Books: Satyr Hunts

THE ISLAND OF CAPTAIN SPARROW—S. Fowler Wright—Cosmopolitan ($2.00). Young Foyle is cast upon an imaginary mid-Pacific island—not to found the new social order, but to encounter thrilling adventures among relics of four races: satyrs who mate with human beings, ruka-birds of uncanny intelligence, high-minded followers of the Priest of Gir, and the low-born descendants of a pirate crew. Satyr hunts, cannibalistic orgies, hair-raising escapes are in order. But Author Wright will rather be remembered for the swift ingenuity of his unique Deluge.

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