Books: 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...

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