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Show I A TELLER OF SEA-TALES. Down to the Sea By Morgan Robertson. Published by Harper &, Brothers, New York; A. K. Derge & Co.. Salt Lake. The author of "Sinful Peck" and 'Spun-Yarn" 'Spun-Yarn" Is always sure of an appreciative 1 constituency of readers. He Is great In spinning sea yarns. This book Is made up of a number of happily told stories, which no render can fall to enjoy. The author was himself a pallor for many years, so that he Is able to glvo hie stories a vital 1 power of reality which stamps them as the pure thing. They arc told with a t blunt directness that betrays tho man of action rather than tho man of sentiment or elaboration, and aro oil tho more ta-j ta-j king on that nccounl, for wo havo plenty of tho delicacies in writing, and too little of tho force. Thesa talcs rango widely from broad humor to deep pathos, clever Ingenuity, and thrilling horror. A rival for Kipling's "Mulvnncy" is found In 'Flnncgari," a rough and ready old salt, 'lie stories nro "Tho Closing of tho Cir-c Cir-c tilt," "A Cow, Two Mon, and. a Parson," The Rivals," "A Chemical Cpmcdy," "A Horo of tho Cloth," "Tho Subconscious Flnncgan," "Tho Torpedo," "Tho Submarine," Sub-marine," "Fifty Fathoms Down," "Tho Enemies," "The Vitality of Dennis," "Tho Helix," "The Shark," "The Mutl-, Mutl-, ny." And every ono of them Is first-class. |