By Reef and Palm

By Reef and Palm (1916)
by Louis Becke

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[T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1916. First published 1894.] Tales of the South Sea Islands. These (his first tales) were first published in (and shaped by the editor of) the Sidney Bulletin. The Earl of Pembroke, struck with some of these stories in the Bulletin, urged Becke to send a collection to London. The result was “By Reef and Palm.”

“The loves of white men and brown women, often cynical and brutal, sometimes exquisitely tender and pathetic, necessarily fill a large space in any true picture of the South Sea Islands, and Mr. Becke, no doubt of set artistic purpose, has confined himself in the collection of tales now offered almost entirely to this facet of the life.” (From the introduction by the Earl of Pembroke.)

2903576By Reef and Palm1916Louis Becke

By Reef &
Palm
by
Louis Becke

London
T. Fisher Unwin L^td
Adelphi Terrace

First Edition 1894
Second Impression 1894
Third Impression 1895
Fourth Impression 1895
Fifth Impression 1898
Sixth Impression 1913
Seventh Impression 1916

By Reef and Palm

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