. St. Nicholas [serial]. By FREDERICK OBRIEN O NCE more the author has capturedbetween book covers the witcheryof the far South Sea Islands. Itwill take its place by the side ofthe most sensational travel book success of thepast ten years—Mr. OBriens extraordinaryWhite Shadows in the South Seas. Mystic Isles of the South Seas is a bookof that happiness for which we humans long;a simple, effortless, sun-warmed existence withtime to dream, time to live, to sleep, to think,to feel—even time to play; of soft airs, wavingpalms, a surge of wide waters reaching off toinfinity and smashing blue thunde
. St. Nicholas [serial]. By FREDERICK OBRIEN O NCE more the author has capturedbetween book covers the witcheryof the far South Sea Islands. Itwill take its place by the side ofthe most sensational travel book success of thepast ten years—Mr. OBriens extraordinaryWhite Shadows in the South Seas. Mystic Isles of the South Seas is a bookof that happiness for which we humans long;a simple, effortless, sun-warmed existence withtime to dream, time to live, to sleep, to think,to feel—even time to play; of soft airs, wavingpalms, a surge of wide waters reaching off toinfinity and smashing blue thunder intodazzling white against a coral reef inside ofwhich is peace. In it are gentle, wonderfulplaymates, men and women—the women asfrankly friendly as the men, and not one ofeither who dare not stick a rose behind theear. It tells of the place where Rui, orRobert Louis Stevenson, lived in the house of Ori-a-Ori, and the fine dignified sav-age himself with whom the beloved writer changed names as a The facts of old monuments, language and legends have sympathetic lightthrown on them; and the story of the scourge of the whites upon this happylife is passionately told. How shall one choose what to tell of such a book? The farcial beginnings ofsyndicalism in a wildly funny and completely abortive I. W. W. fish strike?The philosopher who lived in a hencoop? The most truthful sea stories ofLying Bill and his virtuous circle? The godless, merry Coney Island-Parislife of Papeete with its human tragedies? It is impossible to choose. This is a book of marvels loved, craved, avidly desired bysomething deep within our human nature. Itmust be as universal in its appeal as are thesedesires and cravings. Profusely illustrated from photographs. Price $ Also by the same author WHITE SHADOWS INTHE SOUTH SEAS THE book is an amazing record of theauthors residence for a year amongthe beautiful, simple, friendly inhab-itants of the Marquesas Islands inthe far South Seas. I
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