2 OCTOBER 1897, page 23

The First Crossing Of Spitsbergen.*

SPITSBERGEN has been discovered for three hundred years, yet the surveying expedition of Sir Martin Conway revealed the fact that every one was ignorant of the nature of the......

Admiral Sir George Rooke.*

IT is more than a little disappointing, when one opens this book, to find that Rooke's Journal has nothing to say about the capture of Gibraltar. To tell the truth, it is not a......