18 JUNE 1892, Page 26

Love in the Tropics. By Caroline Earle White. (J. B.

Lippincott, Philadelphia.)—This is a "romance" of the ordinary kind. A sailor is shipwrecked on an island in the Pacific, is hospitably treated, and loves and marries the daughter of a chief. There is a hostile rival, and the wife, who could hardly be brought back to civilisation, is disposed of suitably. She saves her husband's life by intercepting an arrow meant for him. The remarkable feature in the story is the mysterious kankwara-tree, which is said to swallow up human victims much as some flowers devour ffies.