It is nearly eleven years ago since that bearded patriarch Trader Horn broke into print through the medium of Mrs. Ethelreda Lewis and delighted the world with his adventures.
Published first as "The Ivory Coast in the Earlies" his story went into eleven editions and later, as "Trader Horn," received one way and another ten impressions. Here is the Penguin Edition, price sixpence, a tale thick with thrills at a price to suit the kets of those who are living in an ven less prosperous day, and here is his portrait for those who were still in the nursery in 1927 and may have missed it He came closer as he spoke. looking as Columbus might have looked as he begged from door to door with his Read full of the spaces of land and sea. The waxen skin and high. wide Skull stretched over with parchment and a few. grey hairs; the white beard. longish, narrow and pointed; visionary eyes that had seen a world aná seen if whoie—an imperishable picture.
The Penguin Books turn Africa to India with "An Indian Day" by Edward Thompson, a book: of many editions. Mr was for many Years professor of English in à missionary college India and at the end Principal He was forty when he wrote this book, his first novel, and that it has wit may be judged from an extract:
Meanwhile the Europeans at Vishnugram were encouraged by a most unexpected and. ursecsonable visitor. "Ihe Bishop of Burra Sappur. returning. to Khassoorie irom a brick busi trip to Calentia, remembered—>r Was reminded—that they had been Without outside spiritual consolation lor six years. He broke his Journ Hop:
left by a platitudes, most, of True, was hie reiter one feeble twitter of them doubtfully he mopped his brews or morn audience seemed ' less than they should have been.
Richard Keverne, who began his career as a schoolmaster and served in the Air Force during the war, enters the Penguin Book series with an exciting war
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.