The National tribune., 1886-12-02
RECENT LITERATURE.
OUR ARCTIC PROVINCE. By Henry w. Elliott
New York: Charles Scribners Sons. $3.50.

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| OUR ARCTIC PROVINCE BY Henry W. Elliott.
New York: Charles Seribner's Sons. $3.50.
A large audience, which Lieut. Sehwatka has
| probably done more to create than any other
| traveller, has awaited a comprehensive account
of Alaska, such as Mr.. Henry w. Elliott now
| furnishes. Few appreciate the size and impor-
| tance of Alaska as maps of il on q greatly re-
duced scale are usually tucked away in the
| extreme northwest corners of the pages of our
| Biographies, and rarely does any traveller or
/ hunter know much about the general aspects
| OF the country, the former touching at Sitka,
perhaps and the latter cruising along its coasts.
| Seven million two hundred thousand dollars
| paid into the Russian treasury secured to the
United States $4,000 square miles, superficial
area cor, in round numbers" says Mr.. Elliott,
| lust One-sixth OF the entire extent of the
| United States and Territories" Long before
\ its importance was fully realized foreign traders
| found their way there after its rich furs; and
their desperate struggle with the climate, the
| natives and with other cruisers form some Of
| the most exciting of Mr.. Ellott's chapters.
| Gradually the rage for fur trading in Alaska
| increased. Companies for catching seals and
| offers were formed, and now 100000 seal skins
are shipped TO London annually by one COM
pany alone. Mr.. Elliott dwells upon the fur
fisheries at great length, describing the various
animals whose skins are taken, but especially
seals, as only an author can who has studied
his subject carefully.
TEN DOLLARS ENOUGH. BY Catherine Owen.
| Boston and New York: Houghton, AIifflin * Co.
81. Sold in Washington by Ballantyne.
This book is about keeping house well on
| $40 week; how il has been done and how it
may be done again." The attractiveness and
varied character of the bills of fare that may be
had within the amount named are surprising,
aud will be in the nature of q revelation to
most housekeepers. The whole is delightfully."-
| told in the form of a story. The book contains
a multitude of recipes for economical dishes.
| To almost any family the book is worth hun
| dred times its cost
THE BOW OF ORANGE RIBBON. By Amelia
| l.. Barr. New York: DOdd Mead u Co. Sold
in Washington by Bailantyne.
A story of New York life more than hun
| dred years ago. when the city was ruled by the
| Dutch and there were apple orchards behind
| Trinity church. The author has given the tale
a quaint eolOring; has woven plot full of sur
| prises and succeeded in making q very read
| able story. The characters are few and simple ::
there is none of the false sentimentality of
these days; and where there is action it springs
| from high motives. There was faith, moral
! courage, and strength of character at the time
of which she writes, and all these traits are
well brought out. A good love story of the
old-flshiOned sort, we'll written and well worth
reading.
MANNERS MAKYTH MAN. BY the author Of
"IIow to be Happy though Married" New
| York: Charles Scribner's Sons. sl.25.
This is an exceedingly charming and fasci-
mating volume, fit companion for its prede-
cessor mentioned above. The style is most
graceful and the author shows a singular apti-
tude in illustration. 1t is bright, witty and
sensible, full of wholesome advice pleasantly
impaired, for husbands and wives.
NOTES
Messrs Macmillan & Co. announce for pub
lication q new edition of "Pickwick," which
ought TO be of considerable interest to the great
army Of students Of Charles Dickens. 1t has
been edited by the great nOvelist's eldest son,
and has been designed to mark the change in
the manners, customs and places described in
the book which the passage of 80 years has
brought about. An Introductory chapter will
contain the three addresses which were pub
lished with the original numbers, and are now
very scarce; and series of editorial notes,
together with very numerous illustrations, will
accompany the authors text.
We imagine that the Graphic NeICs, of Cincin-
natl, is making fine success, for it does not
seem probable that paper so excellent artisti-
cally and in a Etsrary way should fail to meet
with widespread approval. 1t deserves success
and no doubt has attained it.
The ResidWrdteHr is the name Of monthly
journal just started in New York, devoted tC
the interests and protection of the restaurant
business wherever il is carried on. 1t is
handsome 32-page magazine and is furnished a.
the low price of 81 per year.
The managers OF LjppincOtts Magazine have
paid Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland $500 for
narrative poem of 400 lines. which will appear
in the Janury number of their monthly. Il
is called The Dilemma Of the Nineteeath Century
and treats of the Woman Question from
satirical point of view. The meter is something
similar 10 that of Don Juan, and the poem il
said by those who have read it to be full o
snap and CO.
In the December Century, the authors of tht
Life of Lincoln state that Lincolns final releas
from the service Of the United States after tn,
Black Hawk campaign was signed by youni
Lieutenant of artillery, Robert Anderson, who
% years later, in one of the most awful crise
in our annals. was TO sustain TO Lincoln re
, lations of prodigious Importance, on seem
illuminated by the flash of the guns of the civi
war" The authors further state that the stor.
! to the effect that Lincoln was mustered int,
service by jefferson Davis is not confirmed b.
the strictest search in the records. They pub
lish in a foot note statement by Adjutant-Gen
eral Drum giving all the known facts in rela
{ tion to this story.
w. S. Lilly, one of the foremost philosophical
thinkers aud writers of England, has prepare'
for the December number of The Forum al
article which is likely TO command wide atten
tion, on The Present Outlook for Christian
ity." He holds thatthe belief of Christendon
stands absolutely intact an unaSsailable from
the point Of view Of science.