... deprecates the use of such popular phrases as splendid gin and splendid potatoes. An important new travel book is BLACK CARIBBEAN, by R. W. Thompson (Macdonald and Co. 12s. 6d.). It is the record of a journey through the West Indies and gains distinction ...

... eighteen years without a cloud, arrive to spend the winter months on the British island of St. Hilda's, somewhere in the Caribbean. They have taken furnished the Villa Marina, whose owner is a globe-trotting but none the less house-proud English lady. ...

... ios. fid.) takes us about as far away as fiction can get to the Court of King James II, and to treasure-hunting in the Caribbean seas. Mr. Hamilton Cochran writes with relish of his theme, which includes the seamanship of the time, the business of ships' ...

... is the oddest, and it is also a little theatrical and a little contrived. It is the story of a shipwreck in the wartime Caribbean, with all the correct properties of a lusty he-man, a beautiful woman and her pitiable husband. None of the other stories ...

... become a parson, married, caused a girl's suicide, left holy orders and is determined to find out the meanine of it all on a Caribbean island. The book, which devotes approximately 172 pages, with never a smile, to each young man, was printed in Holland. I ...

... Scotia, where he lives, there are many traces of the sailors and privateers who, 150 years ago, sailed far south to the Caribbean Seas to make their fortunes, or to die, and it is of those men that he writes, with a good deal of lusty relish, in Pride's ...

... Tom Dover, a poor doctor in Defoe's London, Queen Anne's Eng land, who becomes the hero of breath taking exploits in the Caribbean and Pacific. We loved this kind of story in blood-and- thunder youth why not again, for light re creation, in the Income ...

... Charles B. Judah's Tom Bone (Hammond, 12s. 6d.) a 17th- century action story of romantic adventure partly in the piratical Caribbean Mr. A. B. Guthrie's The Big Sky (Boardman, 12s. 6d.), a tough U.S. pioneering yarn of the kind that always has Injuns, ...

... journey was undertaken in war conditions, plenty of courage that is implicit and never underscored in her recital. The Sunlit Caribbean (Evans. 8s. 6d.) is a collection of nostalgic travel reminiscences, rather than a guide-book. It is readable, discursive ...

... The Sunlit Caribbean. By Alec Waugh. acs os. oa.) A model travel book. It is pleasant to see what a practised and brilliant writer can do with material which might have become a mere geography lesson. -There are two true stories inset which would have ...

... our politics. I can't imagine the piece making converts. Can Washington and London afford to let an island in the South Caribbean proved to be rich in deposits vital to atomic development continue to be the scene of a significant social experiment? On ...

... for Unuto it is not his fault that the Corabanian plan falters, or that his wife, who is more of Curzon Street than the Caribbean, should turn to a tough and deplorable American suitor. Lady Fortrose might well say of Corabana as Masefield of the port ...