2 JULY 1927, Page 25

The Wonder Book of Aircraft (Ward, Lock and Co., Os.)

is not only wonderful value for the money, and one of the best boys' books we have seen for a long time ; it is also a book that will delight the " air-minded " adult. We notice a trifling error where it is said that passengers arc weighed at Croydon instead of (as actually happens) at Airways House. But the book is, generally speaking, up to date and amusingly written by experts. It is not, of course, for the student of aeronautics, but rather for the general public, whose ideas about flying arc still so lamentably vague;