Alaska : an Empire in the Making. By John L.
Underwood. (T. Fisher Unwie. 7s. 6d. net.)—Most people who read Mr. Underwood's book will do so with a sense of growing surprise, for to most of us the country he describes is little more than a name. Yet Alaska is twice the size of the German Empire, possesses a mountain nearly twenty-five -thousand feet high, the largest glaciers in the world, and a river than which there are only five known streams of greater length. It is rich in every form of mineral—notably, of course, in gold—in timber and furs, in elk and walrus ivory, whalebone, cod, and other kinds of fish. Its scenery, to judge from Mr. Underwood's excellent photographs, can rival Norway. It has active volcanoes and disappearing islands. All these wonderful features Mr. Underwood describes in detail, and he has much to tell also of the country's history (often a bloody and terrible one where men came together to search for gold), and of the "Indians" (really Of Eskimo 'origin) who still hunt and trade over the country.
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