“A delicious book in its bright descriptions of a sunny land, where winter snow and frost are never known. There is very little of hard, dry description in the volume, but there is much of accurate information deftly conveyed in a bright, off-hand manner, and the whole work is so permeated by a sympathetic feeling and comprehension for that which is most fascinating in Bermudian life, that we get a vivid impression of naturalness from the reading of its pages.”—Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.
A NOTEWORTHY BOOK.
Our Arctic Province.
ALASKA AND THE SEAL ISLANDS.
By HENRY W. ELLIOTT.
Illustrated by Drawings from Nature, by the Author, and Maps.
One Volume, 8vo, $4.50.
Mr. Elliott has for many years been connected with the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. A scientist and a naturalist, his book on Alaska, besides being of the utmost interest to the general reader, is of great value and importance as a contribution to scientific research. The author has spent six or seven years in studying Alaska and its people, travelling from the most southerly point of the province to the most northerly, along the coast, and among the islands extending 300 miles to the west. His treatment of the seal interests is particularly full, and of especial moment in view of the fact that the contract between the United States and the Alaska Seal Company, which supplies the world with sealskins, will soon lapse, and the subject is certain to come up prominently in Government affairs. The natives and the Alaskan life Mr. Elliott writes of as one who knows his subject intimately. The illustrations, of which there are about a hundred, are engraved from the author’s original drawings and water-color paintings.
Philadelphia Record. There has scarcely been a book published on Arctic travel so vivid and picturesque in treatment, and so clear and definite in the information which it furnishes, as this work by Mr. Elliott.... It is an effective and really wonderful record of travel and exploration.
N. Y. Journal of Commerce. Other books may still be written about Alaska, but it is not easy to understand how any of them can exceed this one in interest, or in any way shake its authority as an accurate guide to “Our Arctic Province.”