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THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... drawings of the Caribbean Islands at Walkers Galleries. KINGSTON MARKET is one of the most colourful and interesting places in Jamaica. This is BRYAN DE GRINEAU'S impression of it. The private view of his show of drawings of the Caribbean Islands at Walker's ...

Published: Wednesday 21 June 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2762 | Page: 60 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... defiance of grammar rules. You don't need to be a purist to shudder at him, and I advise the sen sitive to begin this volume, Caribbean Nights, at Chapter Two. Otherwise they might not read on and that would be a pity, for he 's worth reading. He spent a ...

Published: Wednesday 06 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2238 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

The Life and Death of the Prince Imperial: An Engrossing Study of the Son of Napoleon III, and Other Books of ..

... describes his year in Jamaica, and leaves no adjective unturned in a praiseworthy effort to give the reader his money's worth. CARIBBEAN NIGHTS (Robert Hale. 12s. 6d.) is colourful from the wrapper to the last word. It certainly tells in effective detail just ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1774 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS

... class family her dramatic focus, has presented that dynamic period to us in miniature. NOW, to leave novels for a moment, Caribbean Nights by William J. Makin (Robert Hale, 12s. 6d.) is an unusual travel book by this popular author, recount ing his experiences ...

Published: Sunday 01 October 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2495 | Page: 84 | Tags: Review 

The Bystander Bookshelf: The Silver Spoons

... they play at miscegenation. And I will say nothing about Mr. La Yarre being- abducted by an island of lonely ladies in the Caribbean, for it might be thought I was cribbing from Dumas. Mr. La Yarre ls as good a story-teller as that. He is one of the grand ...

Published: Wednesday 25 September 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1406 | Page: 23 | Tags: Review 

A CLASSIC, SATIRE, WAR AND TRAVEL: Thomas Hardy Illustrated; The Craziness of Thurber; How France Fell; Was ..

... than Christopher Columbus. The America he first sighted was the island of San Salvador one of the Bahamas. THE PRODIGIOUS CARIBBEAN (Cassell. i5s.) bears the sub-title, Columbus to Roose velt. The American age, says the publisher, has yet to begin. It ...

Published: Saturday 18 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1782 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

FICTIONAL FINESSES IN VARIED FORM: C. S. Forester's Yankee Hero; Norah Hoult Guys the Deep South School; A ..

... fleets. Mr. Forester, who is never more at home than upon the deck of a sailing vessel, ploughing the Atlantic, running the Caribbean, or upon an}' of the waters of the Seven Seas, has a fine old time with his hero among the convoys and merchant shipping ...

Published: Saturday 23 August 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1850 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

CINEMA CAMEOS

... concerned with anything but high adventure, with the attempts of the Governor of Jamaica to restore law and order in the Caribbean. There is no lack of sword- play, fisticuffs, drinking, shooting and swashbuckling in the film, and even a glimpse of a Spanish ...

Published: Wednesday 05 May 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1984 | Page: 9 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... Ravine, in the Botanic Garden. They both exemplified the Victorian romanticism which had come to seem the main appeal of the Caribbean. Of the nine English visitors whose experiences in the West Indies Mr. Pope-Hennessy retells, two lived in the sixteenth ...

Published: Wednesday 03 November 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1776 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

Books

... Spain for Mr. Secretary Walsingham; the other is all for Drake, Hawkins, and the Spanish Main. Both eventually meet in the Caribbean when Amyas boards the Spanish ship in which Roger, a prisoner, serves as galley slave. A novel of piping adventure, with ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1375 | Page: 70 | Tags: Review 

NEW BOOKS IN SERIOUS VEIN

... body as combat artists, and sent on active duty to ships and ground units in the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Aleutians, the Caribbean and North Africa. The result of their work is extremely impressive and important, not as a rival to the art of photography ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1701 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Through Unknown Nicaragua

... nca is indeed unknown had it een better known, Mr. Mervyn G. Palmer surely would never have attempted to cross it from the Caribbean to the Pacific Ocean ,vith only £20 as his whole fortune. As a result of this trip many ani tals, etc., hitherto unknown ...