Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 15th March 1883, Edition 1 of 1, Page 261

SEA STORIES BY W . CLARK RUSSELL- *™^** . NOW READY . . THE LADY MAUD : A NARRATIVE OF THE LOSS OF A SCHOONER YACHT . Small post Svo . cloth extra , 6 s . " The In point Lady Mapd of literary " is better merit , th we an are anything inclined he to has think jet that pro- powers * An exceedingly of description exciting of sea narrative and sky . -scape « .. seem . Mr . as Ba endless * geH * 3 dnced . . • • The story is verv skilfully worked up , and it as his subject . They are extraordinarily . vivid . '—Daily Neir * . is itself described with real power . ' -Sot * man . dent t No 8 more noyel calculated of tQe gen to thrill ational the ^^ reader than COIltatn this tale iDci of . 0 - graphic W * . That Clark power richly "Russell , each gifted , , , whose being - chronicler ,. excellent knowledge . of the of , its imagination great kind waters , unite , , in Mr and „ a . to the wfth be eea the possible , fall sea of and adventures those As who a that writer li ve all on on seamen it all he subjects is will without acknowledg connected a rival e . I B B marine style which has no modern parallel . Mr . Russell His present work is superior to any , of bis previous pro- I has to had the , strengthened ta honours previous of books his Marryat hold , shown on and the himsel inheritance Dana f ; the and true by he every succes certainly line sor ¦ duct Morning * _ ions ,. ' , Post and ' , will be . « ., read __ _ with . , _ engrossing . " „ .. _ interest . _ . '— I I i in this his latest tale of the sea . * —/> ¦— f « ** ^— » W «—¦~ ^ mmm p * . tive x . Tbe of her adventures loss on of one The of the Lady Bahama Maud Oay with « , are tbe all narra that - of one who , beyond ail writers , understands sailors and the P ° *» —Acaaemy . eea Lady .. Maud ... In ' * order should to receive have preceded its full share instead of justice of followed , " The sea This by which is another Mr . Clark of those Russell bewitching pets as narratives all longing of to the be whole Mr . Bussell less completely ' s other novels effective . But , it though is in , many certainly impo on rtant the to afloat our readers We as the heart most ily welcome recommend relief ' The from Lady the conven Maud " - respects of higher artistic quality . '—Graphic . tional patter of the fashionable novel . *—Court Journal . A SAILOR'S SWEETHEART . Fowrth Edition , small post Svo . cloth extra , 6 s . most ' One anxious cannot to rea skip d the in order story to fas find t enough out what ; and is to even happen when , day man reality of all others to the who pures knew t fictions how of to Ms ffive brain an atr —and of every then - technical one feels obliged details , which to read are straight necesRarily on , even more in or less spite nnintel of the - he let him will rea soon d one perceive of Mr . the Russell difference ' s excellent between sea novels the , best and - ligible a noTel to in a the landsman ordinary . And sense yet of the the term book . cannot It is not be a called story feigned sometimes truth startling that was , truth ever written of a story , and told tbe simple by a man , though who with the love a plot tale turning has no intricacies upon love , . but There goes is right no plot on , in and it , onl and y describes has seen . or We done have or not suffered space to nearly quote everything the description that he of helps to increase the interest of the adventure * and to the ** Waldershare ' s ' running down the Thames from ornament Athenaeum the . book by its good taste and simple feeling . '— near London Cape to Horn Graveseiid . But , or the of her man encounter who wrote with thos the e descrip iceberg - fiction There , from are few the thin days gs finer of Defoe in the wliole downward range s , of than English the *™ neart ± . ^ — aianaara r ^ ZlF . * ** fa MS ^ WeU " trUth * account in the work before us of how the sailing ship < « a Sailor's Sweetheart" is most emphatically an intcrral Wsadershire picture , but " is doubled a tremendous Cape Horn reality —it . is Truth not iifce and a power know- - co esting urse of book the . story We , will because not give the main a single charm hint of abont the book the cal sauor ledp effect are as he , written makes is , and in us , without every see and line the realise and least word tbe stra . fascination 'ning Ho » after ive 3 of us poeti tbe the - Hes next are kept in . We the at csin manner a high only strain where promise . by One those the never attention who knows read and the what expectation novel is coming a few eea out for out those of familiar who know intimacy it , not with as its mere mos poets t terrible or painters as well , conclusion eensations , such we will as th add ey cannot that along have with often all had this fcefore artistic . In as its commonest phases . *— Graphic . accomplishment , * A Sailor ' s Sweetheart " ia a healthy , ' I ^ t any one read the moat life-liko pages of Defoe—the honest , innocent book . '— Vavity Fair . MY WATCH BELOW ; OR , YARNS SPUN WHILE OFF DUTY . By 'A SEAFARER . ' Reprinted from the London Daiiy Telegraph . 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