15 DECEMBER 1883, page 19

The Encyclopedia. Americana.* Tne Task Of Reviewing This...

review an encyclo- pa3dia may, perhaps, be considered as reducing the function of the critic to an absurdity—is happily made easy by the prefa- tory announcement of the editor's......

The Second Cruise Of The Alert:*

IN 1878, the war-sloop 'Alert,' which had already secured for itself an enviable immortality by reaching the highest northern latitude ever attained, was recommissioned by the......