23 OCTOBER 1897, Page 25

A Polar Eden. By Charles R. Kenyon. (S. W. Partridge

and Co )—Erik Stephenson and Dick Grahame, with the assistance of an old savant, Mr. Sylvester, fit up a ship which is to reach the North Pole. Everything that can possibly be wanted is provided, even to the comic Irishman. And the Pole is reached. Of course there are difficulties and dangers in going and returning. There is a. Maelstrom, for instance, worse than our old friend of the Lofoden Islands ; but what they find is worth a little trouble, as readers will acknowledge. It is an old fancy this of the Happy Land beyond the north wind, from Herodotus's Hyperboreans onwards, and Mr. Kenyon does as well with it as most of his predecessors.