We have received a third edition of The Life and
Work of C. J. Peck among the Eskimos, by Arthur Lewis (Hodder and Stoughton, 3s. 6d. net). Mr. Peck began life in the Navy, where he received impressions of a serious kind. (A notable story is told of how he and some associates obtained some books for the use of their shipmates in H.M.S. 'Hector' in 1874, how the case con- taining them came on board, and was refused admittance by the officer in command,-" the Government found all stores needed for the men" !) Mr. Peck purchased his discharge in 1875. In the following year he began his work among the Eskimos. Ho is still, we are glad to say, carrying it on under the auspices of the Church Missionary Society. It seems a case in which help may profitably be given; anyhow, the story is worth reading.
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