No more vivid and absorbing sea story has ever been written. Mr. Hains, with his yarns of the "Wind-Jammers," placed himself at once in the front rank of the tellers of sea tales, and his latest book "Mr. Trunnell," surpasses his first effort. Mr Hains knows the sea as one who has braved all its perils and tested all its adventures. In "Mr. Trunnell," he has a tale strong in its intensity, vivid in its realism, novel in plot and action and full of the taste of salt water from first to last.

In this book the author writes of the same scenes and people he treated so successfully in The Wind-jammers. — The Bookman, Volume XI, page 278.

"A rattling good sea story." — Boston Globe.