19 NOVEMBER 1904, Page 8

the story of the inventor, lends, of course, unusual interest

to the accounts of Marconi's invention and the airships of Santos-Dumont. Railways and bridges are older affairs ; much of their romance is common property ; so that Mr. Doubleday does little more than describe their working and building. There must always be a demand for such a book as this from the healthy boy, and cer- tainly nothing could be more entertaining than the adventures of Santos-Dumont.