From the London Morning Herald of March 4, 1850; now accessible on The British Newspaper Archive with pages recently digitized in this very month of June 2021.
LITERATURE.
BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED.
...
White Jacket; or, The World in a Man of War. By Herman Melville, Author of “Redburn,” “Typee,” &c. Two Vols. R. Bentley.— A cruise in an American man of war is the subject of this novel, which conveys a lively and, no doubt, accurate description of the mode of life on board vessels of that class. The author served as a common sailor in the American navy for more than a year, and his reflections arising from personal experience are incorporated in these volumes. He offers many suggestions for improving the internal economy of vessels of war and for bettering the condition of the sailor, without impairing the efficiency of the service. He expatiates particularly on the subject of flogging in the navy, which he conceives might be much abated, if not altogether relinquished. The novel is very entertaining, and full of such information as could only be afforded by one who has served before the mast.
--London Morning Herald, 4 March 1850.
Related post:
- London Morning Herald notices of The Whale
https://melvilliana.blogspot.com/2021/06/london-morning-herald-notices-of-whale.html
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