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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6290, 22 September 1898, Page 2

SATURDAY* STAR. PERMANENTLY J7NLABGED. 64 COLUMNS. SPECIAL FEATURES: TALKS AND SKETCHES— In the Grip of Hate Closing Scenes of the War The Golden Trap An. interesting Character Stories of Queensland Blacks" Strange Uses of the Rontgen Rays JSto., . Eic LADIES' PAGE— , : Husbands who ruin their Wives Gambling A Lady's Experiences in West Africa At Buckingham Palace Household Hints Woman's World . . , Etc., Etc. READING FOR EVERYBODY— Fun and Fancy Notes and Notions Brief Mention. Band Gossip ' „ Eto., Eto. . LATEST TELEGRAPHIC AND GENERAL NEWS. EIGHT PAGES. EIGHT PAGES. SIXTY-FOUR COLUMNS. . ONE PENNY.

NEW ROMANCE OF THE SEA. A STORY OF HUMAN LOVE AND THE PERILS OF THE DEEP, By the PRINCE OF MARITIME NOVELISTS. THE Proprietors of the " Canterbury Times " have secured for Publication in tlurt Paper a NEW WORK Of Love, Peril and Adventure by W. CLARK RtJSSELL, 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'S ROMANCE,' And 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 Bame 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 I 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 tire of stories dealing with the toilers of the deep. • Among maritime writers W. Glark Russell comes an easy first. It is universally admitted that he is the greatest sea-novelist the world has yet known. As sketched in hia stories a ship becomes a living thing,, and the reader who has 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 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 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 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.