Under cotton canvasThe Onward's last voyage . e could be any pleasurein being at sea in a northeaster, plunging through ahead sea, and with the ship constantly enveloped ina wretched maze of rain, snow or sleet. Beingsomewhat out of humor with old Neptune, I couldnot be quite sure that I had not become afraid ofhim; and to ascertain whether or not this was thecase, had a great deal of weight in my choosing theoutside route, instead of that via Cape Charles,which is nearly all rail. But I have rarely enjoyed a situation better thanI did this, when the captain and officers of thesteamer were sea
Under cotton canvasThe Onward's last voyage . e could be any pleasurein being at sea in a northeaster, plunging through ahead sea, and with the ship constantly enveloped ina wretched maze of rain, snow or sleet. Beingsomewhat out of humor with old Neptune, I couldnot be quite sure that I had not become afraid ofhim; and to ascertain whether or not this was thecase, had a great deal of weight in my choosing theoutside route, instead of that via Cape Charles,which is nearly all rail. But I have rarely enjoyed a situation better thanI did this, when the captain and officers of thesteamer were searching anxiously for the lights ofthe New Jersey coast. The contrast was so greatbetween my thorough irresponsibility and the sus-pense I am usually in at such times, that I am afraidI enjoyed their perplexity as much as one ought toenjoy a sermon. The Old Dominion Company hadundertaken to land me in New York, and I eitherfelt perfectly confident that they could do it, or wasentirely indifferent to whether or not they shouldsucceed. The frWO DELIGHTFUL BOOKS, Phillips Brooks : Bishop of Massachusetts. An Estimate. By Newell Dunbar. Illustrated with views of Trinity Church, Boston. i vol. Elzevir, i6mo, 113 pp. White and gold, $ ; cloth, A refined and scholarly study of a great man. — Boston Seems to have been written because the author could nothelp it. — New York Jmtrnal of Commerce. Watchwords from John Boyle OReilly: Edited and with Estimate by Katherine E. Conway. Beautifully illustrated. i vol. Elzevir, i6mo, 100 pp. White and gold, ^ ; cloth, $ was not an Irishman, but a son of the Puritans,who wrote of John Boyle OReilly: I wish we couldmake all the people in the world standstill and think andfeel about this rare, great, exquisite-souled man until theyshould fully comprehend him. Boyle was the greatestman, the finest heart and soul I knew. MEDICAL BOOKS FOR LAYREADERS. Therapeutic Sarcogriojuy; A New Science of Soul, Brain and Body. Ey Jos
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