Foreword:
The Virgin Islands, illustrated in this picture book, comprising St. Thomas, with its picturesque harbor, its mountain drives with myriad of beautiful views, its unexcelled yachting and fishing facilities around the fifty or more smaller islands, inlets and cays, its beautiful Magens Bay, with a mile of white sand bathing beach;St. Croix with its old sugar mills, its long fields of sugar cane its rolling terrain, its ancient castles and estates, its 84 miles of good roads; St. John with its numerous natural white sand beaches, its beautiful Caneel Bay plantation resort, its trails of wooded quiet and restfulness; and the entire Virgin Islands with their semi-tropical climate ranging between 70 and 90 degrees all year around, present a beauty, charm and enchantment which visitors find most alluring.
THE CENTENNIAL REBIRTH OF J. ANTONIO JARVIS:
Jarvis, a giant in Virgin Islands literature, was born Nov. 22, 1902, according to his son and some published sources, although other documentation, including the Library of Congress, has the year as 1901. He moved in many circles overlapping education and literature: journalism, poetry, drama, history, the visual arts, music, philosophy. And his thinking and writing were immersed in civic, political and social opinions.
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