... 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' ...

... 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. ...