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The first night the play was produced a rather funny thing happened. I, of course, had one of the best boxes in the house, so that I could watch the effect of the play on the audience. The next box to mine was occupied by an elderly gentleman and two young ladies. When the play was going on these folks kept up a constant chatter, varied now and then with a titter, that particularly annoyed me. I wanted them to admire the play. At length I reached the limit of my patience, and, rising in my box, I first riveted the old gent with my gaze and then said sternly: 'Order, sir, order.
I want to hear the play, sir. When the curtain went down there were cries for the author, and I arose, proudly and bowed my very best. I managed to steal a glance at the old gent as much as to say: 'Now, sir, you see whom you have been disturbing. I next turned to newspaper writing. The London Review was the first paper I became associated with. It died. Then I purchased a paper called the Leader - a sixpenny weekly after the style of the Saturday Review, very heavy and deep. It got into deep water and died also. While connected with these papers I did a great deal of sea story writing under various noms de plume.
No, I don't much care to give you the noms de plume. I wouldn't like to have the stories resurrected and republished as has been done in a number of cases with other author's writings. I prefer them to remain buried. Mr Joseph Cowan, of the Newcastle Chronicle, offered me a situation on his paper, and I took that, and after some time became connected with the Daily Telegraph, which connection still exists. A number of this sort of sketches have been republished in book form.
Of course my health was good. In ill-health the 'Golden Hope' took me a year to write. I rather think the 'Golden Hope' has the best plot of any of my novels.
You know I do not depend very much on plots. My books are more like and elaborate log book than anything else. Let me see. I rather think that the description of the collision in 'Jack's Courtship' is about as good as anything I have written, and the 'Voyage to St. Paul's' I also like, but it may not occur to the readers that way. But other than from heresay I don't know very much about that. When it is known that I do not get at penny from the sale of my books in America it can be believed that I take very little interest in the sale over there. I was rather amused the other day on receiving a copy of 'Lady Maud' from America marked 'sixth edition'.
Now, that, I suppose, means that the book has been quite a success over there. Well, I did not know it was published in America, although I supposed it very likely would be, as the others had been before. The copyright law that is such a bane to all authors on both sides of the Atlantic affects me very severely, if I may believe the reports of the sale of my books in America. I always got paid for the advance sheets sent to newspapers.
The Frozen Pirate
When I speak of not receiving anything for my stories from America I refer to the book form of the stories, not to the newspapers that buy advanced rights. You have not read 'The Frozen Pirate' yet I suppose? Well, I think it rather good. I took at trip to the Cape to get material for the 'Death Ship'. It is to be my version of the phantom ship, and I think I have a rather original rendering of the old story but it is not yet open for public examination. Sailors are the most unnautical men in the world.
They don't sing sea songs and hitch their trousers, and talk with an 'aye, aye'. They leave the rollicking sea songs to the fellows on the concert hall platforms. Give him a sea song and he'll smell it, and drop it. He wants none of it. I will never forget being accosted by a gentleman who had quite a reputation in his district for singing sea songs. He said, 'Mr. A terrible story of the sea, only to be read by people of strong nerves This short story was first published in The Strand Magazine in This is a facsimile that has been set in fresh type and includes the original illustrations.
The novel was an outstanding success and started a career in writing sea stories.
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This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them. Her figure-head represented a woman, naked to the waist, emerging from a cloud, and was really a sweet piece of carving. She was a ship of the old school, with big stern windows, and a quaint cuddy front and heavy spars.
Yet, built after the old-fashioned model, her lines were as clean as those of an Aberdeen clipper. She made a glorious picture, as she lay off Gravesend, the clear summer sky tinting the water of the river a pale blue, and converting it into a mirror for an ideal representation of the graceful vessel. Many boats were clustered about her side, and up and down her canvased gangway went hurrying figures. The ensign was at the peak, and at the fore floated the blue-peter, signal to those who took concern in her that she would be soon under weigh. She was bound to New York, whence she was to carry another cargo south, ultimately touching at Callao before she spread her wings for the old country.
There were a few first-class passengers on board, and some of them stood near the gangway in low and earnest talk with friends, while others were on the poop, gazing at the shore with wistful eyes. One of these was a widow, whose husband had been buried a few weeks before in the churchyard of a little Kentish town.
She was taking her boy back with her to New York, where her friends were; and there they stood, hand in hand, the child with wondering eyes everywhere, the mother with a fixed gaze upon the land which was consecrated for ever to her heart by the beloved form it held.
The river was brilliant and busy with vessels at anchor or passing to and fro, with boats pulling from shore to shore, with the gay sunshine deepening and brightening the colours of flags, or flashing white upon the outstretched canvas, and trembling in silver flakes upon the water. A tall, broad-shouldered young man stood at the gangway to receive them, and touched his cap as the captain came on board. Then, heave my boys, oh, heave together! Yo, boys, yo! Heave, my bully-boys, heave! Russell travelled to Asia and Australia.
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Off the coast of China during he witnessed the capture of the Taku Forts by combined British and French forces. Later, while he was serving on the ship Hougomont, the third mate went mad, and attacked him with a table-knife. Russell began to write of some of his experiences when he was confined to his quarters for a breach of discipline.
At the age of 21 Russell quit the Merchant Service. The privations of his eight years as a sailor had gravely damaged his health, and he was never completely healthy again for the rest of his life. The positive legacy from his service was a wealth of material on which he based a successful career as a novelist.
Russell had an office job with a commercial company for a few months, after which he decided to attempt a literary career. His first attempt was a five-act tragedy, Fra Angelico, which was staged unsuccessfully in London during He began work as a journalist, and during the next two decades wrote for a variety of newspapers including The Newcastle Daily Chronicle, The Kent County News, and most importantly for him, The Daily Telegraph, for which he wrote articles using the pseudonym "Seafarer".
During he married Alexandrina Henry, with whom he had a son and three daughters. From the early s Russell published novels using pseudonyms Sydney Mostyn and Eliza Rhyl Davies with modest success. William Clark Russell. This is a pre historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
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