Publications I IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT* | TYPEE. BY HERMAN MELVILLE. The Weelly Press is now publishing the first chapters of Herman fascinating narrative of his four mouthsresidence in the T.vpee Valley of the Marquesas Islands. Ills adventures and I observations are of surpassing Interest, 1 and it is to be noted that his eg. V perience, owing to the peculiar clr« 1 cumstanccs, wan absolutely unique, 1 Thus hlt« description of the Marquesas I Utopia possesses an exceptional value foe § that very large and rapidly increasing § class which occupies itaelf with posftlblt 1 variations on the social scheme of Western I civilisation. Typee society was like no I other society. In that haopy valley tht I curse of labour was removed, marriage § was an undoubted success, and everybody 1 was permanently cheerful. The contrast § to the results arrived nt by this present I generation of the English-speaking people I must strike the reader at once, and tr< f shall say no more in commendation of tht § book's freshness and novelty, merely draw. | ing attention to the following critlcUrus I from well-known authorities. I WHAT-THE CRITICS THINK OP 1 TYPEE. I Those who have never read auy e\ 1 Herman Melville's works have a treat ia S store for them. Mr W. Clark Russsll ff wrote iv 1880 lo Mr Melville :-•• It is hard §1 to meet a man whose opinion as a reader 1/ Is worth having who does not speak of §' your works in *uch terms an he might I hesitate to employ with all his patriotism !< toward many renowned English writers."' { j The author':- style is graceful and alluring, j: so that wo pass from one scene of Pacific \ enchantment to another quite oblivious of the vast nmouut of descriptive detail '' which la poured out upon us. U1» ih e varying fortuno of the hero which •«• ] grouses our nttenlion; we follow hfa adventures with breathless inter est. . , , Some parts of Melville's writing'- please us exceedingly. We refer to the short passages which reflect with considerable severity on the methods pursued by missionaries in the South Sjhs. We are glad to learn that his writings have been found of great value to out-going missionaries on account of the «.XHCt information coa> tamed in them on these points, aud will} respect to the islands as well.-—PuMisJUr'a Circular, February 11th, 1803. The whole narrative Is most interesting, most affecting, and , most romantic— Gentleman's Magazine. 'i ■ ■■ We have not mot with so bewitching a work as this narrative of Herman Mtl« vllle.— John Bull. A very curious, book,-—Eatominer. A great curiosity.— Spectator. That Mr Melville will favour us who his further adventures we have no doubt whatever. We *stiull Mpect them with impatience, and recYive them with plea* sure. He is a'companion after our own hearts. His voice i* pleasant; aud if we could see his face we are sure we should find it a cheerful one.— Loiidon Time*. The entertaining society of Marquosan Melville.— Blackwood. • The charming works of Mr Melville.— London Atlas. j Few write so powerfully as Mr Melville, or in better English.— Westminster Review, Invariably graphic, fresh, and entertain* tainlng.— Athenaeum. Herman Melville irresistibly sta*rtles and enchains the interest of the reader, He possesses amazing powers of expression ;he Is never stupid, never dull. A man of innate genius.— Dublin VnivirsUf Magazine.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 8485, 17 May 1893, Page 6
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