 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...  Literary News - Page 641899Full view - About this book
 | American wit and humor - 1899 - 540 pages
...Kipling does live to read it, and exclaims : " I've never read anything that equals it in its deep-sea wonder and mystery; nor do I think that any book before...the same time given such real and new sea pictures." That is the opinion of an expert. A landlubber and a layman can only set down his admiration for it... | |
 | Kate Sanborn, Katherine Abbott Sanborn - Biography & Autobiography - 1893 - 222 pages
..." 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...such real and new sea pictures. I congratulate you mos_t heartily. It's a new world you've opened the door to. " — Rudyard Kipling. Idylls of the Sea.... | |
 | Maarten Maartens - 1893 - 494 pages
...i.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 6shing, and, at the same .nne, given such real and new sea pictures. I congratulate you most... | |
 | Frank Thomas Bullen - Seafaring life - 1898 - 432 pages
...— It is immense — there is no other word. I've never read anything that equals it in its deepsea wonder and mystery; nor do I think that any book before...the same time given such real and new sea pictures. You have thrown away material enough to make five books, and I congratulate you most heartily. It's... | |
 | Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal) - 1898 - 464 pages
...NY, 1899. Map and illustrations. 417.9.1 " I Ve never read anything that equals it in its deep-sea wonder and mystery; nor do I think that any book before...same time given such real and new sea pictures."— Rudyard Kipling. Colquhoun, AR China in transformation. NY, 1898. Frontispiece, maps and diagrams.... | |
 | Frank Thomas Bullen - Sea stories - 1899 - 430 pages
...— It is immense — there is no other word. I've never read anything that equals it in its deepsea wonder and mystery ; nor do I think that any book...the same time given such real and new sea pictures. You have thrown away material enough to make five books, and I congratulate you most heartily. It's... | |
 | American literature - 1899 - 556 pages
...11 It is immense — there is no othet word. I've never read anything that equals it in its deep-sea wonder and mystery, nor do I think that any book before...the same time given such real and new sea pictures. 1 congratulate you most heartily. It's a new world that you've opened the door to." — Rudjard Kipling.... | |
 | William Jay Youmans - Science - 1899 - 944 pages
...: It is immense — there is no other word. I've never read anything that equals it in its deepsea wonder and mystery ; nor do I think that any book...business of whalefishing, and at the same time given such FRANK T. But-LSN. The success which Mr. Frank T. Bullen has won by the force and vividness of his pictures... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1899 - 960 pages
...no other word. I 've never read anything that equals it in its deep-sea wonder and mystery, nor do 1 think that any book before has so completely covered...whalefishing, and at the same time given such real and new aea pictures. 1 congratulate you most heartily. It 'sa new world that you 've opened the door to."—... | |
 | Tom Gallon - 1899 - 412 pages
..."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... | |
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