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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6285, 16 September 1898, Page 2

i y . . . " ' ' " NEW ROMANCE OF THE SEA. (The full title of this interesting story _■ published in the Problem Competition. Se* illustrated pages of the " Canterbury Timet,") [ A STORY OF HUMAN LOVE AND THE PERILS OP THE DEEP, By the i PRINCE OP MARITIME NOVELISTS. rpHE Proprietors of the " Canterbury Time. " have secured for Publication in that Paper a NEW WORK Of Love, Peril and Adventure by W. CLARK RUSSELL, The World-famous Author of " The Wreck of the Grosvenor," "The Golden Hope," "Tho 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 and more conveyed along the highways of the ocean. Life on the sea— its perils, its adventures, its tnumphß, and the awful and eternal mystery of the ocean with its ever-changing moods— this in its grand comprehensiveness is the theme which has alwayß 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 hiß stories a ship becomes a living thing, and the reader who has at any time sailed on the sea oan again feel the breath of the wind and smell the ocean brine. Hiß marvellous insight into the sailor's mind and heart, and his sympathetic! interpretation of his various moods, compels 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 bA great ie hiß 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 tho story ends happily. THE FIRST INSTALMENT WILL APPEAR on SEPTEMBER 28.