6 DECEMBER 1924, Page 24

Tuts is an excellent and exhaustive account of the develop-

ment of the locomotive ; it is more profusely illustrated than any book of the kind we remember seeing. It is perhaps rather too full of detail to make exciting reading. Mr. Gibbard Jackson has not set out to amuse us ; he has been trying to produce a book packed with information. Of course, it is a boy's book, really ; but it should be given only to boys who are already interested and fairly expert in the rise of our railways, and the hundreds of types of engines in use. We learn with regret that the recent " grouping " of railways is resulting in the disappearance of the named engine and the old and well-beloved brass plate,