Isles of Illusion. Edited by Bohun Lynch. (Constable. 7s. 6d.)
This is a collection of letters written to Mr. Lynch by a friend who went out to the South Seas. They cover the years 1912 to 1920, and form a very frank and interesting statement of what the writer saw, felt and thought during these years, years of exile and adventure. The writer, who prefers to remain anonymous, shows himself to be a person of no ordinary temperament, and does not disguise his various reactions to the life he deliberately chose for himself. Sometimes he admits to being completely satisfied with the " lotus-eating " existence of the islands, and scorns Europe and its civilization ; at other times he curses the Pacific, its islands and all their works, and longs for a return to England and the life he once knew. But everywhere he is nothing if not frank, assertive and picturesque, and his letters are at once an entertaining record of travel and the revelation of unusual personality.
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