If you were to hear that two boys, accompanying a South Polar expeditionin charge of the aeronautic department, were to penetrate the Antarcticregions--hitherto only attained by a few daring explorers--you would feelinterested, wouldn't you? Well, in Captain Lawton's latest book,concerning his Boy Aviators, you can not only read absorbing adventurein the regions south of the eightieth parallel, but absorb much usefulinformation as well. Captain Lawton introduces--besides the originalcharacters of the heroes--a new creation in the person of ProfessorSimeon Sandburr, a patient seeker for polar insects. The professor'sadventures in his quest are the cause of much merriment, and lead onceor twice to serious predicaments. In a volume so packed with incidentand peril from cover to cover--relieved with laughable mishaps to theprofessor--it is difficult to single out any one feature; still, a recentreader of it wrote the publishers an enthusiastic letter the other day,saying: "The episodes above the Great Barrier are thrilling, the attackof the condors in Patagonia made me hold my breath, the--but what's theuse? The Polar Dash, to my mind, is an even more entrancing book thanCaptain Lawton's previous efforts, and that's saying a good deal. Theaviation features and their technical correctness are by no means theleast attractive features of this up-to-date creditable volume."