The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-06-12
SOME NEW
BOOKS RECEIVED.
Lieutenant Peary's New Book, North
Over the Great Ice.
SOME ADMIRABLE VOLUMES
Miss Ellen Glasgow's New Novel THE
Phases ofan Inferior Planet'-Io
BE Published by Harper-Some
Literary Notes.

NORTHWARD OVER THE GREAT
ICE; BY Robert d. Peary, Ci wi i Ensi,-
neer Il. s. 4. Two volumes. FREDERICK
a stokes Company, New York.
For sale BY tho George ~ West COM
Tne' region OF which Lieut. Peary
writes In these entertaining volumes Is
one which has for the general reader the
potent fascination of the unknown ana
the mysterious. He Is able 10 pleseht
N with special clearne5s because or that
persistent exploration which has given
him worldwide fame, ana as matter
Of fact, he has given inc puDhc l@V
really delightful volumes. the people anu
things that ne saw when trayersnB thtL
world of ice he has brought before US
not with very eiie tive pen oniy, Ou'
through the medium OK adWlfable mus
tratiOn, the two books containing not
less than so pictures. Ihey were WII.Ien
to supply a complete authentic record OF
Lieut. Pearys Arctic work. ana contain
"the cream" as he says IN his preface
OF all his Arctic material, literary ana
pictorial" The reader Will find not a line
Of padding. for the authors constant aim
has been condensation, and 10 cOnQense IN
two volumes the experiences or ms trtE-
els leaves as the prospective reader VIII
readily understand, no superhuous space
Lieut. Peary's Arctic work comprises:
A summer voyage and reconnais-
sance of the Greenland Island Ice, lseb;
2 4 thirteen months sOJOurn IN North
ern Greenland. including a twelve mum
bred mile sledge journey across the Ice
cap. and the determination or the lnsu-
larity OF Greenland, lSgl-2.
g. A twenty-five months stay IN NOrth
Greenland including a second twelve
hundred mile sledge Journey across the
ice cap, the completion OF the study OF
the Whale Sound natives, detail sur
vey of that region, and the discovery OF
the great Cape York meteortes, l6s5- %.
D. Summer voyages IN ls9d and 1875 IN
Guiding the securing OF the last and the
largest OF the great Cape York meteor
ites-the ninety ton mass.
The volumes contain description OF
the little tribe Of Smith Sound Eskimos,
the most northeTy human beings In the
world. Why Lieut. Peary has 10 90 d.
rectlv from fact 70 fact viii be especially
self-evident. after the outline.
Before taking up the expedition. he at
tempts 10 bring home 10 the reader
realistic conception Of that which has
been the scene OF action is actually Ike.
stretching southwark over the SWELL
ing bosom Of the erath." says he, Green
land is the pendant brooch in the gilt
tering necklace OF snow and ice which
circles the North Pole 1t Is an Arctic
Island continent, the most interesting OF
Arctic lands: a land OF startling con-
trasts n land Of midnight suns and noon
day nights: OF tropical skies and eternal
ice. Of mountains with sides still tinged
with the deep warm glow OF ancient vol
canlc fires. and SUBMITS hidden beneath
cakes OF everlasting snow. Its history
IS accented by events as strange as its
own midnight sunlight and far stretching
snow-feds. Nine hundred years ago
Erik. an Iceland outlaw. discovered the
country and named Il Greenland. be-
cause" he said. people would sooner be
induced TO go thither in case 10 had
good name" From the colony founded by
him. his son Lief and other restless splr-
its sailed forth TO the discovery or the
New World. Centuries after, from these
iceberg haunted seas went forth It Is
said. a cleaning pile OF walrus tusks.
tribute for the Crusades. Then hos
tile fleet descended upon the colonies.
and rayished away many OF the inhao-
itants. to replace those carried on by
the plague, or BLACK death. In Eu-
rope Finally. the last Of the shipmasters
who knew the route to Greenland were
assassinated by German merchants 10
whom they. refused TO sell their cargoes'
and Greenland I'm the fifteenth century
dropped out OF the world and was aoso-
lutely forgotten before the voyages OF
Columbus. A century or more later Davis
rediscovered the Land OF Desoladon'
but the colonists had disappeared ana
to-day. though the Danes occupy nearly
all the inhabitable land In Greehapu.
only scattered ruins OF houses anu
churches have been found. ana thess a<s