The Art of Flying.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4394, 3 April 1909, Page 3

The Art of Flying.

Ix would appear from the April number of “Life” magazine, which has just reached us, that the flying machine has been so far advanced that we may consider flying as a sport. Wilbur Wright, the most successful experimenter, who has broken all records of aeroplane flights, tells frankly of the difficulties to be encountered, but speaks enthusiasti- 1 cally of the joys and exhiliarating sensations of aviation. His aiticle, which is freely illustrated, is one of the meat interesting and most informative that we have seen. Another excellent contribution to April * Life,” and a useful one, is the first of a series of articles by Miss Beatrice Grim sh aw, the well-known authoress, who writes on the beauties of New Guinea, and promises next month to tell how big money may be made in that island. Charles Nuttall, the Aus' tralian artist, has a dig at American ideas of sport, and declares that America, the boasted land of the Free, is not half so free as his own country down under the Southern Cross. Dr. Fitchett begins what promises to be a most graphic and . picturesque series of sketches of the lives and crimes of the bushrangers of Australia. He begins with an escaped convict named Whiteheai I, who in 1810 organised a gang, and for some three years made all the orads which led into Hobart perilous; and carries the story forward to the time of 1832, when a white thug, named Lynch, enacted a string of barbarities that have rarely been equalled in the calendar of crime. Of other articles, perhaps the most striking is the story of Jomes Ltjjjq, one of the few survivors of the famous Six Hundred, who gives a modest yet stirring account of the iide that fives in history. Fiction in this (number is

strong. Frank H. Spearman relates one of his inimitable railway stories • there * is a humorous love story entitled “On Cupid’s Behalf,” apd, by way of contrast, a timely and pathetic tale of service in India, called “ Rifles for the Swazis,” Meantime, professor Van Dusen continues to figure in the succession of stirring detective stories that bear his name. The above are, of course, only the outstanding features of a magazine that is crammed full of entertainment and useful information on an amazing variety of topics.