The Game of Life and Death:  Stories of the Sea

By LINCOLN COLCORD, Author of “The Drifting Diamond,” etc.  With frontispiece.  Decorated cloth, 12mo. $1.25 net.

Upon the appearance of Mr. Colcord’s The Drifting Diamond, critics throughout the country had a great deal to say on the pictures of the sea which it contained.  Mr. Colcord was compared to Conrad, to Stevenson, and to others who have written of the sea with much success.  It is gratifying, therefore, that in this book the briny deep furnishes the background—­in some instances the plot itself—­for each one of its eleven tales.  Coupled with his own intimate knowledge and appreciation of the oceans and the life that is lived on them—­a knowledge and appreciation born in him through a long line of seafaring ancestry and fostered by his own love for the sea—­he has a powerful style of writing.  Vividness is perhaps its distinguishing characteristic, though fluency and a peculiar feeling for words also mark it.

The Mutiny of the Elsinore

By JACK LONDON, Author of “The Sea Wolf,” “The Call of the Wild,” etc.  With frontispiece in colors by Anton Fischer.  Cloth, 12mo. $1.35 net.

Everyone who remembers The Sea Wolf with pleasure will enjoy this vigorous narrative of a voyage from New York around Cape Horn in a large sailing vessel. The Mutiny of the Elsinore is the same kind of tale as its famous predecessor, and by those who have read it, it is pronounced even more stirring.  Mr. London is here writing of scenes and types of people with which he is very familiar, the sea and ships and those who live in ships.  In addition to the adventure element, of which there is an abundance of the usual London kind, a most satisfying kind it is, too, there is a thread of romance involving a wealthy, tired young man who takes the trip on the Elsinore and the captain’s daughter.  The play of incident, on the one hand the ship’s amazing crew and on the other the lovers, gives a story in which the interest never lags and which demonstrates anew what a master of his art Mr. London is.

Neighbors:  Life Stories of the Other Half

By JACOB A. RIIS, Author of “How the Other Half Lives,” etc.  With illustrations by W. T. Benda.  Decorated cloth, 12mo. $1.25 net.

One of the most remarkable books ever written is Jacob Riis’ How the Other Half Lives.  At the time of its appearance it created nothing short of a literary sensation, and it is still found among the widely read and discussed publications.  The present volume is a continuation or an elaboration of that work.  In it Mr. Riis tells with that charm which is peculiarly his own and with a wonderful fidelity to life, little human interest stories of the people of the “other half.”