30 JANUARY 1897, Page 13

The Monastery of Petschenga. By J. A. Friis. (Elliot Stock.)—

Petschenga Monastery was, while it stood, the most northerly one on the globe, standing as it did on the seventieth parallel of North Latitude, and on the actual shore of the Arctic Ocean (our map does not give 70° N.L. as touching any part of Russian Lapland). It was destroyed in 1589, just in time—here, we sup- pose, the" legendary" comes in—to save Ambrose from taking the irrevocable vows and so to enable him to marry his Anita. This is an interesting little volume apart from the romance which is mixed up with it.