14 APRIL 1928, Page 29

It was with a real feeling of pleasure that we

opened the late Mr. Stuart Wortley's Letters from a Flying Officer (Oxford University Press, 8s. 6d.) and read the preface by Mr. bilff Cooper and Colonel Buchan. To those who, like the writer, saw some of the scenes described in the introductory letters, the book will be not without interest. More we cannot Say, for it reads like the work of a sick man, which the gallant author was. Let us hope we are mistaken and that boys and girls will read the book : if they do, they will be rewarded by finding many true tales as 'splendid as anything recorded of the age of Elizabeth : yet we cannot honestly advise our readers to delve among the dullness to win the gold.