... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...