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JCJJf MAY I, 1919 WMSMMB IN the name of the last of the three Graces, comes " Air He," a well-produced publication which you can buy for a crown, and the crust of which is simply bursting with goodies from the generous hands of well-known scribes and painters. There is a long list at the beginning, setting forth the distin guished folk who have not contributed for it ; whether this is to pillory or praise them one cannot guess ! But the men and women whose work actually appears have done well enough. THERE is a cryptic poem, " The Ballad of Saint Barbara," by Mr. G. K. Chesterton—" which is really very pretty, but I don't know what it means," as another balladmonger A ZEPPELIN GIANT.—The photograph shows how the fuselage is entered through a door in the side. sang ; certainly, it is finely and felicitously worded, as we might expect. There is a vivid and gory extract from Mr. H. G. Wells' " Joan and Peter," which merely goes to show that the folk who best describe aeronautics are those who stay on the nice flat earth, and refuse to be lured aloft. Mr. L. J. McQuilland, who is the word-juggler of the Daily Express, shows us the interior of the Cafe Royal, very acceptable to a scribe who is to be seen daily, one of a haggard line outside the National Kitchen. MR. JEFFEREY FARNOL, forsaking carnivorous blacksmiths, fair ladies in distress, and discreetly-chosen excerpts from Brantome (where discretion is advisable, as you'll grant if you have read that amiable Gaul)—where were we ?—Mr. Farnol has given us a scrap-story that is so full of X's, Y's and Z's, that it is reminiscent rather of Euclid than the high romance through which he is wont to thread so featly. W. B. MAXWELL contributes an adhesive little piece of sentimentality, atoned for by the wildly-funny drawings by Raven Hill and Heath Robinson, which follow it. Miss Marie Corelli insisted on inserting " A Reverie in the Air " ; chivalry forbids comment. Artemas is droll for a page in a Biblical style, and Mr. Harold Begbie is solemn for two pages in the same manner. But Mr. Begbie is the funnier. Stay—I had forgotten Captain Bewsher. Any scribe could guess why the offerings of Messrs. Zangwill and Pett Ridge come to appear in a work produced for charity, and he who reads them had need of that virtue. THE " Air Mechanic's Dream After Mince Pies," by A. Hayes, R.A.F., shows a fine sense of the ludicrous, and Captain Frankau has sent one of his habitual ringing rhymes. Mr. Thomas Hardy dominates the English language through the four quatrains of " Jezreel," and Mr. Robert Hichens writes a few lines on how he did not accept his first invitation to fly. The " Garden of Allah " was better. A hint is visible of Mr. Galsworthy's consummate artistry in the half- page which he has donated, and the " Summer " of Mr. Frank Brangwyn is instinct with studied form and riotous colour. Flight Cadet McMichael's drawings are as good as ever, and Mr. C. W. R. Nevinson has restrained his cubist brush long enough to produce some sightly pictures. Mr. de Vere Stac- poole's essay in petto is jolly, and Mrs. Maurice Hewlett has contributed a few reminiscences. THE book, which is an rnnual on beh; If of ihe R.A.F., edited by P.e W. Kean Seymour and Cac'et Cecil Palmer, R.A F., is a bright production, speckled with excellent photographs, and distinctly better than most Miss Sylvia Borden, who has been demonstrating the ease of leaving an aeroplane by means of a " Guardian Angel " parachute, in " jumping-off " rig, just before going up at Cricklewood in a Handley Page machine for making a descent of the mixed grills of this nature. The purchaser will have more than the mere feeling of virtue in exchange for his money. WE quote from the Daily Herald " Interview with a Demobbed Airman " :— "A thousand feet falling, the subtil wine infusing my brain to an excess of intoxication. ... I lash her in mad 574
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