The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1891-08-20
W. CLARK Russell.
HOW HE BECAME AN AUTHOR. ONLY TIE
SAILOR, lie SAYS, CAN WRITE SEA TALES AS
lHEl SHOULD BE WRITTEN.
IErnn1 tho NpM Nnrk IInrnlL

From the New ork Herald
A most eloquent and stirring euIogy pro-
nounced upon MIR. Clark Russell, who is him
self an American born writer, and his splendid
stories of the sea, is that one penned by Her.
in his book. of which only twenty five copies
were published John Mari and Other Sailors. :
wherein he thus speaks of MI. Russell, to
whom he dedcate> the book The Wreck Of
the GroSvenor" entities the author to the naval
crown in current literature. Upon the "Gros-
venor'>" first appearance in these waters. was
gong TO say, all competent judges exclaimed,
each after his own fashion, something to this
effect The very spit of the brine in our
faces WHAT writer 50 thoroughly as this one
knows the sea and the blue waters Of il. the
sailor and the heart of him, the ship too, and
the sailing and handling of a ship?
And this is true Judgment
BY many ''landubbers" it is supposed that
ne never was at sea that like most writers of
sea stories he got his ideas from books. Sail
or> know better. He is termed the modern
Marryat He is no more like Marrvat than he
is like Chaucer. He is the only writer who
has ever interpreted the English merchant ser :
vice. In this he stands alone and in this he
differs from all his predecessors. His pages
are fun Of his own personal experiences. This
| found out for myself in Very interesting
conversation which recently had with him at
his home in Deal.
Deal, Briny, quaint, old fashioned, historic
Deal. Deal, with its grumhling cnntankerous,
i"aing, qua chewing. yarn spinning, but alto.
gether delightful fishermen and long
its >hngle, its gaIley- and luggerS and rows of
rap>tan> and Scrpentine coils Of chains. Deal.
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4" ;. "l.''.' II t" ''''"o" Ho'I ~ w "iti
nnu @ "'Hlant paS,. ',eh, apoh whose oea.h
G ,.n ''a,9' WY ,rs .n'n.s ,p'ia>h G'I'eonN " 'ne
he'' az il"'hp, WHERE nlath eNeu susan
Missy" hei ipNe Soo'''N ana "neie iotu nelson
"" "'a'" !ue HieuuSa awaited N"Poeoh ;
'"'0''e"e" '"N"9''n'
SYMPATHETIC NtEltOt NDINGS.
II was in such thoronoh hIv svmnat betir s,r
rouudinos that found thr ,,re,t Enulish nav.
rlist of fine son as hp ,,aln from his ,yiIa ,i,,
iu, windows unon thn pIar rhnnuiu, mi ,,t
ever eternal .ra | sat dnvu hr.i1lp him No
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I'M he i. anj lnnkp1 Im,yn i,,on thn w,ta.u
that Iapued GENTLY mon thr bp,rh ,jn,nst III.
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frnm thn s,ttimlr .m, nI HI 'iin.ti-I t,
f,r nt yrIlow s7ndS me- a,Hf,l t,nn,vin. III
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NJ 't>i pF"ke lht silence come, YOU an
r'eht mariner sPln me yarn. Tel me how
3"I' "Ilh "lnoSl we "tlrihes> ol German
l"iA-i"fe >torY OF me awful heart stopping
power 81 'oIefldge or an Edgar Allan Poe,
"IIte lhcHe Wohdef1ul sea stories OF yours
WI zen you IN one word what Is the Sc
g!Gt ~ any power may possess. write
pHiN lIldl Wultu KNOW. | speak out OF nv