fully warranted in this beauti fully. told story. No doubt that} attraction was heightened for the present writer by the fact of his Mr, Inskipp's book when lly passing through the seas in which the story is laid and thus being under direct spell of blinding light, impossibly blue water and the almost diabolical beauty of tropical shores. But for readers anywhere powerful The author is a "Monsoon " must exercise master of description, so deftly conveyed that one feels the ver} phere of one's surroundings without being aware of how it has been conveyed.
Excellent too are the people of the tale, Captain Schumann the: Dutch skipper, Turner the old mate, and Oroncaya, the villainous native chief. The otter especially is a, great creation. His daughter Main-una and her love affair with Burke, who tells the story leaves one in some doubt, and her ultimate disappearance brings the book to an end a little lamely. But as a whole "Monsoon Magic" is 50 fresh, vivid, and natural that it is Poor work finding fault of any kind. Apart from the main thread of the story there are delightful little pie-tures in it, like Weidum's restaurant in Batavia and above all Captain Schumann's wedding on the desert island. Never have we read a first novel of greater promis> and not too many of later creation to rival ithe attraction of "Monsoon Magic."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.