3 MAY 1913, Page 17

THE EMPIRE OF THE AIR.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "Srsonaos.1 SER,—Froude begins his " English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century " thus : " Jean Paul, tjna German poet, said that God had given to France the empire of• the land, to England the empire of the sea, and to his own country the empire of the air." Is this to be P—I am, Sir, &c., - -