THIRD IMPRESSION. 



"Neither Mr Kipling nor Mr Conrad 

 has produced a story of the sea more 

 enthralling or more convincingly true." 

 'Bookman. 



'THE ATHEN&UM 1 says 

 "This is a book of 

 altogether remarkable 

 and outstanding merit. 

 It is a novel of a sort 

 which does not always 

 reach the reviewer 

 even once a=year. . . . 

 It is a piece of litera- 

 ture." 



THE 



EDGE 



OF 



CIRCUMSTANCE. 



By EDWARD NOBLE. 



"Not unworthy of comparison with 

 such an admitted masterpiece as Mr 

 Conrad's ' Typhoon.' "Spectator. 



