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THE SHAME DANCE. BY WILBUR DANIEL STEELE. (Fisher Unwin; 7s. 6d.)

... curious ceremony called the shame dance. But Mr. Steele has given us a collection of stories about the South Seas, the Caribbeans, and North Africa. The title story tells how an idle fellow, Signet, a get-rich-quick-without- working skunk, proposes to ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: 66 | Tags: Review 

AT THE SIGN OF THE CINEMA: DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS

... and yet I- like her. The veteran square-rigger Charles W. Morgan, built in New Bradford in 1842, whose activities in the Caribbean Sea form the crux of the film, is a very gallant vessel, carrying her bulging canvas beautifully despite her eighty -odd ...

Published: Wednesday 05 December 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 613 | Page: 102 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS IN BRIEF: Short Reviews of the New Publications

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1929
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 915 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

REVIEWS: SHORTER NOTICES OF RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS

... -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 ...

Published: Saturday 22 September 1928
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1057 | Page: 48 | Tags: Review 

THE LIBRARY LIST: Some of the New Season's Books

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 27 November 1926
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1095 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS IN BRIEF: Short Reviews of the New Publications

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1929
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 915 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

MODERN LIFE IN BOOKS: Gauginizing the artist in fiction--The cult of the bar sinister--Shanklin of the Foreign ..

... Grandt, a newspaper man, is more concerned with copy than with sunken treasure; and his expedition in search of it off a Caribbean island is more of a stunt than a hunt. He collects a movie operator (film rights), a novelist (serial rights), and a Don ...

Published: Saturday 19 March 1927
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1786 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: I. THE STAG, AT THE GLOBE; THE NEW MOON, AT DRURY LANE

... the New Moon, she joins the emigrants who, in the same ship, will seek fresh woods and pastures new in a new colony in the Caribbean Sea. When we reach that island and witness the happenings under the leadership of the ex-bondman, things become, perhaps ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1929
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1714 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

BARRIE and CAREL CAPEK Engage the Attention of ARNOLD PALMER

... leave in the com pany of the children for England. The vessel is captured by the last or almost the last pirates sailing the Caribbean Sea. After remaining with the pirates for some weeks, the children are trans ferred to another boat, and resume their inter ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1929
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1800 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: John Masefield

... There are several Santa Barbaras, and this is the Santa Barbara in the department of Honduras, bounded on the north by the Caribbean Sea. Santa Barbara, writes Mr. Masefield, setting out his scene, lies far to leeward, i with a coast facing to the north ...

Published: Wednesday 05 November 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2543 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review