" By PIERRE LOTI
The Salving of the _Yan-Shan_
From "In Blue Waters." By H. DE VERE STACKPOOLE
The Derelict _Neptune_
From "Spun Gold." By MORGAN ROBERTSON
The Terrible Solomons
From "South Sea Tales." By JACK LONDON
El Dorado
From "A Tarpaulin Muster." By JOHN MASEFIELD
ILLUSTRATION
Song sung by labor gang.
FOREWORD
The theme of the sea is heroic--epic. Since the first stirrings of the
imagination of man the sea has enthralled him; and since the dawn of
literature he has chronicled his wanderings upon its vast bosom.
It is one of the curiosities of literature, a fact that old Isaac
Disraeli might have delighted to linger over, that there have been no
collectors of sea-tales; that no man has ever, as in the present
instance, dwelt upon the topic with the purpose of gathering some of
the best work into a single volume. And yet men have written of the
sea since 2500 B.C. when an unknown author set down on papyrus his
account of a struggle with a sea-serpent. This account, now in the
British Museum, is the first sea-story on record. Our modern
sea-stories begin properly with the chronicles of the early
navigators--in many of which there is an unconscious art that none of
our modern masters of fiction has greatly surpassed.
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