Idylls of the Sea, and Other Marine Sketches

IDYLLS OF THE SEA AND Other Marine Sketches
BY FRANK T. BULLEN, F.R.G.S. FIRST MATE AUTHOR OF THE ‘CRUISE OF THE CACHALOT’
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J. ST. LOE STRACHEY
London GRANT RICHARDS 9 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C. 1900
First printed February 1899 Reprinted April 1899; August 1899; December 1900
TO MY DEAR WIFE THIS LITTLE BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
Most of these sketches are, by the courtesy of the proprietors, reprinted from the Spectator ; the others have appeared in various magazines—the Cornhill , Good Words , Sunday Magazine , Chambers’s Journal , Country Life , National Review , and Pall Mall Gazette . To the proprietors of all these journals my hearty thanks for their kind permission to republish are hereby offered.
FRANK T. BULLEN.
In these little sketches of a few out of the innumerable multitude of ways in which the sea has spoken to me during my long acquaintance with it, I have tried with ’prentice hand to reproduce for shore-dwellers some of the things it has told me. If I were to stop and consider what other men, freeholders upon the upper slopes of the literary Olympus, have done in the same direction, I should not dare to put forth this little book.
Let my plea be that I have not seen with their eyes nor heard with their ears, but with mine own. This may have some weight with my judges—those who will buy the wares I have to sell.
FRANK T. BULLEN.
Feb. 1899.