Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 - 1939), Saturday 22 October 1921, page 3


BEATRICE GRIMSHAW.

"Something lost behind the ranges, something waiting for you—Go!" That remark by Kipling sums up the philosophy of Beatrice Grimshaw. Since her girl-

hood days, when she was classical lec-turer at Bedford Women's College, there has always been for her something lost behind the ranges, something waiting for her to study. Impelled by the spirit of adventure she has roved the Pacific from shore to shore, darting in her own cutter from island to island, and finally settling down in somewhat feudal style among the natives of Papua. She knows the Pacific, and Papua, especially, probably better than any other writer, and most of her books are centred around what she knows so thoroughly. Miss Grimshaw's latest book is entitled "My South Sea Sweet-heart" (Hurst and Blackett, Ltd.) It tells the story of Dara Hamilton, a girl to whom civilisation was more a name than a reality. At the age of fourteen years, just before her father's death, she was married to a boy of her own age, Luke Ivory, so as to ensure their future on the island. Then came Captain Harry England, "the wickedest man in the Pacific," who fascinated Dara, and the conflict between Luke and England is a deadly one, the result being romantic and original. The native Queen Lalua, her magic-making handmaiden, and other mysterious personages, all add to the romance of a story that will appeal to people who have grown tired of the un-reality of so many of the modern novels.