... Lieutenant-Colonel T. R. St. Johnston, who is Administrator of St. Kitts in the West Indies, knows and loves the peoples of the Caribbean; and the thirteen short stories in A West Indian Pepper-Pot (Philip Allan, 10s. 6d.) are filled with strong sunshine and ...

... route to a Paris guillotine, has been released for the great sea fight and has then founded a colony on an island of the Caribbean, a colony com plete with men, women and children, and especially with a leader. He has been, accom panied throughout by Marianne ...

... 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 ...

... -Johnston. Illustrated in colour by Eva Wilkin. (Philip Allan. 10s. 6d. net.) This is a series of thirteen short stories of the Caribbean peoples, over which the author rules in his capacity of Admi nistrator of St. Kitts. Already known as a scientific writer ...

... ideas of early civilisation in Central America, and, incidentally, has filled in his time with fishing for manatee off the Caribbean coast. He gives some good photographs ot the results ol ms varied activities, and tells a good though rather lengthy tale ...

... scarcely seemed to warrant her virtuous indignation. Smuggled out of the town by her naval sweetheart, she is landed on a Caribbean island where a bunch of wanted men lies doggo. The rest of the picture depicts the lonely girl, sullen, bored to the extent ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ), by Hazel Ballance Eadie. Now, myself and other ignoramuses can learn in the most alluring manner that they are in the Caribbean Sea, and, for these times, are astonishinsly difficult of access. We are apt to think that all the habitable and most of ...