Oh, Susanna!
A Romance of the
Old American Merchant Marine
By Meade Minnigerode
"Of course the curious events which it sets forth happened many years ago, and they refer to other events which had taken place long before, at the edge of misty coast lines fringed with palms, throbbing with the sound of ceremonial gongs, in sweet-scented gardens under the shadow of gilt pagodas, and on the quarterdecks of graceful sailing ships, riding at anchor at the mouths of mysterious rivers, in the golden days of the Yankee merchant mariners.
They still have the black lacquer box in the Parsons home, and they know its story now, and that of the Laughing Elephant, and the story of the Golden Haired Girl, who sang the song that went around the world. ..."
New York G. P. Putnam's Sons London
