... what to most of us will be the best of him, in his fiction. A bitingly cold winter's day in England and a book about the Caribbean islands The contrast is realty too sharp to be kind, but it does at least heighten one's appreciation of a book by Miss Rosita ...

... Books Reviewed by Trevor zAllen BROWNING never wrote Oh, to be in the Caribbean, now that April's there The misquote is mine, after reading in Rosita Forbes's Islands in the Sun (Evans, 12s. 6d.) Sea-murmur under palm trees, music imported from three ...

... work altogether, but it has its own kind ol value. Mr. Derrick Ball and his wife decided after the war to travel to the Caribbean and to look about for their ideal site for living as embodied in the title. Trinidad they found too commercial and crowded ...

... dis appeared from Pasadena five years ago. A1 traces the old car number, and this takes him indirectly to La Ceiba, on the Caribbean coast, to Puerto Barrios, Guatemala's main Atlantic port, back to Mexico City and down to Santiago in Chile, where he meets ...

... with the fabulous career of Henry Morgan, the bold buccaneer captain. This extraordinary figure fought the Spaniards in the Caribbean for the excellent reason that he hated them, and won himself fortunes, and women, too, for the reason that he loved both ...

... Murray's The Neat Little Corpse (Michael Joseph. 9s. 6d.), a watertight story, if you will forgive me, about a yachtsman jn the Caribbean Seas who, from his anchored boat, first observes a floating and murdered body, and remarks pleasantly, as in the title, on ...

... Robert Henriques. Collins 10s. 6 d.) Reprint of a novel of 1939. GOLDEN GATES. By Joseph Cabot. (Museum Press 9s. 6 d.) Caribbean goings-on in the late eighteenth century told pleasantly but with no particular distinction. ...

... in haste. and repents at leisure. The others have similarly well-told if less well-worn themes. A TROPICAL romance of a Caribbean island in the bad slave days is Joseph Cabot's Golden Gates (Museum Press, 9s. 6d.), in which the Governor's wife falls ...

... Here Moshikin (Miles Malleson) is having a somewhat lengthy get-together with his ward, Masha (Sheila Shand-Gibbs). In Caribbean Cabaret the music was provided by a Steel Band, an astonishing conglomeration of instruments made out of old oil-drums each ...

... 10s. 6d.). This is a story, told in an appropriately vivid style, of the fabulous career of Henry Morgan who, from being a Caribbean pirate 300 years ago, was knighted by Charles II and became Lieutenant- Governor of Jamaica. I enjoyed this book mightily ...

... staunch, solid foil, another lieutenant, and the captain a madman from whom the command will rightly pass in the heat of Caribbean battles. As ever, this writer tells an exciting story with admirable tension and spirit, and succeeds in convincing the most ...

... A BOAT Tolerance and a Well-developed Sense of Humour Go Hand-in-Hand With a Spirit of Adventure in a Family Trip to the Caribbean -By VERNON FANE SAILING and living in a 5-ton ocean racer takes a stout heart as well as a steady stomach, but there are ...