Evening star., 1934-07-15
PUBLIC LIBRARY
TALES OF THE SEA.

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the place of a good sea story on
a hot day. when illusions OF
Il coolness are to be treasured
especially when they can con-
| jure up imaginary breezes and the
salt spray Of the ocean. The Public
Library lists a group of recent books
of sea adventure and appends group
| Of older favoriteS among several gen.
erations Of readers.
High Adventure.
Log Of mejuicer, by J. P. Barker.
1894. Gi2B243
I'VE defy most Of those who have
themselves been to sea. Cape Horners
as we'll as the rest, to match. yes,
even to approach, the chapters which
form a full second half to this Lime
ULCERS log, for in these chapters
the record of single paSsage-there
is classic of the sea which has few
parallels. Percy Hutchison.
Bowsprit Ashore, by A. H Bone. 1882.
GI2B64
The reader may start here or there
in the volume, go from the last page
to the first If he chooses. 'Bowsprit
Ashore is voyage of memory, touch
ing at the ports of memory or the
ports of the world. Percy Hutchison.
Cruise of the Zaca, by Templeton
Crocker. 1888. Gl3C874.
Around the world from San Fran
cisco in an ll8-foot yacht in an &C
count told with a certain dry, tart
humor that is decidedly engaging . 9.
Read it, if you yourself can't manage
that world tour this year" And that
means it is for the majority.
The Half Deck, by G. H. Grant 1888.
G12.G76.
"The first half of the book, espe-
cially, is vivid and genuine. The
eternal verities of the sea, as revealed
to the eyes and heart of a boy of
IA, are delightfully."- set forth-the
other apprentices. the officers, and
the little isolated world which a ship
is."-Arthur Warner.
Little Ships, by J. S. Hughes. 1888.
G12.H874.
Random recollections of the au-
thor's adventures at his favorite sport,
seafaring in small craft, in many wa
| ters ranging from the Solent and the
English Channel to the Pacific Ocean
He closes the book with description
| of the yacht he would like to build
and provides a plan for it."
A Million Miles in Sail, by J. H. Nc
Culloch. 1888. E.D649m.
Mr.. McCulloch has done a good
job with Capt. Dixon's "reminiscences
No fancy writing, a minimum OF
dramatization-the whole record writ
ten in the first person is terse and to
the point, as if it had been set down
! by the old seadog himself. Arthur
Ruhl.
Shark! Shark! by w. E. Young
1888. PBY86.
There are many books of adven-
| ture, exploration and travel. II not
the most important, Shark! Shark
is surely a most unusual one. Not
only has Capt. Young taken us on
several of the Seven Seas, but under
most of them. We like this narrative
for the piquancy it injects among the
everyday dishes OF literary fare. -
/, Percy Hutchison.
Rattling Good Stories.
Long Pennant, by Oliver La Fargo.
A sea story of the War of 1912
A-I. -
above all 1t is a surprisingly clever
study of the character of the men oi
that early day who went down to the
sea in ships
| field.
This story of sailing ship race
from the Pagoda Anchorage to the
Thames, in the early SOS of the last
century in the closing years of the
romantic era of the clippers, huns
with the salt spume of the sea, cracks
| with the Straining of spars and gears
the tight drumming of canvas, and is
alive with the salty talk of ways OF
clipper ship sailor men. - Felix
Rosenberg.
Men Against the Sea. by c. B. Nord-
hoff and J. N. Hall.
Men Against the Sea is a great
book fit to take a permanent place ir
the literature of narrative adven-
ture Lincoln Colcord.
Mutiny on the Bounty, by c. B. Nord-
hoff and J. N. Hall.
"A novel retelling the story of the
mutiny on board the English veSSe
Bounty on its return voyage from the
South Seas in 1889" What happened
to the survivors after the shipwrecl
following the mutiny is told in "Mer
Against the Sea"
Mother Sea, by Felix Rosenberg.
The love story is not pronounced
enough to obscure the seamanship
which is of the first quality; indeed il
seems somewhat superf1uous. The au'
thor can load and sail his ships bet
ter than he can entwine garlands."
Sea Stories Father Enjoyed.
The Log of Bob Bartlett. by R. A
Bartlett. 1928 E.B2838.
Typhoon, by Joseph Conrad.
Two Years Before the Mast, by r. H
Dana. 1911. Gl5Dl2.
The Mutineers, by C. B. Hawes.
Blue Water. by A. S. Hildehrand
1928. G27H543.
Captains Courageous, by Rudyarr
Kipling.
The Cruise of the Shark. by Jacl
London. 1918. Gl6LS44.
Masterman Ready, by Frederick Mar
ryat.
Sailing Alone Around the World, b,
Joshua Slocum. 1905. Gl3Sl53S.
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