17 AUGUST 1912, page 19

The Aeroplane In War.* `there Can Be Only One Rational

argument for delay in providing the nation with a fleet of aeroplanes, strong in numbers and well manned, and it is that the design of aero- _planes is still so experimental......

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.RICHARD MIDDLETON.* RICHARD MIDDLETON was a young English writer who died a year ago in Brussels at the age of twenty-nine. He had never published a book, and his work......