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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6281, 12 September 1898, Page 2

NEW ROMANCE OF THE SEA. (The full title of this interesting story is published in the Problem Competition. See illustrated pages of the " Canterbury Times.") A STORY OP HUMAN LOVE ANIX , THE PERILS OF THE DEEP, By the PRINCE OF MARITIME NOVELISTS. rPHE Proprietors of the " Canterbury Times " •.•*■ have secured for Publication *in that Paper a NEW WORK Of JJove ; Peril and Adventure by W. CLARK RUSSELL, ''^T\ The Wctl&famous Author of " The Wreck of the Grosveflftf/' "The Golden Hope," "The Death Ship," "the Good Ship Mohock," " The Tale of the Ten," " My Danish Sweet* heart," and many other Stories of the Sea. THE OPENING CHAPTERS WILL APPEAR on SEPTEMBER 28. Probably no kind of novel appeals to every class of reader in all parts of the British Empire in the same way and with the same force as does the novel of the Bea. With every generation the commerce of the world is more and more conveyed along the highways of the ocean. Life on the sea — its perilß, its adventures, its triumphs, and the awful and eternal mystery of the ocean with itß ever-changing moods — this in its grand comprehensiveness is the theme which has always a magnetic attraction for every British heart ; and men and women of all ages never tire of stories dealing with the toilers of the deep. Among maritime writers W. Clark Russell comes an easy first. It is universally admitted that he is the greatest sea-novelist the world has yet known. As sketched in his stories a ship becomes a living thing, and the reader who haß at any time sailed on the sea can again feel the breath of the wind and smell the ocean brine. His marvellous insight into the Bailor's mind and heart, and his Bympathetio interpretation of his various moods, coihpelb admiration; whilst his powerful descriptions of the changing sea stamp him as a child of the ocean. He gained his knowledge when a sailor, and so great is his skill in turning to practical account his experiences aboard ship that if one need a bracing change and cannot take a sea voyage he may be recommended to peruse one of Mr Clark Russell's exciting and finished works. In his latest story we have evidence of the characteristics which have won for the author world-wide renown — vivid, realistic descriptions of ocean life; pleasant, attractive characters; and a charming style of narrative. The love element is prominent throughout, and the story ends happily. THE FIRST INSTALMENT WILL APPEAR on SEPTEMBER 28.