Ath p1395 D 26 ’19 500w
“Not the least stimulating portions are those devoted to the sailing vessels in which the author has pursued his study of man and nature.” Margaret Ashmun
+ Bookm 52:343 D ’20 200w + Boston Transcript p5 O 6 ’20 350w Cleveland p76 Ag ’20 70w
“The jerky transitions, the Bowdlerized legends, the tantalizing sequels that the author ‘can’t tell,’ the dialect never heard on land or sea, the author’s occasional verse ... contrive to trip the reader up time after time just as the magic joy of life is beckoning him farther into fairyland.”
− + Nation 111:786 D 29 ’20 260w
“Here is a chronicle of vagabonding among the isles of the South seas that sets him who has lived amid the cities of civilization to wondering whether or not he has squandered his life.”
+ N Y Times 25:301 Je 6 ’20 540w
“Much of the same delicate charm of fantasy which belongs to so many of the Hindu stories told us by F. W. Bain distinguishes, also, these tales of the isles in the far seas.”
+ N Y Times p26 S 12 ’20 380w
“It makes one long for Stevenson, who could be frank and downright enough, but never wrote with a leer.” E. L. Pearson