14 DECEMBER 1929, Page 35

In Game Birds (Eyre and Spottiswoode, £3 3s.) Mr. Hugh

Pollard points out that in spite of our increased population (and we might add, agricultural distress) more gun and game licences are taken out than ever before, pheasants are being reared in greater numbers, and the rent of moors in both Yorkshire and Scotland has increased. " Many a Scots laird

would be a poor man were he dependent on the agricultural value of his moors alone." Moreover, mechanical transport and syndicate shoots have altered both the range and the economies of our field sports. Such a book, beautifully illustrated as it is by Mr. Philip Rickman, dealing with the rearing and preservation of game birds, and their shooting, was wanted, and will be of value to sportsmen. * *