... replied Naw, Sah I've got a shilling, seems to sum up the native philosophy. This is an admirable intro duction to the West Indies, from Butlin's Grand Bahama to Trinidad, because it mirrors economic conditions and the life of the people as well as pleasure ...

... even while enjoying it, will wish they could get their hands on Shireen's novel of Jamaica round about 1700 instead? A WEST INDIES island affords scope for much colour-problem conflict in Phyllis Bottome's Under the Skin (Faber, 10s. 6d.). Her Lucy ...

... Palos to San Salvador, by way of the Canaries, with two companions. Storms lashed but could not halt them. They made the West Indies, where Mr. Mielche descended m a diving bell of his own designing to the palace of the Mermaid Queen a fairy forest, a ...

... ever cease blowing? We pray not. C. S. Forester, in 'Lieutenant Hornblower (Michael Joseph, 12s. 6d.), heads him for the West Indies in a ship with a mad captain. He more or less blows the man down a hatchway, achieves command himself, brings off a coup ...

... tempestuous to a wild outburst of jealousy, culminating in murder. Verdict a brilliant description of life in the sunny West Indies, with its attendant dramas, jealousies, pleasures and complexes, heightened to the temperature of a hot-blooded, childlike ...