Desert Isle, Inc.

THE CAUTIOUS AMORIST--Norman Lindsay--Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50).

On a theme that is not so much hackneyed as perennial, Artist-Author Lindsay has tacked a tale that should tickle many readers. His profuse and enthusiastically unconventional drawings of wilder & wilder life on his desert island share the satirical realism of his sharply moraled tale. What would really happen to three men and a girl cast up together in an Eden enforced? There have been plenty of guesses; Author Lindsay's is as good as any, more entertaining than most.

One was a disillusioned journalist, one a prudish young parson, one a middle-aged Irish stoker of herculean build. Sadie Patch, the girl, was a fine physical and mental specimen of femininity. At first everything went according to desert-island Hoyle. Civilized decencies, if not amenities, were observed with conscious strictness. As clothes wore out and beards and familiarity grew, the atmosphere changed. Sadie, of course, became the bone of continuous contention. Unalarmed in her woman's wisdom, she knew she had to keep the peace somehow. How she did it none of them knew till the rescue ship came along, took them safe to Australia, where they were all glad to say goodby.

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