Henrietta Street
1901
Preface
Most of the Essays brought together in the present volume have been published in the Spectator, and are here reproduced by the kind permission of the proprietors of that journal, for which I offer them my hearty thanks. It may perhaps not be out of place to mention, for the benefit of any who may wish to know why these Articles have been published in book form, that the action has been taken in deference to the wishes of a very large number of friends who, having read the sketches in the Spectator, desired to have them collected in a permanent and handy shape.
Contents
| PAGE | |
| The Orphan | [1] |
| A Porpoise Myth | [21] |
| Cats on Board Ship | [28] |
| The Old East Indiaman | [38] |
| The Floor of the Sea | [45] |
| Shakespeare and the Sea | [52] |
| The Skipper of the “Amulet” | [60] |
| Among the Enchanted Isles | [71] |
| Sociable Fish | [79] |
| Alligators and Mahogany | [101] |
| Country Life on Board Ship | [110] |
| “The Way of a Ship” | [169] |
| Sea Etiquette | [184] |
| Waves | [191] |
| A Battleship of To-day | [199] |
| Nat’s Monkey | [206] |
| Big Game at Sea | [218] |
| A Sea Change | [230] |
| Last Voyage of the “Sarah Jane” | [242] |
| Sea-Superstitions | [254] |
| Ocean Winds | [260] |
| The Sea in the New Testament | [268] |
| The Polity of a Battleship | [276] |
| The Privacy of the Sea | [284] |
| The Voices of the Sea | [292] |
| The Calling of Captain Ramirez | [302] |
| Marathon of the Seals | [313] |
| Ocean Currents | [319] |
| The Undying Romance of the Sea | [327] |
| Sailors’ Pets | [334] |
| The Survivors | [341] |
| Beneath the Surface | [351] |
| By Way of Amends | [361] |
| The Mystery of the “Solander” | [371] |
| Our Amphibious Army | [381] |