The Strife of the Sea
by T. Jenkins Hains
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Stories of the sea by a man who has followed it as a business. These are imaginary tales of the whale, the shark, the penguin, the albatross, and others. Mr. Hains is the author of "The Wind-jammers." — The Bookman, Volume XVIII, page 441.
In "The Strife of the Sea" (Baker & Taylor Co.) Mr. T. Jenkins Hains undertakes to do for the denizens of the sea and its shores what Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton has done for land animals and their human hunters and companions. He does it in practically the same manner, also, and seems to find it easy to assign a fairly human psychology to pelicans, penguins, and albatrosses on one side, and to rorquals, loggerhead turtles, sharks, albicore, and the giant rays or devilfish on the other. Most of the stories deal with mankind as well, but the essential thing is the sea bird, cetacean, or huge fish which he has described. As the inhabitants of the waters and their shores are predatory in the extreme, there is slaughter and to spare throughout the book, though lives are saved almost as often as they are lost. The book is striking, and in subject matter—though not in treatment—is sufficiently original. — The Dial, Volume XXXVI, page 24.
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