BY PROFESSOR JOHN C. VAN DYKE
The Opal Sea
Continued Studies in Impressions and Appearances
With Frontispiece. 12mo, $1.25 net
“Prof. Van Dyke takes his reader’s imagination captive with prose in which we feel the sea’s own glamour of beauty and movement and mystery, its glory of color and power.”—New York Tribune.
“Pleasure awaits the reader of ‘The Opal Sea.’”—Boston Evening Transcript.
“The history, the poetry, the science, and the endless aspects of the sea are given in a style that will charm all lovers of the ocean.”—The Independent.
“Will be read for the pleasure which the work of a skillful observer wielding a practised pen is bound to give; and the pleasure will be great. Prof. Van Dyke is a master of the art of ‘seascape’ who need fear no comparison.”—The Spectator (London).
“No English writer, and no other writer except Michelet, has done as much as Mr. Van Dyke to arrange attractively what has been in the course of ages learned about the sea.”—The World (London).