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IN the '7O's. The latest ones to re-
appear in London are "Phineas Finn"
and "Phineas Redux." These novels
have been republished by Messrs.
Bell. Anthony Trollope had the art
to make his fiction independent of
time. Therefore. his work is not
obsolete, he is not old-fashioned.
This is because his characters are
living types, instinct with humanity,
alive with the rich, red blood of true
men and women. Anthony Trollope
grasped and described facts, realities
Human passions interested him and
his heart and mind united in the
effort to describe them and paint
them for the entertainment and in
struction of those who should read his
books. His art illustrated innumer-
able phases of life and never weakly.
His knowledge of the world was aa
profound as his insight into the
well-springs of human activity. His
pictures of love were as delightful
as his political scenes and Incidents
were minute and satisfactory. His
ecclesiastical characters were mimi
table. Who that has read "Barches-
ter Towers" can forget it's fidelity as
a semblance of churchly dignity?
Who that remembers THE Small
House at Arlington" does not feel a.
thrill as he recalls the climax of the
great trial scene, regarded by Eng
disappearing advocates of fame and
learning as one of the most faithful.
most successful pictures of a mighty
legal contest ever framed in words
in fiction? Or, who that thinks with
sad remembrance of Harry Hotspur
and his lovely affianced wife can re-
frain from shuddering anew at that
picture of weak, selfish man and
the horror OF enslavement from debt?
Then one recalls the red Lord Chill
tern and his violet-eyed, dainty
sweetheart and countless other lovely
creations OF girlhood or womanhood.
bland with the charm of the English
maiden and proud in the environment
or wealth and high and ancient
lineage! Few, indeed, are the writ
ers OF fiction of the twentieth CEN
fury whose creations will arise he
fore the reader as pleasant visions
thirty years hence.
AT time when the press is filled
with comment on the backwardness
or aeronautics in the United States a
most significant sign of revival of in
terest in this science was the presen-
tation on May by the Smithsonian
institution of the Langley medals to
Gustav E1ffel, of France, and Glenn
n. Curtlss, of the United States. The
FRENCH ambassador, M. Jusserand
accepting the medal on behalf of M.
Eiffel, spoke Of him as lover 80 years
OLD, out with the enthusiasm of
youth, and one of the men of whom
france is most proud" France NAV
well be proud of M. Eiffel. for 1t in
chiefly as result of his researches
That the art of aeroplane design has
been finally based on sound en-
gineering principles. His book sThe
Resistance of the Air and Aviation,
mas speen translated into English by
Lieutenant Jerome C. Hunsaker. u.
s. N. so that the results of Eiffers
experiments are now within reach Of
all who are interested III the sub
ject.
Probably not many travellers who
stop to look at the Eiffel Tower con-
slider 1t as anything more than one
among the many objects of interest
in European tour. 1t has a mis-
sion much greater than thir, how
ever, for the builder, Gustav Eiffel,
made important use of it in the be-
ginning of his experiments to deter
mine the resistance of the air. M.
Eiffel, who was born in 1882, COM
pleted the Eiffel tower in 1889 and
then turned his energies to the study
of the atmosphere and of the winds.
and finally to aerial flight. From
1902 to 1906 he determined the resist
ance OF the air to bodies and plates
dropped from the tower, and in 1909
he built his now famous aero
dynamic laboratory at the Champ de
Mars and commenced a series of
tests to determine the characteristics
OF wings, bodies, frames, propellers
ana complete model aeroplanes. His
published report, now translated into
English by Lieutenant Hunsaker and
published by the Houghton- Miffiin
Company under the title Resistance
or the Air and Aviation" gives a.
minute account of his experiments.
throughout the whole work the
working of great mind is evident.
Delicate methods for precise obser-
Vations are devised. and still more
celicate methods called upon to check
results. Fundamental phenomena are
analyzed with such clear reason that
the mysterious behavior of the un-
seen air is resolved into a play of
apparently simple mechanical forces.
A vast collection of what we might
call engineering data is collected. in
terpreted, summarized and finally
applied to furnish the foundation for
the rational development of aeroplane
design. The really complex relations
between the elements of weight.
speed, area, power, etc., are brought
from aregion of foggy obscurity into
the domain Of familiar physical laws.
1t is in such powers OF generalization
and application that we recognize the
creative force of the great engineer.
Lieutenant Hunsaker, naval con-
structor detailed by the government
to superintend the courses in aero
nautics at the Massachusetts Insti-
tute Of Technology, has made a no.
table contribution to aeronautics in
this country by translating Eiffeps
master work. This book, which was
published on July 9, by Houghton-
Miffiin Company, should do much to
help retrieve our reputation in this
new and important branch Of science.
John w. Harding, author of "The