Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 15th November 1880, Edition 1 of 1, Page 1018

In 3 vols . crown 8 vo . 31 s , 6 d . A SAILOR'S SWEETHEART . BY W . CLARK RUSSELL , Author of The Wreck of the Grosvenor / * John Holdsworth & c From the Now York Times Review of the American Edition . ( The same vivid power of description as was found in the " Wreck of the Grosvenor " meets one at every page in the book Very certainly " A Sailor's Sweetheart , " like the " Wreck of the Grosvenor , " will be read in many a drawing-room , as it will be devoured in the fore-hatch of many a merchantman . * The American Iiiterary World says : Four years ago there appeared in England an anonymous story of sea adventure , entitled i ( The Wreck of the Grosvenor , " the exceptional merits of which the " Literary World " was the first , as far as we know , to discover and announce in this country . The like of it we did not expect soon to see , certainly not from the hand of the same author ; so many are our disappointments over " second books . " But we must say that in A Sailor ' s Sweetheart " Mr . W . Clark Russell has surpassed even " The Wreck of the Grosvenor , " and told a tale which , for originality of plan , inventive skill , descriptive power , and romantic interest , comes near to being the most remarkable marine novel we have ever read . The profound realism with which it is conceived , the technical accuracy with which its details are wrought out , the vividness of its pictures of storm and shipwreck , the individuality with which its characters are drawn , and its succession of exciting incident , from the fog in the English Channel to the overhauling of the Eagle" in the South Pacific , combine to produce a work of extraordinary power . In one sense , no narrative could be more sensational ; but its style is so simple and straightforward that it reads like a veritable history ; indeed , the author assures us it is founded on actual facts . But only a consummate art could present such facts with such intensity of imaginative form . The scenes of this story live in our minds with the vividness of personal observation . The portraits of all the people on board are wonderfully well done The interest of the story intensifies as it proceeds , and culminates by a remarkably ingenious succession of highly dramatic events . .... Not the least remarkable feature of this story is it * incidental descriptions of marine landscape—especially the aspects of skies and clouds , some of which are so full of brilliancy and power as to make the reader think instinctively of the triumphs of Turner ' s pencil We have purposely g iven but a bare outline of "A Sailor ' s Sweetheart" in order not to spoil it for its readers , who , we it does trust , a will fter be " The many Wreck . In its of field the Grosvenor it is a singularl " fixes y successful its author performance ' s lace in , the and front , coming rank as of , p nautical novelists in the English language . ' London ; SAMPSON Crown LOW Building , MARSTON * , 188 Fleet , Street SBARLE , E . C . , & RIVINGTON , ( 008 ) 1 ft ^ ^

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