New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-11
TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION
Civilization and the Wilderness.
Tourists and Adventures.


lance heads the list Of travel literature
for the coming season. OF these,
SCOTS Last Expedition" comes first.
II consists OF the journals Of Captain
Robert Falcon Scott, together with the
reports of the Journeys and the scien-
tific work undertaken during the expe-
dition. The work has been edited by
Leonard Huxley, with the assistance
OF the surviving members Of the expe-
dition and of Lady Scott. II will be
issued in two volumes, with many IL
Illustrations in colors and black and
white Dodd, Mead & Co. are its
American publishers.
A. Henry Savage-Landor's Across
South America" also IN two volumes
and abundantly illustrated. is an
nounced by Little. Brown e. Co. The
explorer gives in this work an account
Of his travels. at the head OF a small
band of natives, through vast unex-
turn trip through little frequented
parts OF Peru, Bolivia, Chill and the
Argentine. The voyage lasted eigh-
teen months and covered a distance Of
1850 miles. The Illustrations are the
authors own.
The third important book OF explora-
ton is Vilhjalmur Stefanson's My
Life with the Eskimos,' which the
Macmillan Company will issue with
abundance Of half-tone reproductions
Of photographs taken by the author.
Mr.. Stefanson has lived the Esqui-
maus' life for long periods; he knows
their language, and has come TO under
stand this primitive, matter of-fact
race. which has adapted itself to its
environment with all the thoroughness
that alone has enabled it TO survive.
An explorer Of less strenuous kind,
an explorer OF civilization. William
Dean Howells, will add TO the number
Of his observant. wise and witty books
OF travel Familiar Spanish Travels"
which the Messrs. Harper will publish.
Theodore Dreiser's narrative Of Euro
pean discovery a Traveller at Forty"
is announced by the Century Company.
The author OF Sister Carrie" as might
lave been expected. is more interested
in people than in places. Returning
the compliment. Europe will once more
tell US what it thinks Of us through
Mrs. f. Alec Tweedie. In her America
as l Saw II" (Macmillan).
From the Appletons is to come still
another book on South Amer.ca-"Two
on a Tour" by Anna Wentworth
Sears. The industrious and prosperous
Arnold Bennett will give us Paris
Nights and Other Impressions OF
Places and People" Doran). and F.
Hopkinson Smith writes of "Thack-
eray's London" and illustrates his own
text doubleday. Robert Hichens's
THE Near East" with colored pict-
ures by GuGrin and reproductions from
photographs. is a Century Company
book. Little, Brown & Co. give us
Athens, the Violet Crowned" by LII
ian Whiting. and Shakespeare and
Stratford." by Henry c. Shelley. The
Bishop OF California will describe
Some World-Circuit Saunterings"
paul Elder & Coz, from which firm
we are also TO have The Critic in the
Occident." And WI Ting -fang's
America Through Oriental Spec
tacles" is TO come from the F. A.
Stokes Company. Dana Estes & Co.
announce Two Quaint Republics: An
DORA and San Marino," by Virginia w.
Johnson; "Old Countries Discovered
Anew"-Holland. Germany and France
by Ernest Talbert; Sand Dunes and
Salt Marshes" a Labrador book, by
DR.. C. w. Townsend, and "Rambles in
Florence" by ]. f. Troutbeck, and
"Rambles in Holland" by Edwin and
Marion Sharpe Grew.
The Soul Of Paris" by Werner q.
Reed. with illustrations by Ernest
Peixotto, is TO come from the John
Lane Company and The Light Of
London" by Edmund d'Auvergne.
from Clode. The Roman Campagna,"
by Arnaldo Cervesato. bears the i'm
print Of Small. Maynard e. Co.. and
IAN Unknown People in an Unknown
Land" by w. B. Grub, an account Of
the Lengua Indians OF the Paraguayan
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