What I liked about the book: The writing was droll, the characters were fantastically well-drawn and the incidents were funny.

What I didn’t like about the book: Nothing really. The chapters I mentioned above were the best. Others, on the town elections and mine speculation, were slightly less interesting.

The most interesting quote: The Indian’s Island itself is all covered with trees and tangled vines, and the water about it is so still that it’s all reflected double and looks the same either way up. … The scene is all so quiet and still and unbroken, that Miss Cleghorn, — the sallow girl in the telephone exchange, that I spoke of — said she’d like to be buried there. But all the people were so busy getting their baskets and gathering up their things that no one had time to attend to it.

Recommendation: It’s a quick and pleasant read, not one to be remembered for long but one to be thoroughly enjoyed for the duration.