Mr. Stephen Graham is the possessor of a clever gift
for writing, and is, moreover, an enthusiast for Russia. and Russian ideals, and, we may add, for his own ideals as well. His new book upon Russia and the World (Cassell and Co., 10s. 6d. net.) has as its sub-title "A Study of the Was and a Statement of the World-Problems that Now Confront Russia and Great Britain," and it will therefore be read with particular interest at the present time. The earlier chapters (many of which appeared originally in the Times) describe the begin- ning of the war• as the author saw it in the heart of Russia. At the end of July Mr. Graham was in a Cossack village on the frontier of Mongolia, nearly a thousand miles south of the Siberian Railway, and from there he turned westward, travelling through Moscow as far as Warsaw, and returning to London through Petrograd and Scandinavia. He succeeds in giving a most lifelike picture of the attitude of the peasant soldier to the war, and this is perhaps the most valuable part of the book. The latter section of it is devoted to more abstract matters, upon which 31r. Graham's grasp is a little leas certain.
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