THE GRAIN CARRIERS. The Times says: "The Grain Carriers' is a real book from beginning to end. It is impossible to read the book without a sense that its motive power is a passion of unusual power, and an insight into the moods of the sea, which may be compared with Mr Conrad's." "It ought to take its place among the epoch-making books, like 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and 'The Jungle.””—Manchester Dispatch. "A story intensely fascinating and moving in itself, an eloquent, accusing voice makes itself heard."-Bookman. "It does not take a seaman to be impressed by 'The Grain Carriers,' by Edward Noble (Blackwood, 6s.). It has the very spirit of the sea in every page. You taste brine as you read, and you shiver in the icy wind as you sit by the fire. Mr Joseph Conrad is equalled here, if not excelled. In spite of the talk of 'parrels' and other fearful wild-fowl unknown to landsmen, one lives through and understands every inch of the ghastly and pitiful fight made by the Padrone. It is a novel with a purpose, and a grim one. Never yet has so fierce a sledge-hammer attack been made on the conditions of the British Merchant Service on board grain-carrying ships. However good his cause may be, Mr Noble never drags it in with damage to his style. His book is strong and alive-tragic, horrible, but inspired."-Observer. "It is an epic of heroism, with a dirge-like note running through its splendid texture. In fact, the story, while in nowise losing value as a story, is a masterly study of its particular subject."-Daily Chronicle. "This is a very notable work."-Morning Leader. "An enthralling story."-Daily Graphic. The Scotsman says: "Mr Noble does for the British grain-carrying trade what Mr Upton Sinclair did for the canning industry of Chicago. His literary weapon has a finer flash and a keener edge, and he wields it with merciless vigour and skill. Its power and brilliancy and its surpassing interest are undeniable." SPRECKELJ BY THE SAME AUTHOR. Price 6s. each. THE EDGE OF CIRCUMSTANCE. WAVES OF FATE. THE LADY NAVIGATORS. FISHERMAN'S GAT. Dedicated, WITHOUT PERMISSION, ΤΟ PRESIDENTS OF THE BOARD OF TRADE, PAST AND present, IN RECOGNITION OF the DESIRE UNDERLYING THE WORDS SPOKEN by one of theM, SOME WEEKS BEFORE HE MADE STILL MORe dangerOUS THE "CONDITIONS" HE AT THE MOMENT DEPLORED. “My own surprise is not that we have not a sufficient number of sailors, but that we have 150,000 Britishers who go to sea under such conditions as prevail at present."- Vide Shipping paperThe Right Hon. D. LLOYD-GEORGE, M.P., May 23, 1906. 197571 |