New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-27

II a. s. Archdeac0n OF the
V.aon Illustrated SvO, pp. XIX, 4@V.
charles Scribners sons.
Th.re are several kinds Of travellers,
n, trsvel-writers. There is the severe
scisntist. who is simply an impersonal
vssebine for observing and recording
fsets There is the sentimentalIst, who
80 dawn little but the extravagant
s,nnt;ens which he has experienced and
:, A subjective that IL matters moth
a., chatter his tour is in the Tropics
3 - IN the Arctic. There is the spe-
! ci.list who looks so closely for Just
< - certain things which he went to
sse thet he omits all else. There are
isIso others; but, what is most to the
Drssent point, there is our good Or.
( q,e.k rho seems most successfully to
, go svoiAed the evils and to have eul-
tivated-or perhaps naturally to have
! been endowed with-the good qualities
~ al the rest. Such a traveller IS a
nan who regards all things with the
eonprebensive curiosity and searching
InteiIisence and also with the sym
pathy and the sentiment OF man VINO
answers to Terenee's description OIL one
who is interested in all that interests
humanity. and therefore is himself and
h his works interesting 70 all.
The adventurous Arehdeacon's field OF
trsvel is ore Of the most interesting
Of all the unexplored or partly eX-
vlared countries Of the world. Also,
Il & a region which particularly needs
inst such treatment as he has given 70
K. seeing how generally and how strik-
ingly il has been misunderstood. Some
Of us can remember when Stewards
Folly" was condemned as an uninhaol-
table and unimprovable Wilderness
We have lived TO see the penauiulh
swing TO the other extreme, ana tnat
same "Aretic Province" TO be tinted
rose color on the map and 70 be oe-
seribed as a compound OF ri Dofaoo
and the Garden Of Eden. some gay
M doubt. the pendulum will vlbrate
onfv within the limits Of the truthful
mean. golden or otherwise; and 1t Il
nrecisejv there that DR.. Sucks shrewd
vision perceives 1t.
M is not with the whole Of Alaska
that he deals, but with the interior,
esnesisllv along the Yukon, Tanana and
Kovpkuk rivers, and the Seward PENN
suls. For il must be remembered, as
be reminds US, that Alaska is not one
cottntrv. but many, with different ell
mates. resources, possibilities, needs,
problems-as different as though they
we're on separate continents and IN I'LL
fcrent zones. Alaska Is one-hIth as
large as the United States, and Juneau
he almost as remote from Nome as
New York is from New Orleans, while
from Portland Canal 20 Attu the range
Of longitude is greater than that IRON
Bar Harbor 10 the Golden Gate
over vast areas Of this country TINS
devoted missionary travelled IN winter.
Tbs title Of his book tells us the enor-
NOUS distance; more than three times
&c far as from New York to San Fran
cisco Primarily he was on the errand
and performing the duties OF a ChTls-
tian priest. But after that, what
wealth Of laymau's work ne dla Ior
the instruction and the delight OF Ihe
world! Nothing seems TO nave escaped
his eve, or to fail to be understood ana
appreeiatcd with ready wit. and win
ipevbaustible human sympathy. At one
time he is observing and describing the
-pFects Of intense cold and the symp-
toms and sensations Of freezing 10
death. "All Of us who have travelled
in cold weather know how uneasy ana
snprehensive a man becomes when the
Fpgars grow obstinately cold and he
reaiizes that he is not succeeding IN
Getting them warm again. IL is the pc
Ginning of death by freezing" Az the
nevt moment: eve were touched Dy
one blind woman who told OF a VISIT 10
a mission on the Yukon, and how she
learned 70 sing a hymn there. Her son
interpreted: She say every nlEhV s she
sing that hymn for speak 10 Sou' ouy
was encouraged to sing H. ana II tUi ny ;,
out TO be the alphabet set 20 Iune,
Now he pictures to us the Wohuets
Of the Aurora Borealis someWh". %
Ruskin might have done H. ana NV nv"
he relates his experiences WIN ToES
With a racv realism which Jack Lon
dom would appreciate; particularly an
incident with one which passer-by
ferveptlv pronounced to be the uos-
ronedesi dog / ever seen!' Az one
tiroe he is convincingly arguing the
nerd of stipendiary magistrates ana
constabuiary like the Mounted
Police of the Canadian Northwest ana
a. another he is telling Of his re-
reading of Boswell's Johnson by can
lie LIGHT in a dark howell when the
tsrneyature outside was So degrees
below zero. Now he describes the
havoc wrought upon smooth river
trail by n train of army mules o. ,n9
last Of which it was proclaimed lnat
cher name was Maud" and nov ne
tells Of the singing Of "Adeste Fl9eles
by a native congregation on the hogu-
kuk. H., tho
An earnest appeal is made Tor me
protection of the natives from the
determination with which they. arc
threatened through the illicit ilquo,
trade. There is scarcely an aboi isli'aI
tribe in the world more ainleD!e IN
disposition than the Alaskan lndlahs'
and there is probably no other ina, Is
as INDISPENSABLE TO the welfare OF ths
couOfrv as are they. On the sordla
oronrd of utility and profit, therefore
tbs natives should be protected, as
Vel, as upon the higher grounds OF
humanity and morals. There is an
otbar highly interesting chapter on
nhotograpbv in the Arctic regions;
snb;eet npon which the author is GER
tainly an authority, as the sPlepo.,u
illustrations Of the book dShohsti.e.e.
Never have we seen finer illustrations
Of Inc polar world. particularly the col
ored mates. which remind Us what 3
wealth Of color resides in the purest
white snow, under n proper analysis
by some Of natures spectroscores'
Altogether, u is one OF the most
fascinating and altogether satisfactory
books Of travel which we have seen
this wear. or indeed any year. II IS
one which the reader will be reluctant
10 Law down before he has finished IT,
and which he will be glad TO take up
again after he has once read u
through. IL is modest and unPre-
tentious in style: but the author mas