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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6305, 27 September 1898, Page 2

■NEW ROMANCE OF THE SKA. A STORY OF HUMAN LOVE AND' THE PERILS OF THE DEEP, By the PRINCE OF MARITIME NOVELISTS. HHHE Proprietors of the " Canterbury Tinu» "' - 1 - have secured for Publication in that* Paper a NEW WORK Of Love, Peril and Adventure by W. CLAKK EUSSELL, • . . The World-famous Author of " The Wreck of the Grosvenor," "The Golden Hope, "TheDeath Ship," "The Good Ship Mohock," " The Tale of the Ten," " My Danish SweeW heart," and many other Stories of the Sea. THE STORY IS ENTITLED "A MIDSHIi MAK'ri ROMANCE,' And THE OPENING CHAPTERS WILLAPPEAR on SEPTEMBER 28. Probably no kind of novel appeals to ever/ class of reader in all parts of the British Empire in the same way and with the same forca as does the novel of the sea. With every generation the commerce of the world is more and xnoje 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 andY women of all ages never tire of Btories dealingwith 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 »otld> has yet known. As sketched in his stones ■•>.•""■ >s ship becomes a living thing, and the reader who has at any time sailed on the sea can again feel the breath of thewind 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 asailor, and so great iB his skill in turning to practical account his experiences aboard ship that if one need a bracing change and cannott take a sea voyage he may be recommended to" 1 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 1 , real-, ietio descriptions of ocean life; pleasant, attractive characters; and a charming style of narrative. . The love element iB pronuneatt throughout, and the story ends happily. THE FIRST INSTALMENT WILL APPEAit /' SEPTEMBER 28.