The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-11-11
POETRY AND FICTION.


POETRY AND FICTION.
Another OK Sailor Frank L. Bullen's
particularly tarry sea stories rs just
published by ID. Appleton 4 Co, en-
ti,lod "The Log of a Sea Waif' IL rs
real boys sea story and story OF a
real boys real sea experiences. Ii -
rcdolent OF the f0recastle, the fragrant
stencil that tempts every healthy boy
brought up on the seacoast 20 embark
ON searfaring lie. IL - bunen own
story as a sailor IN MS teens ana IL
smacks ol tluth while ncking nothing
in the picturesoueness mat attaches 10
even the Ilrdships OF "A sailors NE
as 90 no other 10 is likely tb make
lae oder rcdder feel like cOngratulat-
inc himself on the whole that he was
saved in youth from running away 10
sea and Vet TO feel Ia trifle regretful
that he did not after all. To the
healthy boy who reads Il it may act
as a - arrent 90 putting i'm operation
his seafaring ambitions without how
ever rObbng those ambitions OF much
of their charm. Altogether it Is brave
and breezy narrative, splendidiy ana
convncingly written and shows a re-
markahle holding uD L. the standard
The author set for himself In the
"Cruisc of the Cachalot.' The rugged
romance OF facts is in every page
There are number Of spirited illustra-
tons For sale by Gregory. Price
Sl.j0D
Another sea story Of charm to the
lovers of sea romances and of unique
character is published in the Appleton
Town and Country Library. No. pa. IL
is by that well known and apparently
neXhQustlble producer of sea tales'
Clark Russell. and is called by the en-,
gag.ng tltlt. ~ Voyage st Anchor
Tha people in this new and exceedingly
clever warn take n vacation ON an ola
hulk Off the Kentish coast and th~
party has rather more interesting eN-
poricuces than one would took for from
such quiet cruise. There is deScrip-
tion Of the burning of a ship M night.
which will take its place among the
classics OF descriptive bits and the
reader is kept on edge with curiosity as
Go what viii turn uD next 20 Divert The
quiet Voyagers before their highly en-
tertainlng holiday Is brought 20 an end.
The tale. like Stockton's famous "Rud-
der Grange Is calculated 10 tempt the
reader 10 take vacation ON some Oh
hulk of shore at the very earliest op-
p1rtunity. (For sale by Gregory cloth
ST. Paper 30 centsD
Lovers Of weird and thrilling ro-
mancc will be delighted with a story
called "a queen Of Atlantis which
4 Frank Aubrey has just provided and
the Lipnnco.ts have published with
pictures by II. Murray Smith, all Of
character 10 make the hair rise Hero
and h ruine with some other persons
aboard brig are shared i'm the Sargas-
50 sea, that dreadful stretch Of choked
water that lies between tn Caribbean.
and the CUR of Mexico. the gSveyard
OF ships from time immem0rial from
which there is nOescape and only In
gering starvation awaits the imprison-
ed. BY an unknown channel the brig
drifts until it brings up at the lost ISL
and OF Atlantis strangely pcopled and
where yet remain from mythoiogical
age monstrous vampires and cutie fish
big enough 10 crush a boat.To the blood
--l1l-al+l.4s AZ 49,. ~ laIlt -
citing ries OF complications on the
brig wherein the skipper seeks 60 Kill
the heroine the experiences had by the
Noyagers ON the lost Island contribute
much more to excite the reader and keep
him or her awake nights. Terrific adj
ventures and heroic experiences are
survived by the little party and through
tg all a love story reaches It's happy con-
clusion. (Price $l.50)
Unusual, intense. dramatic ana alb
sorbingly interesting. a book that viii
| insist on being read to the last page at
sitting is a novelette, entitled"A Man:
Tits Mark 81. Is. Lippincott COZ w.
G.. Morrow Is the author Of the ro-
nance. The man after a love tragedy
has. under his physicians advice. made
a hermit OF himself in the mountains
of California. - his cabin he brings
a young woman OF fashion whom he
has rescued from the tirst storm OF the
winter She is badly hurt and he nurses
her To recovery. They are storm bound
tog ther i'm the hut through the long
winter. I'm turn he falls sick from over
work I'm her behalf and starvation since
the winter store Of provisions for one
has been largely surrendered 10 his
charge. 1t appears that the young wom-
an was involved in ths old love tragedy
i'm a way that We must leave the reader
to find out about. But In the hut "A new |
romance develops between the two !
which however. does not end the way |
the reader is most likely to expect. |
(Price $l.25D
A selection of the worldly wise and |
rather affected stories of Paul Bourget |
are published under the title OF Pas |
tells of Men OLittle, Brown & Company. |
They are good example of the kind |
OF story That the Partisan reads i'm his |
daily newspaper instead of an equal |
measure OF news. On the whole they are |
probably blttcr than the average Pari- |
sian newspaper story. but that is their |
type They have 10 do with the more |
"a 60 ftt1 a.iI nf In,