White Man Returns
by. Atlantic-Little, Brown, $4.00.
In her latest and immensely readable book Agnes Newton Keith continues the family chronicle which, in Land Below the Wind and Three Came Home, has made the Keith household intimately known and infinitely respected by thousands of readers.White Man Returns is an account of the Keiths’ return to North Borneo to the post which they occupied before their four years as captives of the Japanese, and of their efforts to help in reconstructing that shattered land.
What gives to Mrs, Keith’s narrative its high caliber and its depth of interest is her candor and warmth, her unforced humor and her impressive intelligence. One gains from her book a stimulating insight. into a family that rises to meet its minor and major crises with spirit and love; an unclouded view of the aftermath of war, sociologically and economically, in an Asian world; and a fine, insistent affirmation of the dignity and value of individual human life — no matter where the life, or whose.