Word: casuarina
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CASUARINA TREE-W. Somerset Maugham-Doran ($2). The title, of course, means nothing, although Author Maugham explains in a two-page preface that it might mean something. If one takes a piece of the Casuarina tree in a boat with him, contrary winds and storms will arise to jest with his life; but if one stands in its shadow by the light of the full moon, he will hear the secrets of the future. All of which ties a string around six short stories, wherein English folk drink gin pahits and have emotional disturbances in Borneo and the Malay Peninsula...