HOLDFAST GAINES (647 pp.)Odell Shepard and Willard ShepardMacmillan ($3).
A mass of Indian brawn and "wild masculine beauty," young Holdfast Uncas Gaines just bent over, tore the 400-lb. cannon from its carriage on the deck. He'd teach old George Ill's British redcoats to mess with a Connecticut Yankee ship.
As the muscles of his "bronzed back writhed like snakes," he heaved the cannon overboard. It landed spang in the British boat below. The boat split wide open; King George's minions gasped and gurgled. "Great God o' the Mountain," cried Holdfast, "what a glorious fight!"...
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