The Island Mystery

out the events which gave the island a certain importance in the history of the war. A couple of months ago I asked a well-known press-cutting agency to supply me with a

has a curious story to tell about a certain island i

ciency of our press censorship that this should be the only reference to the island in any newspaper in the course of three years. We have blundered a good

bles and elsewhere. Unfortunately gossip of this kind is most unreliable. The tendency is to exaggerate the picturesque parts of the story and to misinterpret motives. It is slanderous, for instance, to suggest that Sir Bartholomew w

itten by Professor Homer Geldes, of Pearmount University, Pa., U.S.A. The book was published ten yea

rs to be a kind of roof supported by the walls of caverns. It is possible that the professor has exaggerated this peculiarity. He was naturally anxious to make good his derivation of the name. But there are certainly many caves under the fields and viney

av, or an Italian. His skull is dolichocephalic. His facial angle-but it is better for any one interested in these points to read Professor Geldes' book fo

ders, like their race, is mixed. It seems to consist of some vague pagan beliefs and the observance of a few Christian ceremonies. The people are not in any way bigoted. Their priesthood-if it c

y on a question of this kind. He is an Irishman, Member of Parliament for Upper Offaly, and therefore naturally at home on an island with no government. There are people who prefer to live under

cal) south-east of the nearest point of the Megalian coast, and thus occupies a position of supreme strategic importance. Sir

n Sea holds the Near East in its grasp. The Island of Salissa is the keystone of the Cyrenian Sea. The German

o me yesterday evening after dinner, when I told him that I had undertaken to write the story of recent events in the island. The pronouncement, c

dge of Salissa and is certainly entitled to such credit as may be won by writing a history of the recent troubles. But Donovan has devoted his later years to the cult of indolence, and he suffers from disordered action of the heart. Miss Daisy Donovan-I prefer to use her original name-might have given us a picturesque account of the events in which she played the leading part. But she is no

ry from the lips of those chiefly concerned. They have allowed me to question