ge take;
Why sit we here at ease?
Find us a vessel tight and snug,
Bound for the Northern Seas.
WILLIAM HOWITT.

BROOKS, NOAH.
The Story of Marco Polo.
Century. 1.50

The manner of the return of the Polos long after they had been
given up for dead, the subsequent adventures of Marco Polo, the
incredulity with which his book of travels was received, the
gradual and slow confirmation of the truth of his reports as
later explorations penetrated the mysterious Orient, and the fact
that he may be justly regarded as the founder of the geography of
Asia, have all combined to give to his narrative a certain
fascination, with which no other story of travel has been
invested.--_Preface._

As far as possible, Mr. Brooks has allowed the traveler to speak for
himself.

BULL, J.B. (p. 149)
Fridtjof Nansen.
Heath. .30

This highly interesting account of the great explorer, his crossing of
Greenland, and his Polar expedition, will enthrall young people as
Farthest North did their elders.

CARPENTER, F.G.
South America.
American Book. .60

In this good geographical reader the children are taken "upon a
personally conducted tour through the most characteristic parts of the
South American continent.... The book has the merit of being written
from original sources of information. It comprises the observations of
the author gathered in a trip of more than twenty-five thousand miles
along the routes herein described. Most of the descriptions were
written on the ground, and a very large number of the photographs were
made by the author especially for this book."

DU CHAILLU, P.B.
The Land of the Long Night.
Scribner. 2.00

Du Chaillu visited the Northern lands in winter, traveling overland to
Nordkyn, living among the Lapps, and later going in a fishing-boat off
the coast of Finmarken for cod.

FINNEMORE, JOHN.
France.
Illustrated by Nico Jungman and Others.
Macmillan. .75

Three chapters are devoted to the Loire country, and we are told (p. 150)
of Normandy and Brittany, as well as other parts of France, including
Paris. There is a sketch of boy and girl life which will make our young
people glad of t