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The Strife of the Sea
Stories of the sea by a man who has followed it as a business. These are imaginary tales of the whale, the shark, the penguin, the albatross, and others. Mr. Hains is the author of "The Wind-jammers." — *The Bookman, Volume XVIII, page 441.* In "The Strife of the Sea" (Baker & Taylor Co.) Mr. T. Jenkins Hains undertakes to do for the denizens of the sea and its shores what Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton has done for land animals and their human hunters and companions. He does it in practically the same manner, also, and seems to find it easy to assign a fairly human psychology to pelicans, penguins, and albatrosses on one side, and to rorquals, loggerhead turtles, sharks, albicore, and the giant rays or devilfish on the other. Most of the stories deal with mankind as well, but the essential thing is the sea bird, cetacean, or huge fish which he has described. As the inhabitants of the...
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