3 DECEMBER 1927, Page 49

A thoroughly exciting story for boys from end to end

is Mr. Lowell Thomas's Boys' Life of Colonel Lawrence (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d.). His account is vivid and racy and appeals to that zest for destruction which is characteristic of childhood. A boy after reading it will certainly dream of "planting tulips" under Turkish railway lines, and of dynamiting bridges, riding fleet she-camels, and leading turbulent Bedouin to victory. But he will be none the worse for that, for he will also learn something of Colonel Lawrence's simplicity and courage, and will be made to feel that the days of high adventure are not dead.