ADVENTURES OF CARL RYDELL.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SEAFARING MAN.
Edited by ELMER GREEN.
One Volume. Demy 8 vo. With Illustrations and Map. 18 s. net.
This is a thrilling tale of adventure by a sailor of the old school, in various parts of the world. Carl Rydell is a Swede who began his remarkable career in the Swedish Navy. But being of an unruly disposition he soon got into trouble with the authorities, worked his way out to America and had a chequered career for many years, finally coming to anchor as Superintendent of the Nautical School in the Philippine Islands. “I am not proud of some of my doings,” he says, “but I have told the bad along with the good;” and as few men can have seen more of the seamy side of a sailor’s life, his narrative is extraordinarily interesting. In 1888 Rydell found himself in San Francisco, and it was on the Pacific coast that most of the following years were spent. That was the exciting period of the gold rush to Alaska, the period of sea-otter hunting and fur-seal “piracy,” when bold men defied the law at the risk of their lives and were ready to suffer incredible hardships in their lust for gold. Many curious characters, the flotsam and jetsam of civilization, figure in these pages, and the whole book is one of those rare human documents which a seafaring life occasionally creates for the enjoyment of the stay-at-home reader.
A HUNDRED YEARS IN THE HIGHLANDS.
By OSGOOD MACKENZIE.
New and Cheaper Edition: Cr. 8 vo. Illustrated. 7 s. 6 d. net.
The late Mr. Osgood Mackenzie’s delightful collection of Highland lore and memories, including those of his uncle, Dr. John Mackenzie, has passed through several editions in its original form, and has been acclaimed as worthy to rank with such classics as Scrope, St. John,and Colquhoun. This new and cheaper edition will undoubtedly be warmly welcomed by a large circle of readers for whom the price of the original work was somewhat high and will enable the possessor of the smallest library to add to it a work of the highest interest. “To all those,” said The Times, “who reverence ancient customs and lore of the West Coast Highlands, this book will be a real delight.” All forms of Highland sport are familiar to him, and he possesses a keen and kindly sense of humour, which gives rise to many a well-told anecdote and permeates the whole book.
