The Revelations of Inspector Morgan. By Oswald Crawford. (Chapman and
Hall. 6s.)—Mr. Crawfurd has reinstated the pro- fessional as opposed to the amateur detective, but it must be awned that to the reader of detective stories, though the plots change, the effect remains the same. The crimes detected by Inspector Morgan are of the usual nature, and although the Inspector says that his methods are entirely different from those of the amateur detective of fiction, the reader will not find any great difference in the stories of his exploits. The first tale in the book is the best, though the idea of another " Springheel Jack" will prove attractive to readers with a taste'for mechanical
ingenuities. On the whole, we cannot say that these stories are better or worse than the flood of detective fiction which is just now poured so liberally on the reading publics.
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