26 APRIL 1930, Page 29

The experience of the author of Six Months in the

Red Army, (Hutchinson, 12s. 6d.), was certainly_ thrilling in the extreme. though the diary is rather spoiled by its hysterical style The later chapters, giving an account of the Soviet in action are more moderate in tone. _ We may have our spines curled every day, without extra charge, by the accounts of " Bol- shevik atrocities," in the daily papers, but there will probably be people who are willing to pay 12s. 6d. for more of it.