... a visit which he paid last year to South America. He steamed in a 15, 000- ton liner down the Atlantic coast, across the Caribbean Sea, through the Panama Canal, and down to Lima, and he records his impressions with the bland urbanity, the wealth of literary ...

... romantic she and it was reasonable that she should fall for a picturesque Jamaican planter, who in turn ships her off to the Caribbean, ill-treats her and squanders her hard-earned fortune. Again on the romantic trail, she falls in love with a handsome quadroon ...

... commercial suc cess and he lived the rest of his life in squalid poverty. Hating Western civilisation he wandered first to the Caribbean (where he actually worked as a labourer on the Panama Canal diggings for a few sous a day), and afterwards to the South Seas ...

... thing about it are the interpolations in which the middle- aged heroine advises and directs the lives of the natives of her Caribbean island. BOOKS RECEIVED D. APPLETON-CENTURY COMPANY.-- Anything J Can Happen. By George Gibbs. 7s. 6d. ARTHUR i BARKER. Even ...

... The World of Books Four Londoners on a Caribbean Is /and Provide the Theme jor Rose Macaulay s 1 IPou Id be Private Richard Chu rch humiliates the Ti^ide Humanity of Charles Pickens Reviewed By VERNON FANE MISS Rose Macaulay has one of those supreme ...

... British justice are weighted in favour of the rich and the great, takes himself and his family off to the islands of the Caribbean. Yet even here the quins and their parents are followed about and run after, until the only solution is to give up the unequal ...

... the hero in the classic 'twixt love and duty quandary. Trouble over the customs at Bianca somewhere, one sur mises, on the Caribbean seaboard leads to revolution, heralded by a knife aimed at the genial President, who finds refuge, together with a group ...

... the sea and ships, he does so as one who knows the ropes. In this book he tells how the s.s. Marino burned and sank in the Caribbean. Before the event we are introduced to some of the crew and passengers. We learn of their relations to one another and in ...

... a number of passengers adrift in a derelict ship that is bound to sink in the next storm that ruffles the surface of the Caribbean Sea. When we first meet them, the characters seem to have settled down more placidly than might have been expected to talking ...

... Andrew Jackson who afterwards became the seventh President of the United States. Lafitte, the pirate, the scourge of the Caribbean, goes to the assistance of Jackson, and so brings some patriotism into his wild and reckless life. All the usual accom paniments ...

... surprise and rarity of Arcadias invites us to destroy them, as the men of that century murdered the bird-like Indians of the Caribbean in the name of God, and as their successors poisoned the earthly paradises of Tahiti and the Pacific Islands. As one reads ...

... an original mind and a great deal of insight his novel is just that much better than a romance of the inevitably romantic Caribbean. AND BE A VILLAIN (Ivor Nicholson and Watson. 7s. 6d.) deals with at least five of the stages between death and dishonour ...