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... 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 ...
... attack upon Britain's West Indian stewardship, but a moderately entertaining account of the wanderings of Mr. Brown in the Caribbean, of his ship board companions and experiences. He touches only upon the fringe of Jamaican life, and at the finish the reader ...
... deserves a stiff cover. Katherine Dunham, the coloured ballet star, was in London in the autumn of 1948, when she appeared in Caribbean Rhapsody, and, believe it or not, gave a lecture before the Royal Anthropological Institute. In KATHERINE DUNHAM HER DANCERS ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... new book, Sun and Heir (Peter Davies. 8s. 6d.), is a satire or a farce, or both, and its action takes place on a nameless Caribbean island with such charming characters as Polly de la Pourriture and Millicent Casa de Puta. If the fun gets a little rough ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...