1 MARCH 1919, Page 20

A Broken Journey. By Mary Gaunt. (T. Werner Laurie. 18s.

not.)—This interesting book of travel describes a journey in 1913.14 through remote Shansi, to the west of Peking, and then through Eastern Siberia to Saghalien. The author started on her homeward journey through Siberia at the outset of the *war, and describes the curious scenes of the mobilization. Her steamer from Finland to Sweden was stopped by a German warship, apparently through Finnish treachery, and tho British male passengers on board were taken away as prisoners. The book is well illustrated with photographs of the scenery and people of Shansi.