Mr. Edward Arnold's List of New Books 3 



OLD AND ODD MEMORIES. 



By the Hon. LIONEL A. TOLLEMACHE, 



AUTHOR OF ' TALKS WITH MR. GLADSTONE,' ' BENJAMIN JOWETT,' ETC. 



Demy Svo. With Portraits. 125. 6d. net. 



One of the most brilliant men of his day, only prevented, 

 probably, by the physical infirmity of near-sightedness, from being 

 also one of the most prominent, gives us in this volume a collection 

 of remarkably interesting reminiscences, which extend over half a 

 century. They include, mostly in anecdotal form, life-like portraits 

 of the author's father, the first Baron Tollemache (another Coke of 

 Norfolk, but with more eccentricities), and of Dr. Vaughan of Harrow. 

 The author's years at Harrow, of which he records his memories, 

 were from 1850 to 1856, and those at Oxford from 1856 to 1860. 

 The book contains, besides, a number of characteristic stories, now for 

 the first time given to the public, of the Duke of Wellington, Lord 

 Houghton, Lord and Lady Mount Temple, Fitz-James Stephen, to 

 take but a few names at random from these fascinating pages 



IN SEARCH OF A POLAR 

 CONTINENT. 



By ALFRED H. HARRISON, F.R.G.S. 



Illustrated from Photographs taken by the Author in the Arctic Regions, 

 and a Map. Demy Svo. 125. 6d. net. 



The white North continues to exert its magnetism upon British 

 explorers. Mr. Harrison's object was to explore the unknown region 

 off the North American Coast of the Arctic Ocean, but he first 

 travelled 1,800 miles by waterway through Northern Canada, till he 

 arrived at the delta of the Mackenzie River. There he was frozen in 

 and delayed for three months. He then continued his journey to the 

 Arctic Ocean with dogs, but was obliged to abandon his supplies. 

 He hoped to obtain provisions at Herschel Island, but being disap- 

 pointed in this, he went into the mountains and spent two months 

 with the Eskimo, whose manners and customs he describes. He 

 next returned to Herschel Island and made a voyage to Banks Land 

 in a steam whaler. There, too, the failure of an expected tender to 

 arrive from San Francisco again defeated his hopes of procuring 

 supplies. Consequently he once more threw in his lot with the 

 Eskimo, between the Mackenzie Delta and Liverpool Bay, and spent 

 a year among them. 



Such are the adventures described in this interesting book, the last 

 chapter of which, explaining the author's plans for resuming his 

 enterprise, once more illustrates the fact that an Englishman never 

 knows when he is beaten. 



