The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-12-09
NEW ROCKS
Brief Reviews or Irportnnt sna Tatsrsstine
New Pubiicnttous

| the viking" (ScribnersA romantio history
| based upon authentic records Of the third and
| fourth centuries That seems to describe the
| book very Justly. Tho archaeological stores
and tho historical records and the traditions
a. well. which served the author for his
viking Age" published several years ago
afford also the material used here; and wc
may add that Mr.. Du Chaillu sticks TO the
material very closely. lvnr" IL not q his
torical romance OF the sort that We are accus-
toned to get from the professional writer's Of
fiction. It has little OF the pliancy. little OF the
establishment OF the free imagination which
distinguish these. How War was reared. how
he adyenturcd uron the sea, his expeditions
and commercial VOYAGES. his thrashing OF the
Romans at BouloRne. his visit to Britain. his
victories in the athletic games, his duel for the
prize of n maiden his wooinG and marriage
NIL this is told not as the novelist would tell II,
but In the fashion OF one well Satisfied with
the plain records. und incapable OF taking lib.
critics with them. 1t matters not whether the
records in question are Of NEUROLOGICAL or an
archaeological com EXON II Ia i'm 10 ssible for
him to treat them In any other way than very
respectfully. Here. for instance. is a passage
from HIS account Of the interview Of the war.
rior. Helgi. with Bodvild. chieitainess Of a de-
tachment OF twenty-soven Valkyrias. after .
great battle under the Loga Mountains.
Hclgi" tays Mr.. Du Challlu. invited the
Nalkyrias to come to feast that night with
him his chiefs we're to be there But Bodvlld
said: think we have other work to do than to
drink with thee tonight; we have to carry the
elect to Nalhula and they disappeared" That
is point in the Morse mythology very simply
set forth. and here is bit from the llst OF we'd
ding presents made TO Rsndalin. the bride OF
Ivnr. which bears every stamp OF being PER-
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