The Red Rover is most completely a book of the sea -- as much so as
The Mohicans is a tale of the forest. The whole drama is almost
entirely enacted on the ocean. The curtain rises in port; but the
varied scenes, so full of nautical interest, and succeeding each
other in startling rapidity, are wholly unfolded on the bosom of
the deep. It is believed that there is scarcely another book in
178] English literature so essentially marine in spirit. It is like
some material picture of the sea, drawn by a master hand, where the
eye looks abroad over the rolling waves, where it glances at the
sea-bird fluttering amid the spray, and then rests upon the gallant
ship, with swelling canvas, bending before the breeze, until the
land behind us, and the soil beneath our own feet, are forgotten.
In the Rover, the different views of the ocean, in majestic
movement, are very noble, while the two vessels which carry the
heart of the narrative with them come and go with wonderful power
and grace, guided by the hand of one who was both pilot and poet in
his own nature. class, is insignificant, though Gertrude is
certainly very pretty and proper, which is much more than one would
venture to aver of many heroines of the present hour. In reality,
however, our worthy friends Dick Fid, that arrant old foretopman,
and his comrade, S'ip, are the true lovers of the narrative; and
most worthy and most real they are -- the last, indeed, is a noble
creature, a hero under the skin of Congo. As for Wilder, the author
professed to owe him an apology for having thrown a sufficiently
clever fellow, and an honorable man no doubt, into a position
slightly equivocal; he declared himself however, very much indebted
to a friendly critic who saw much to admire in the course pursued
by the young lieutenant -- this crachat of the obliging reviewer
relieving the author's mind, as he avowed, of a great weight of
responsibility on that particular point
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