The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-23
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with Christ at Sea; Personal Rec.
 ord of Religious Experiences on Board
 Ship for Fifteen Years" By Frank T.
 Bullen. 12mo, pp. V, 325. Frederick A.
 Stokes company. Price $1.50; for sale
 by the E. P. Judd company. This is one
 of the most realistic of the stories of
 the sea. The author knows whereof he
 speaks, knows the sea in all its chang
 ing moods, as he was himself for years
 of them that go down to the sea in
 ships. He speaks, moreover, not only
 of thorough personal knowledge of the
 ocean--a Knowledge acquired on many
 voyages in many climes- but is a skill
 ed interpreter of the seas moods and
 writes vividly and with the skill of
 master. In this work he gives a pie
 turesque narration of adventures at sea
 and the facts of daily life on shipboard as we'll. The lesson that 1t teaches is
 the old one that character can triumph
 over surroundings The New York
 Tribune critic says of the book and it's
 author: Tt has been plain to readers
 of his capital books, however, that he i has studied his Bible, and that his life
 at sea has been full of grave thought.
 With Christ at Sea gives a more inti
 mate picture of what he experienced as
 he grew from boyhood to mans estate. ! His fifteen chapters of reminiscence are ! fifteen sermons. Yet here again we
 must acquit him of preaching. He sim 1 ply puts down what happened to him
 and what he felt, exhibiting in the sim plest lines and colors his own spiritual 1aNe111,rpapt tha traits oOn6 pr bad, which some of his sblpmates dis
 closed in their relation to religious
 ideals. The book is written in the di-
 rect and interesting style which has
 made MT. Bullen's reputation, and it will not only be read with pleasure by
 his admirers ashore, but ought to do good when placed, as it surely will De, in the book box which even the least altruistic of sea captains has under his charge for the edification of his men,"
 Richard Henry Stoddard in the Mail 1 and Express says of the book: That an | author is able to publish two good books | bearing no relation to each other within | the remarkable short period of three | months is evidenced by the appearance of Frank T. Bullen's The Men of the l Merchant Service and With Christ at | Sea- To say that both books are in | their way as interesting and attractive l as any printed this winter is to tell the | plain unvarnished truth. MT Bullen, | whose Cruise of the Cachalot' made his name few years ago, is not like MT. Clark Russell, MT. Morley Roberts or even like Marryat. There is a profound sameness about the writings of these three that is not found in Bullen. MT. RusselPs descriptions of the sea are ever the same in dozen different chap ters. Mr. Roberts fo'c's'le is the same from cover to cover, and Marryats lee | shore booms with the same old roar of the breakers MT. Bullen treats all of these things with a new zest, an infinite variety that is refreshing to readers of nautical novels and marine literature. Not that either The Men of the Mer- chant Service or With Christ at Sea is so steeped in the briny as to be inca pablo of mature interpretation by other than moss grown nautical minds Quite the contrary, for the author has written | both books that even a backswoodsman may be able to read and understand | what the ocean, the ship, her officers | and men are really like. It is just this simplicity of language that Is bound to make these two volumes popular The Men of the Merchant Service tells the layman what the merchant service is like, from the master down to the mis- guided footsteps of the cabin boy, fire man and trimmer. With Christ at Sea- is book that has many dramatic pages a sound piece of literary work"
 "The Conquest of London" By Do- bothea Gerard. Published by F. M Buckles S Co.,, 9-11 East Sixteenth street, New York. Price SIPS; for sale oy the F. P. Judd company. This will De found very entertaining book. It leals with the experiences of four pret- y orphaned girls, who, left with very neagre equipment in money by their deceased artist father and hard pressed o make both ends meet, suddenly find themselves heiresses each to the extent f five thousand dollars, left them by urly old uncle who has unexpectedly departed this life. The girls decide o leave their modest and lonely little ome, which is away back in the coun- ry, and have a season in London soci- ty. They spend money lavishly, get nto fashionable society attract fortune unters, their wealth being greatly verestimated by the gossps. One of he girls suddenly marries an artist. he happy pair meet with dire adversi- y, and the girls suddenly, to their dis lay and horror, find that their bank ccount is exhausted and that only their riginal little property remains. Back , their former home they go only to sist by the practice of the utmost econ- ny. But the story winds up delight lily for all concerned. with a happy in which the eldest of the rls wins the heart of a man of prince
 income. As says the London Liter y World of the book, "It is brightly ritten story, which will be certain to Id favor with the readers"
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