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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6289, 21 September 1898, Page 2

NEW ROMANCE OF THE SEA^ A STORY OF HUMAN LOVE AND 1 THE PERILS OP THE DEEP, . By the PRINCE OP MARITIME NOVELISTS. *TIHE Proprietors of the " Canterbury Times "' •*■ have secured for Publication in th»* 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," "The Death Ship," " The Good Ship ' Mohock," " The Tale of the Ten," " My Danish Sweetheart," and many other Stories of the Sea. THE STORY IS ENTITLED "A MIDSHIPMAN'd ROMANCE,' And THE OPENING CHAPTERS WILL APPEAR . | on : ; SEPTEMBER 2& 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 1 , more conveyed along the highways of the. ocean. Life on the sea. — its perils, its adventures, its triumphs, and the awful and eternal mystery of the ocean with its 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 tiro 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 has at any time sailed on the seft can again feel the breath of the wind and smell theocean brine. His 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 so great is his skill m turning to practical account his experiences aboard ship that if one need a bracing change and cannot take a sea voyage ho 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 renpwn— vivid, realistic descriptions of ocean life; pleasant, attractive characters; and a charming style o{" narrative. The love element is prominent throughout, and the story ends happily. THE FITSST INSTALMENT WILL APPEAR on SEPTEMBER 28.