The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-28

1he "hite "OFIus Dy FamOus Living
 Expiorers-StatiEticaI Studies in ths
 New York Money Market, by Dr. J, P,
 Norton of YaIe-SIsetches of Church
 Life In Colonial connectiout-h New
 Book by w. R. II. Trovybridge of New
 Haven-Other Books.
 The White World. Life and Adven-
 lures Within the Arctic Circle, Por-
 trayed by Famous Living Explorers.
 Collected and Arranged for the Arctic
 Club by Rudolf Kersting. Octave, pp
 3S6. Lewis, Seribner & Co.,, New York
 Lewis, Scribner & Co.,, are entitled to
 the thanks of the reading public for the
 production of this highly interesting
 volume. The far frozen regions of the
 extreme north have ever possessed q
 strong and abiding mystery for man
 kind, which generation after generation
 seeks to solve, and intrepid explorers
 for ages in turn have heroically striven,
 but in vain, to reach the pole, the polar
 regions seeming to ever evade the most strenuous and cunningly planned efforts
 to pry into their remotest reCesses.
 Stories of Arctic and Antarctic eXplora-
 tions possess an unfailing and fascina-
 ting interest, and in the new volume
 are focused some of the most exciting
 and thrilling adventures of many fla
 nous explorers, told by the heroes
 themselves, together with other of their most interesting personal experiences in
 the frozen north As is said in an ex-
 tensive review of the book by the New York Herald: Many books upon Are
 tic exploration have been written. All
 have their interest, but "The White World is something new and unique in Polar literature. Twenty-two living eX-
 plorers of more or less renown give
 their experiences and observations in
 Arctic fields from very varied points of view These are human documents that embody the adventures, the humor,
 the pathos and the scientific observa- lions and deductions of number of eX- petitions ranging from that of Kane, the first American Arctic explorer, to the expeditions of Greedy and Peary and Dr. Cook"
 Under the title of "Farthest North with Greedy" Major David L. Brainard U s. A., tells how the then best rec ord' was beaten, for he, together with Lieutenant Lockwood attained a point further north than ever before had been reached at that time-a point that for quarter of a century was the furthest north, until Nansen, and later the 1 Duke of Abruzzi, achieved still higher latitudes. Major Bralnard's narrative | of the splendid march over the great ice wastes to the highest point that had | then ever been achieved by man is one | of exceeding interest.
 Two others of the handful of the | Greely survivors contribute articles to [ this interesting volume. Henry Bied- | erbck, who acted in the capacity of | hospital steward, tells of what was done to alleviate the sufferings of the | unfortunate ones and Francis Long | the hunter of the party, tells thrilling | tale of how he hunted and secured | polar bear when provisions were so | scanty that the securing of the bear | was a matter of life or death
 Dr. Kane's Arctic expedition is written of by the venerable Amos Bonsall the | oldest living Arctic explorer and now the only survivor of the famous Kane expedition. Mir. Bonsall, besides giving | his experiences with Kane, contrasts | the early expedition with their limited | outfits with the well equipped expedi- lions of to-day Among other | contributors to the volume are Dr. F, | "A. Cook, Professor William H. Brewer, Professor G. Frederick Wright, Hugh J. Lee, Dr. Robert Stein, H. l.. Bridg- man and Walter Wellman, whose con- tribution, "A Tragedy of the Far North" is a heart stirring story of the faithful friendship of two humble mem- bers, Norwegian sailors, of the We'll man expedition, friendship that was faithful unto death.
 Of all the books concerning Arctic life and adventure "The White World" makes the most direct and personal ap- peal to the interest of the reader Be- cause of the number of it's contributors and the variety of their experiences, ob- and points of view, the read CT gains a wider knowledge and a more accurate idea of life in the great white world" from the pages of this book than is possible from the observations of any single explorer. The book is profusely illustrated from f | plorers and from paintings and sketch f es by the Arctic artist, Albert Operti. f Altogether, the work is valuable con- tribution to Arctic literature and one that must make it's appeal to every low pr of adventure and to all interested in that greatest of all movements for ex- conquest of nature, the = expansion of human knowledge and of he domains of science" Says the New York Tribune in it's re- e view, after speaking of some of the ' ragic occurrences narrated: Some n nore agreeable stories are to be read in c Mrs. Florence Leonard Lees account of 6 fer own Arctic Honeymoon" with the n 9eary expedition of 1897, though she V lnd her husband spent the winter no A. urther north than Godhaven; in MT, W Rudolf Kersting's description of his h york as photographer of the Miranda n xpedition and in Dr. Tarleton H. = 3ean's journal of his adventures on the Alaskan and Iberian coasts in search of "a tIJraI history materials for the Ma l