The Man Who Stole the Earth

<br> "Some of the most successful of recent English novels have exploited as the materials for a fresh background and unnaccustomed situations the powers of the modern motor car. It was inevitable in these days of startling progress in aviation, that the flying machine should take its place in fiction. ..." Beside the possibility of imposing war and peace from "the battleship of the air", there is "an interesting love story, rendered more than normally exciting by the unusual circumstances of courtship". --"Fiction", <i>The Scotsman</i> 1909-11-01 p3