AN ECCENTRIC SALT
FAMILY TROUBLE, by William McFee; Faber and Faber. English price, 10/6. HE creator of Mr, Spenlove and his shipmates has written another urbane tale, this time about Captain Jack Bannister, who rescues a pretty foreign widow from a sinking ship and suffers for it thereafter in various parts of the globe. This is a familiar world through which Mr. Spenlove conducts the reader, with’ many an anecdote and philosophic aside; it is the solid maritime world of a modern, minor Conrad. The author has been writing books like this for over 40 years, and this one has some of the rambling, inconsequent quality of an old man’s reminiscence. Yet his hero is a fantastically eccentric young salt, and the story of his career of knight-errantry is told with discernment and a quiet,
subtle humour.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 552, 20 January 1950, Page 15
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138AN ECCENTRIC SALT New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 552, 20 January 1950, Page 15
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