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(Continued from page 129.) Scotland Yard and the Metropolitan Police, by Mr. J. F. Moylan, is one of the Whitehall Series, and as such designed rather to instruct than to amuse. This it does very success- fully, and, moreover, the book appears at an opportune moment. It is calculated, by its description of the methods employed in the training and. discipline of the Force, and not less by its eminently fair and reasonable tone, to dispel much of the nonsense talked and written about the Police, especially in regard to Hyde Park offenders and the mythical " third degree." Its description of the welter of corruption and danger which existed previous to 1829, presided over rather than dispelled by the Bow Street Runners and some of the Justices of the time, should also increase our appre- ciation, not only of the forethought of Sir Robert Peel, but of the position gained through the devotion of every member of the Force.
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