24 SEPTEMBER 1898, Page 24

With Ski and Sledge over Arctic Glaciers. By Sir Martin

Con- -way. (J. M. Dent and Co.)—Sir Martin Conway supplements in this volume the story which he told in his "First Crossing of 'Spitsbergen." (Let every one take warning that to say Spitzbergen is an "ignorant blunder.") He landed on July 9th, with one English and two Norwegian companions, and 'was fetched away, according to arrangement, on August 12th,— not, however, till he and his companions had had some anxious moments, food being exhausted, and the rescuing vessel not in eight. The descriptions of glaciers and the work which they -demand from the traveller is very good, and there are some 'highly picturesque accounts of scenery. The special value of the book will be found in the observations on the glaciers.