Show Author of Sky Larking Larkin Becomes necomes Lyrical Over Flying Racket Aviators Aviator's Heartstrings I Throb to Celestial Music Music Claims Enthusiastic Editor By Ted Lone Lont Sk k Larking Larkin by Bruce Gould is ig an an unsatisfactory book perhaps l It i la even an Inconsequential one although it seems somewhat harsh to toso so label a volume as handsomely bound and illustrated as it is 18 It would bo an cas easy book t to damn daim d with wit faint t praise it is not an elS easy esy one to lambat properly for it possesses possesses pos pos- s a certain charm despite its authors author's fine Ine writing Mr Gould uld attempts to Lo explain C flying not as ns a n. technical accomplishment but as at an art His success success suc sue cess Is Js not complete for he strays from his theme th mc time and again but not to the detriment of ot his volume the history which he of offers ot- ot fers esp that of the past two yc years rs is excellent and sums up comprehensively within a few fe pages t it has has heretofore orore taken t colum columns col cot um s. s of f newsprint ne and numbers of or fliers filers memoirs to tell Mr Bruce Druce describes what he lIe calls the jo joy of or n flying ing making articulate articulate late S so his publisher believes b the experiences of countless countIess mute avla- avla lorS lie He waxes l lyrical sa saying ilS in ino o one o place The sole Hole pleasure to which flying Is comparable Is love in another The cle clean n wind intI plucks at the heartstrings and sets fets them throbbing to some somo strangely satisfying satis satis- celestial music m of the tle spheres and elsewhere o of or th same type Flying hying is poetic as as nothing modern IB Is Is poetic he hc d declares and n adds tho the belief that p et to come othe wL will 1 sing sins of or It ft something not unexpected even by th those sc crass p per r sons sons' sons Sons' who drudge upon the Ule earth arth Lindbergh cornea comes in for n a a 1 laige Re amount of praise end dh discussion n. n He lie Hela lieIs la Js given given- givena it a chapter to and andIs' andIs andis is Is' mentioned often elsewhere but ly Mr Mm- Gould not only praises Alcock Acock cock and amid Brown but ad admits nd- nd mits that th they made th tho first lt nonstop non- non st stop p flight across cros' th time tho Atlantic which is lese lose majesty or something something some some- thing considering that Mr Gould L l U t. t 1 I 1 Evening Post The rho chapter on Lindbergh is as g is to be expected ted Mr Gould uses uses' all ill the usual l ad adjectives adjectives ml- ml and In describing describing- his heros hero's personality tells how that personality impressed ed him so greatly that t he lie was certain of Lind Lindbergh's berghs bergh's success in opposition to the now-converted now kep- kep opinions ons of or th the tics After thus hus pu putting himself I among the most enthusiastic Lind- Lind Ites bergh-Ites Mr fr Gould then then admits that luc luck and alid a great deal more nore ma may have aided In tho the flights flight's sue suc cess All AU In all Sk Sky Larking Lancing Is not as bad as it might h have ve ve b been en considering considering con can the thc sort p of t tripe which Is tur turned ed out on i a aviation Uon It It is however however however how how- ever an UI unsatisfactory book fos to it Is n not nearly ms as good us as as' as it it conid COlucI have haie been It H will do however to tu tore re read d' d and n-d n perl perhaps a s enjoy the the- bc beautiful beau beau- illustrations tr b by Cosmo Clark Cak C l will greatly Increase tho the enjoyment enjoy ment rhey They are all an that drawings draw l 3 for tal a n book on on tIme the Joy of or fling Hying should be Horace Horace ht New York Yorki |