24 SEPTEMBER 1921, Page 21

My South Sea Sweetheart. By Beatrice Grimahaw. (Hurst and Blackett.

8s. 6d. net.)—Anyone who indulges in a passion for caves and islands—and there are more people who suffer from nostalgia for both these objects than may

• Good Grain. By Emmeline Morrison. Lan lea; John Lona. Gd. net]

be imagined—will enjoy the story of My South Sea Sweetheart, which opens with a description of a group of people living in groat comfort and civilization in an adapted cave on an island in the South Seas. When the heroine's father dies she is sent for educa- tion to another island, and, after divers sentimental complica- tions, commits suicide by throwing herself into the sea, but is rescued, and left at a third, apparently uninhabited, island, in which there is a mysterious empty house. Here she goes through some adventures which are really blood-curdling, and which will cause the nervous reader to lie awake at night. The book is not particularly convincing, but it is excellent reading for those who like sensational adventures.