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Updated: July 19, 2025
The scene of the first is laid wholly on the water. In its movement, its variety of incidents, and the spirit and energy with which they are told, it is one of the best of Cooper's sea-novels.
Even among this, Masterman Ready and The Children of the New Forest, "children's books," as they may be called, rank very high in their kind. But he counts here, of course, for his sea-novels mainly: and in them there are several things for us to notice.
They are inarticulate, but have found a spokesman and a champion in the poet. His sea-poems in this respect resemble Conrad's sea-novels. This is perhaps one of the chief functions of the man of letters, whether he be poet, novelist or dramatist never to let us forget the anonymous army of toilers.
Reading sea-novels had not really taught me much, for there was not one in all that the Jew-clerk lent or sold me which explained ship's language and customs. But the school-master had given me many useful hints, and experience soon taught me how to apply them.
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