Books: Tropical Romp

OCTOBER ISLAND (246 pp.)—William March—Little, Brown ($3).

At 42, Irma Barnfield has been a missionary's wife too long not to recognize their new South Pacific station, October Island, as a "comedown." But she knows better than to complain. To her husband Sam, so dedicated that he has never consummated his marriage, it is simply another "field that awaits the plow of the Lord."

Around Irma and Sam—and an assortment of turn-of-the-century islanders—Novelist William March fashions a choice tropical romp in the serio-comic vein of Satirists Aubrey Menen and Edgar Mittelholzer.

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