Boston Literary World. A book that is a work; not a sportsman’s pastime, but a scientist’s treatise; not a history, not a mere description, not a narrative of adventure; but a carefully studied, thoroughly assimilated, intelligently written, attractively illustrated exposition of Alaska.
Chicago Herald. Nothing so complete and satisfactory has ever before appeared in print in this country as this absorbingly interesting and minutely accurate account of the great Alaskan Seal Islands, and the book must now be regarded as the standard authority on “Our Arctic Province.”
New York Times. Few books on Alaska contain so much that has real value and positive interest as this. It is an accumulation of very vital facts about that country set forth in an exact and yet attractive manner.
Boston Traveller. A standard, comprehensive work, whose scientific accuracy is beyond question, and whose graphic descriptions and vital interpretations of the resources of Alaska hold the reader with something of the charm of a romance.... The book is certainly one of the most valuable contributions to contemporary literature.
“THE ONE BOOK ON CHINA.”
THE MIDDLE KINGDOM.
A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND A NEW MAP OF THE EMPIRE.
By S. WELLS WILLIAMS, LL.D.,
Professor of the Chinese Language and Literature at Yale College; Author of Tonic and Syllabic Dictionaries of the Chinese Language.