As sea voyaging becomes more of Jo question of travel in vast. luxury palaces, which turn the sea into something like distant background Jand the sailor into a mere mechanic buried in a floating machinery hall, the desire for the intimate waves seems 10 grow in a section of what may. be called the land population, 'M. Alain Gerbault is a marked example of this desire for the closest inti Mr. "Sidney, Howard's ind "ses Of Es= cape" are enjoyable as representing fan English example of this desire. And there are 10 be found in the ages of recent books a number of thers.
But the woman amateur seaman relatively rare in these days and "A Girl Before the Mast" (Seribners 8s. 164.) by Betty Jacobson, deals with the marine scene from a new aspect, Tt is true that the four-master Parma, in which Miss Jacobson sails, is a giant boat compared with the tiny Crafts of M. Gerbault and Mr. Ho= ward: but it Is no floating palace. It subject to the winds end waves land has to be worked with expert anxiety in sudden squalls, Miss Jacobson signed on as an apprentice on on eventful voyage, which the Palma won a race for jerain ships round Cape Horn. The fonly other woman on board was the daughter of the Captain, Mr. Allan Villiers, who, in "The Grain Ship" has given to the world his account lof the adventure,
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