7 FEBRUARY 1925, Page 18

The history of the past six or seven years in

Hungary should have much light thrown upon it by the publication of Fighting the World : the Struggle for Peace, by Count Michael Karolyi, ex-premier of Hungary (Kegan Paul). Count Karolyi is now an exile in England ; his estates have been confiscated by the Hungarian Government ; but at one time he was one of the most important statesmen in Europe. "To write these pages," he says, "wag a duty to history and to myself. To history, for I know things which no one else can know-; to myself, for I am being bombarded with charges which it is my duty to repel."

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