Another Book

From J. Nomon Hall

From a Special Correspondent MUCH has been written about where the Polynesian peoples originally came from and how they migrated about the Pacific. Yet one more book on that subject is due before too much longer. The author, this time, will be the capable and well-known James Norman Hall, of Tahiti, who is known best for the famous stories about the Bounty mutineers which he wrote in collaboration with the late Charles Nordhoff.

Hall is at present at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Nancy Rutgers, in Hono lulu, where he has access to the research files of the Bishop Museum and the Honolulu Public Library, both well stocked on Polynesian lore. It is expected that the book will be published by Little, Brown and Company, who have pub lished many of Hall’s books.

While in Hawaii. Hall, now 63, is doing some work on his autobiography, which the same firm will publish.

Mrs. Hall, who stayed behind at their Tahiti home when her husband left for Honolulu last October, recently went from Tahiti to Suva on the A 1 Sudan and then flew on to meet her husband and daughter in Alohaland,