7 NOVEMBER 1896, Page 13

Handbook of Arctic Discoveries. By A. W. Greely. (Sampson Low,

Marston, and Co.)—General Greely has taken, it is evident, a vast amount of trouble in "boiling down" the literature of Arctic travel,—" fifty thousand" pages, he says himself, and the calculation is manifestly no exaggeration, considering the extent of the period covered. To attempt anything like an epitome of what itself is so greatly epitomised would be absurd. We can but Commend the volume, which is one of the "Columbian Knowledge Series," to our readers. The one thing that it wants is better maps, coloured and more clear.