26 JANUARY 1929, Page 31

A WEST INDIAN PEPPER-POT. By Lieutenant-Colonel T. R. St.-Johnston. (Allan.

10s. 6d.}-The Administrator of St. Kitts is well known as a writer on West Indian problems. Here in a lighter mood he strings together thirteen 'short Stories, mostly reflecting the humour and pathos of the humble negro's life. " The Dominican from Santo Domingo," a record of a life of toil and suffering in the so-called Republic, and t` The Hawker of Nassau," an old woman who outwits a dishonest American Jewess, are perhaps the best of a readable and unusual series, for which Miss Eva Wilkin supplies clever and lively portrait-sketches in colour.