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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6282, 13 September 1898, Page 2

NEW ROMANCE OF THE SEA. (The fnll title of this interesting story It published in the Problem Competition. See illus trated pages of the " Canterbury Timet."]) A STORY OF HUMAN LOVE AND THE PERILS OF THE DEEP, By the PRINCE OF MARITIME NOVELISTS. THE Proprietors of the " Canterbury Times " hare secured for Publication in that Paper a NEW WORK OS Love, Peril and Adventure hy W. CLARK RUSSELL, The World-famous Author ot " The Wreck of the G-Osvenor," "The Golden Hope," "The Death Ship;' "The Good Ship Mohock," " The Tale of the Ten," " My Danish Sweetheart," 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 sea. With every generation the commerce of the world is more an _ ' more conveyed along the Highways of the ocean. Life on the Bea — its perils, its adventures, its triumphs, and the awful and eternal mystery of the ocean with ita ever -changing moods — this in its grand comprehensivenessis 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 hying thing, and the reader who has at any time 1 sailed on the sea can again feel the breathof the wind and smell the ocean brine. His marvellous insight into the .sailor's mind and heart, and his sympathetic interpretation of his various moods, compel*, admiration; whilst his powerful descriptions of the changing sea ..stamp him as a child of the ocean. He gained hia 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 Bea 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 bf ' narrative. THe love element is prominentthroughout, and the story ends happily. THE EIRST INSTALMENT WILL APPEAR 'on . " SEPTEMBER 28;