3 OCTOBER 1914, Page 7

The Orient Express. By Arthur Moore. (Constable and Co. 7s.

6d. net.)—Mr. Moore boarded that wonderful train, the Orient express, as a Times correspondent on his way to Turkey and Persia. When he returned he brought with him some additional luggage in the shape of mental travel-pictures, and these he attempts, with considerable success, to communi- cate to the reader of his book. He begins by asking us to join him inside besieged Tabriz in 1909, and he ends at a palmist's in Bond Street. The one scene is strung to the other by a thread of romantic adventures, which make the book extremely readable.