64 pp. Original navy blue cloth, gilt titles, brown and white ship and anchor on front cover. Black-and-white frontispiece and five engravings by George Wharton Edwards and J.O. Davidson. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Molly Elliot Seawell (October 23, 1860, Gloucester, Virginia - November 15, 1916, Washington, D. C.) was an American writer. Seawell's fiction might be distinguished into three genres: regional fiction, romances, and books for boys (primarily nautical stories). Molly Elliot Seawell was a popular and widely read writer in her time, included at the beginning of the 20th century in standard reference works on American writers and among the Times's Otis Notman's interview subjects with William Dean Howells, Jack London, and Theodore Dreiser."