Vanity Fair: “The liveliest sea stories I know.”
The Referee: “The Admiral is a character ... fresh, original, and immensely diverting.”
THE BLUE PETER
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The Daily Telegraph: “For a book of sea stories delightfully fresh and humorous it would be difficult to beat ‘The Blue Peter.’”
The Athenæum: “Mr. Roberts is out for a lark in this book, and a lark he has.”
THE RED BURGEE
The Morning Post: “Mr. Morley Roberts is quite at his best.... There is not a single story in the book which is not worth reading, and we cordially recommend ‘The Red Burgee.’”
The Standard: “We should be genuinely sorry if we thought that anyone who loved the sea missed reading this book.”