Show Delightful Sea Tale Also Authentic I Record of Doughty Old Fishermen I I By MORRIS DE HAVEN TRACY why it i is that when people write and publishers publish books dealing with ships and particularly the he fast vanishing sailing ships they hey dont don't Insert Insen a dia diagram am or two showing a vessel with wih all al its sails sais masts and rigging identified for the benefit of the landlubber has alwa's always al- al ways was been a mystery to this re re- re viewer It would add to the tho understanding understanding un- un of the Uie tales which by their heir very nature have to contain some ome of the terminology of the sea sea and the they would satisfy a curiosity that hat every ever man who likes Ikes to read of the sea seems sees to lave have have S That is abo about t the only thIn thing that thatIs Is i s lacking hacking lacking In John Connolly's latest jook The Book of the Gloucester Fishermen published by the John Day company It is written in the style tyle which has always made Connolly's Connolly's Con- Con nolly's lolly's stories stores stores' of the sea so ful ul It I is i a well printed and wel- wel well well- bound volume which graces any library And it i Is Illustrated with Wih wood cuts culs by Henry OConnor O'Connor In in which the character of the men the grace of the ships tho tle ferocity of the he sea and the warmth of L old Gloucester all al seem to have been caught aught and set down b by the tho artist artst in In a way this book is for fo the fish fish- ermen of Gloucester wha what Two Years Before tho the Mast was to the theold theold old Id It I constitutes wh what t seems to be the authentic and readable readable read read- able ble record of the full ull ul of or exciting stories and giving a it picture picture not exaggerated and no- no t I J I 1 r I where fulsome of o of the life these fishermen led lcd and still sti are lead lead- I I. I I ing Maurice Whalen Tommy BOh Bohlin n I Saul Jones and a lot Jot more of the he theold theold old sail sai carriers of ot Gloucester I some sonic still livin living In the quaint quiet I Massachusetts own on where Jn in inmany i man many cases they were were wee born and raised come to life In Us its is pages Their ships thc ships the Harry HarrY Belden the annie Nannie Bohlin BohUn and all al the rest resl restive live ive lve too And t there thre re is an inside story torl ot of the the he race across the Atlantic for tor cup offered by Kaiser Wilhelm Wihelm when Tommy Bohlin sailed saied Dr Lewis LwIs A. A Stimsons Stimson's Fleur de L Lys s 's In Inan inan an outstanding passage for a ve vessel sel and of the Gloucester fishe fishermens fishermen's fisher 1 mens men's races against the Nova Novar Scotia Scota boats of the exploits of oil Howard Joward Blackburn and Georg Johnson who sailed their little boats bats Allan Atlan Atlantic merel merely dory's dorys across dorys across the Atan- Atan tic tc ic and to many strange S alone Connol Connolly himself himsel had bad ha saIled salle saie ftc e- e through many a storm and In quent drives before and against th gales sales of the tho fishing banks with wih the th doughty old skippers arid and a although hoUgh he Is telling stories which ormeS represent his own experiences H it i 1 notable that the book does n not net U Um Impress m press as ns being told in the first Person erson peron One realizes Connolly Connoly s 's In n it it but not In a a way at to make tl the reader eader conscious of the ular lar pronoun pronoun-a pronoun pronoun-a a considerable SC Ie United United Press 5 |