"Yankee" Tabu

WHEN the English edition of Dr. S. M.

Lambert’s best-seller, “A Yankee Doctor in Paradise,” appeared in London, the doctor was “tickled” to find that the title had been decontaminated: it now reads, “A Doctor in Paradise”!

“I suppose,” says the doctor, in a note to the “PIM,” “they thought ‘Yankee’ would offend good British ears.” Dr.

Lambert has got it wrong. We British people have had it hammered into us for years that “Yankee” is a word offen sive to many Americans, and so most of us refrain from its use. That almost certainly explains London’s emasculation of the original title.

An Australian edition of this delightful book —the story of how Dr. Lambert fought and finally conquered the hook worm disease in the South Seas —is promised at an early date.