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the inclusion of two extracts on whale-hunting from 

 Herman Melville's masterpiece Moby Dick, One 

 of the chief pleasures found in the compilation of an 

 anthology is to discover in the unexpected, obscure 

 author part of the charm of the master, and it is 

 not the least of the pleasures felt by its readers to 

 rediscover old favourites, old, yet ever new in their 

 appeal. 



Samuel J. Looker. 



