is a real boy,
full of spirit and fun and courage and the wish to distinguish himself.
In a word, as the lads say, he's "all right, all right!" He sails,
fishes, travels the ice, goes whaling, is swept to sea with the ice,
captures a devil-fish, hunts a pirates' cave, gets lost on a cliff, is
wrecked, runs away to join a sealer, and makes himself interesting in a
hundred ways. He's a good chum, in calm or gale, on water, ice or
shore--that's what Billy Topsail o' Ruddy Cove is.

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By NORMAN DUNCAN

_Doctor Luke of The Labrador_

12mo, Cloth, $1.50.

_N. Y. Evening Post_: "Mr. Duncan is deserving of much praise for this,
his first novel.... In his descriptive passages Mr. Duncan is sincere to
the smallest detail. His characters are painted in with bold, wide
strokes.... Unlike most first novels, 'Dr. Luke' waxes stronger as it
progresses."

_Henry van Dyke_: "It is a real book, founded on truth and lighted with
imagination, well worth reading and remembering."

_Review of Reviews_: "Mr. Duncan has added a new province to the realm
of literature. This strong, beautiful love story moves with a
distinctive rhythm that is as fresh as it is new. One of the season's
two or three best books."

_Hamilton W. Mabie, in the Ladies' Home Journal_: "Full of incidents,
dramatically told, of the heroism and romance of humble life: strong,
tender, pathetic; one of the most wholesome stories of the season."

_Current Literature_: "Beyond a peradventure, ranks as one of the most
remarkable novels issued in 1904. Stands out so prominently in the
year's fiction that there is little likelihood of its being
overshadowed."

_London Punch_: "Since Thackeray wrote the last word of 'Colonel
Newcome,' nothing finer has been written than the parting scene where
Skipper Tommy Lovejoy, the rugged old fisherman, answers the last call."

_Saturday Evening Post_: "There is enough power in this little volume to
magnetize a dozen of the popular novels of the winter."

_Sir Robert Bond, Premier of Newfoundland_: "I shall prize the book. It
is charmingly written, and faithfully portrays the simple lives of the
noble-hearted fisher folk."

_Brooklyn Eagle_: "Norman Duncan has fulfilled all that was expected of
him in this story; it establishes him beyond question as one of the
strong masters of present-day fiction."

_26th 1000_

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