NO SHIP MAY SAIL
by Charles F. Haywood'25. Nichols-Ellis, Lynn, Mass., 1942, 507 pp.,$2.00.
IN SPITE OF his legal profession the author has found the time to write a fairly long story of one Isaac Flint, of Salem, Massachusetts, who in the year 1808 revolted against Jefferson's Embargo (which prevented American ships from getting embroiled with the French and the British by the simple expedient of not allowing them to sail) and pointed the way toward a new American policy which insists on the freedom of the seas.
Early Salem is well delineated, there is plenty of action, and the story has a happy ending. Though Mr. Haywood is not a practiced novelist he has told a good story and one which in these days will help to rekindle the old American spirit, still alive at Bataan and elsewhere, which was aggressive and which never knew the word defeat.
