"John Masefield has produced the finest literature of the year."--J. W.
BARRIE.
"John Masefield is the most interesting poetic personality of the
day."--_The Continent_.
"Ah! the story of that rounding the Horn! Never in prose has the sea
been so tremendously described."--_Chicago Evening Post_.
"Masefield's new book attracts the widest attention from those who in
any degree are interested in the quality of present-day
literature."--_Boston Transcript_.
"A remarkable poem of the sea."--_San Francisco Chronicle_.
"Vivid and thrillingly realistic."--_Current Literature_.
"A genuine sailor and a genuine poet are a rare combination; they have
produced a rare poem of the sea, which has made Mr. Masefield's position
in literature secure beyond the reach of caviling."--_Everybody's
Magazine_.
"Masefield has prisoned in verse the spirit of life at sea."--_N. Y.
Sun_.
"There is strength about everything Masefield writes that compels the
feeling that he has an inward eye on which he draws to shape new films
of old pictures. In these pictures is freshness combined with power,
which form the keynotes of his poetry."--_N. Y. Globe_.