MOORLAND TERROR. By Hugh Ilroadbridge. (Thornton Butterworth. 7s. 6d.)-We have
in this book a number of characters who may be described as human cliches. There is, for instance, an absent-minded Professor, who forgets meals while he watches birds. There is his niece, Jean, as typical a specimen of English girlhood as ever hid between the covers of a book, and there is Jean's young man, " clean and of her own open-air world." Then there is the villain who does nothing by halves. These four, together with a foolish inspector and able constable, provide the motive for a really breath-catching thriller. Although the construction of the book is as conventional as its characters, it contains a great deal of valuable natural history matter, and the descriptions of the bird visitors to Professor Willard's sanctuary would alone justify its publication.
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