"THE GARDEN OF GOD."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18374, 14 April 1923, Page 11

"THE GARDEN OF GOD."

ROMANCE OF THE PACIFIC. From skyline to skyline, the blue Pacific desolate beneath the sun, and in the midst of that picture a dinghy containing the forms of a youth and a maid, both dead, the arms of tho girl still holding a living child! Here is the foundation for one of those absorbing romances of the Islands that H. de Vere Stacpoole writes, and he has written a brilliant new serial story, " The Garden of God," the opening chapters of which appear in the Herald supplement this,- morning. The long surge breaking on the coral reef, the busy life beneath the waters of -the great lagoon, the soft tracery of tropic foliage against azure skies, form a aeries of vivid mind pictures, as one follows the author through the chapters of this splendid ro mance, which commences with the finding of the dinghy by the s.s. Raratonga. With graphic pen he portrays many delightful scenes that form so fit a setting for the long story that develops in the beautiful island called " The Garden of God."

Since Stacpoole charmed the Englishspeaking world with that classic of Island romances, " The Blue Lagoon," his stories of the Pacific have always been eagerly looked for, and our readers will find his latest story has a never-failing attraction from start to conclusion. In view of the interest that is sure to be aroused in this new serial, it has been decided to publish daily instalments, and our readers are advised to peruse the opening chapters today in Order to follow the thread of the story as it appears from day to day.