Two Irish stories follow—George Nash's tale of a temperamental donkey,
Timothy John and Mr Murphy (Collins, 10s. 6c1.), and Walter Macken's Island of the Great Yellow Ox (Mac- millan, 16s.), a story of Druid treasure and mysterious yachts. This last has a magical wild- ness and beauty, Alan C. Jenkins's Wild Swans at Suvanto (Hart-Davis, 18s.), is set in Lapland. To the Lapp people, the wild swans come as a symbol of summer, and men, women and children feel as if they have been born all over again. Drought, by Andrew Salkey (O.U.P., 13s. 6d.), brings out vividly, and in language deft as a child's laughter, the extremes of life in Jamaica— the heated land, the inflamed imaginations. Roosevelt Grady, by Louisa R. Shotwell (Bodley Head, 13s. 6d.), does the same sort of thing in a different setting. Both these books are illustrated with drawings of great tenderness and warmth.
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