service were described in an earlier volume, but other experiences in that strange country, as related here, make fascinating reading. The author's life as a musician at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire, his experi- ments with spiritualism in that city. his contact with a faith-healer named Leo Levtitch, and his own involuntary achieve- ments in faith-healing in South Russia—all this makes an admirable narrative, and interest is more than sustained when Sir Paul moves to America (enter Yoga), ultimately back to London and th.ence, at the instance of a lady astrologist, to Egypt, there to spend a night alone in the King's Chamber in the heart of the Great Pyramid. Sir Paul Dukes has tested life in his own way as few people have, and not all would desire to. What he has got out of it all is not perfectly clear, in spite of his closing chapter. But his search for the key is abundantly
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