BOOKS BY FRANK T. BULLEN.
Deep-Sea Plunderings.
Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
Mr. Bullen, who has proved himself a past master of deep-water literature, affords in these pages a series of brilliant and often dramatic pictures of the sailor's life and adventures. While the picturesque enters into his book, he deals also with the stern verities of fo'c'sle life, and he brings before the reader strange and bewildering phases of deep-water adventuring which will lay firm hold upon the imagination.
The Apostles of the Southeast.
12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"Mr. Bullen's characters are living ones, his scenes full of life and realism, and there is not a page in the whole book which is not brimful of deepest interest."—Philadelphia Item.
The Log of a Sea-Waif.
Being Recollections of the First Four Years of my Sea Life. Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"So strong, original, and thrilling as to hold captive the attention of the mature as well as of the youthful reader."—Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The Cruise of the Cachalot,
Round the World after Sperm Whales. Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"It is immense—there is no other word. I've never read anything that equals it in its deep-sea wonder and mystery, nor do I think that any book before has so completely covered the whole business of whale-fishing, and, at the same time, given such real and new sea pictures. I congratulate you most heartily. It's a new world you've opened the door to."—Rudyard Kipling.
Idylls of the Sea.
12mo. Cloth, $1.25.
"Amplifies and intensifies the picture of the sea which Mr. Bullen had already produced.... Calm, shipwreck, the surface and depths of the sea, the monsters of the deep, superstitions and tales of the sailors—all find a place in this strange and exciting book."—Chicago Times-Herald.
BY CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY.
The Quiberon Touch.
A Romance of the Sea. With frontispiece. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"A story to make your pulse leap and your eyes glisten. It fairly glows with color and throbs with movement."—Philadelphia Item.
"This story has a real beauty; it breathes of the sea. Fenimore Cooper would not be ashamed to own a disciple in the school of which he was master in these descriptions of the tug of war as it was in the eighteenth century between battle-ships under sail."—New York Mail and Express.
Commodore Paul Jones.
A new volume in the Great Commander Series, edited by General James Grant Wilson. With Photogravure Portrait and Maps. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50 net; postage, 11 cents additional.
"A thousand times more interesting than any of the so-called historical romances that are now in vogue."—Spirit of the Times.
"Mr. Brady's vigorous style, vivid imagination, and dramatic force are most happily exhibited in this book."—Philadelphia Press.
"Incomparably fine. Being the work of a scholarly writer, it must stand as the best popular life yet available. The book is one to buy and own. It is more interesting than any novel, and better written than most histories."—Nautical Gazette.
Reuben James.
A Hero of the Forecastle. A new volume in the Young Heroes of Our Navy Series. Illustrated by George Gibbs and Others. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.
"A lively and spirited narrative."—Boston Herald.
"Mr. Brady has made a stirring tale out of the material before him, one of those brilliant and forceful descriptions of the glories of the old wooden-walled navy, which stir the blood like a trumpet call."—Brooklyn Eagle.
By EDGAR STANTON MACLAY, A. M.
A History of the United States Navy. (1775 to 1902.)—New and revised edition.
In three volumes, the new volume containing an Account of the Navy since the Civil War, with a history of the Spanish-American War revised to the date of this edition, and an Account of naval operations in the Philippines, etc. Technical Revision of the first two volumes by Lieutenant Roy C. Smith, U. S. N. Illustrated. 8vo. Cloth, $3.00 net per volume; postage, 26 cents per volume additional.
In the new edition of Vol. III, which is now ready for publication, the author brings his History of the Navy down to the present time. In the prefaces of the volumes of this history the author has expressed and emphasized his desire for suggestions, new information, and corrections which might be utilized in perfecting his work. He has, therefore, carefully studied the evidence brought out at the recent Schley Court of Inquiry, and while the findings of that Court were for the most part in accordance with the results of his own historical investigations, he has modified certain portions of his narrative. Whatever opinions may be held regarding any phases of our recent naval history, the fact remains that the industry, care, and thoroughness, which were unanimously praised by newspaper reviewers and experts in the case of the first two volumes, have been sedulously applied to the preparation of this new edition of the third volume.
A History of American Privateers.
Uniform with "A History of the United States Navy." One volume. Illustrated. 8vo. Cloth, $3.00 net; postage, 24 cents additional.
After several years of research the distinguished historian of American sea power presents the first comprehensive account of one of the most picturesque and absorbing phases of our maritime warfare. The importance of the theme is indicated by the fact that the value of prizes and cargoes taken by privateers in the Revolution was three times that of the prizes and cargoes taken by naval vessels, while in the War of 1812 we had 517 privateers and only 23 vessels in our navy. Mr. Maclay's romantic tale is accompanied by reproductions of contemporary pictures, portraits, and documents, and also by illustrations by Mr. George Gibbs.
The Private Journal of William Maclay,
United States Senator from Pennsylvania, 1789-1791. With Portrait from Original Miniature. Edited by Edgar Stanton Maclay, A. M. Large 8vo. Cloth, $2.25.
During his two years in the Senate William Maclay kept a journal of his own in which he minutely recorded the transactions of each day. This record throws a flood of light on the doings of our first legislators.