Diplomatic Reminiscences. By A. Nekludoff. (Murray. 21s. net.)—M. Nekludoff, a
well-known Russian diplomatist, has written an interesting volume on his experiences at Sofia from 1911 to 1914, and at Stockholm from 1914 to 1917. As Russian Minister at Sofia he had special opportunities of observing King Ferdinand and the German and Austrian intriguers who surrounded him. He describes, in particular, the disgraceful episode of June, 1913, when King Ferdinand, at the instance of the Macedonian Bulgars, who in turn were egged on by Cierinany and Austria, ordered a treacherous attack to be made on his Serbian Allies, with whom the Bulgars had just been fraternising. No fouler crime is recorded even in Balkan history. M. Nekbadoff's account of the German propaganda in Sweden during the war is of much interest. We may direct attention also to his revelations of the hopeless confusion prevailing in the court and administration at Petrograd in 1916. When Russian Ministers were working against one another, in the middle of a great war, It is not surprising that the Tsardom ool- Limed. Fortunately for the author, he was transferred to
Madrid by the Kerensky administration, and thus escaped the fate of most of his old colleagues.
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