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The Wind-Jammers
Mr. T. Jenkins Hains's volume of sea stories entitled *The Wind-Jammers* contains sixteen short sketches of sailor life which, plainly told, without attention to elaboration or detail, are all readable, and reveal a faculty for the choice of incident interesting in itself. If Mr. Hains had lengthened these episodes with such bits of description as only one who has traveled the seas could write, and had acquainted us more fully with the characteristics of the people of his stories we should have to thank him for a remarkable production. However his stories are well worth reading--full of action, excitement and the spirit of health, and his book will please those who like a frank expression of life in literature. *—The Book Buyer, Volume XVIII, page 315.* Strong sea tales that have had an unusual popularity. — *The Bookman, Volume XI, page 101.* "A collection of short sea stories...
