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Shy A. Corbett-Smith. Willams and Noate, 14 Henrieita Street, Covent Garden. London Of Nelson and the North 1g the glorious day's, renown.
When to battle fierce went forth all the: might of Denmark's crown, Mr. Corbett-Smith, who is not un-Known to Shanghai readers for be hes drank of the Yangtze water and sniffed the breezes over the Huangpu, writes again the epic story of England's sea king, He admits there is nothing new that one can write about Nelson, but he has a.son of his own, and he wants to make his heart thrill to the most gallant of all our romanees of the sen and so his preface takes the form of a letter "to my son." Many another man's son will read this story and rone of England's sons will be sorry that it was written. Tt is a brave tale and: here it is. bravely told. But the book is not only a doy's story; it is a serious attempt to place before us a portrait of the great Nelson and he lives and walks through these pages in. such fashion that the boy will love them and the man will be wiled from his seat in the chimney corner and the pulses will beat faster in his veins as he sees the great panorama of the Napoleonic wars unroll before his eves,
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