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In Northern Mists.*

Da. NANSEN'S history of early Arctic exploration—the most important work of its kind that has yet appeared—owed its origin to a request to contribute a volume on Arctic voyages......

Books.

THE SYMPOSIARCH.* TnE novels of Thomas Love Peacock have a quality unique in English literature. It is with the amused curiosity of Lucian, rather than the fierce mockery of......