In "The Children's Favourite Series" (E. Arnold) we have two
volumes, My Book of Perils, in which the balloons of the Siege of Paris, the trenches in the Crimea, and various other scenes of war, hunting, and exploration furnish the contents, and My Book of Wonders, in which the great buildings and engineering works of
the world, old and new, are described. Among these we have the Menai, the Tower, and the Brooklyn Bridges, the Great Wheel, the Manchester Ship Canal, and the Suez Canal, and various
other marvels of man's industry, courage, and skill.—In Stories of North Pole Adventure, by Frank Mundell (S.S.U.), we have many of the attempts, as heroic as they are, unhappily, unprofit-
able, which have been made to reach the North Pole. The writer begins with Henry Hudson, and carries down the story to the present time, when the Nansen and Harmsworth expeditions are still at work. A third explorer, the gallant Peary, is included in the chapter, but his efforts are at present suspended.—Two volumes, devoted to the story of science, regarded from the point
of view of biography, are Telford and Brindley (W. and R. Cham- bers), and Thomas ANa Edison, the Telegraph Boy who Became a Great Inventor, by C. C. Kenyon (same publishers).
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