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Two Years Among New Guinea Cannibals — 



By A, E. Pratt. Illustrated. Pp. 350. 6x9 



inches. Philadelphia : J. B, Lippincott Co. 



1906. 



This book is a fascinating narrative of a 

 naturalist's sojourn among the aborigines of 

 unexplored New Guinea, and reminds one very 

 much of some of Du Chaillu's stories of ex- 

 ploration. The illustrations are exceptionally 

 good. Some of the author's descriptions, how- 

 ever, have to be taken on faith ; for instance, 

 the story of the fishing net which is woven by 

 spiders. According to Mr Pratt, the natives, 

 when they want a fishing net, set up in the 

 forest a bamboo pole, bent into an oval form. 

 After a short while they return to find that the 

 spiders have covered it with a web which is so 

 tough that it makes a perfect fishing net._ The 

 book gives several illustrations of this fishing 

 net and shows the natives dipping in the 

 streams with them. It should be noted, how- 

 ever, that the illustrations are not from photo- 

 graphs. 



The Burton Holmes Lectures. By E. Burton 

 Plolmes. 10 Vols. Pp. 4.000. 10 x 7J4 inches. 

 Illustrated. New York : McClure, Phillips & 

 Co. 



Vol. I. Into Morocco ; Fez ; The Moorish Em- 

 pire. 



Vol. 2. Round about Paris ; Paris Exposition, 

 I and 2. 



Vol. 3. Olympian Games ; Grecian Journeys ; 

 The Wonders of Thessaly. 



Vol. 4. Cities of the Barbary Coast; Oases of 

 the Algerian Sahara ; Southern Spain. 



Vol. 5. Hawaiian Islands ; Edge of China ; 

 Manila. 



Vol. 6. Yellowstone National Park ; Grand 

 Canyon of Arizona; Moki Land. 



Vol. 7. Through Europe with a Camera; 

 Oberammergau ; Cycling through 

 Corsica. 



Vol. 8. Saint Petersburg; Moscow; The 

 Trans-Siberian Railway. 



Vol. 9. Down the Amur ; Peking, the For- 

 bidden City. 



Vol. 10. Seoul, Capital of Korea ; Japan, the 

 Country ; Japan, the Cities. 



Burton Holmes, traveler and lecturer, gives 

 much pleasure and a fund of interesting and 

 instructive information in his "Travelogues.'' a 

 work of ten volumes, which contains his prin- 

 cipal lectures. Three complete travelogues are 

 published in each volume. To a great many 

 who ha\-e not traveled extensively and to the 

 large number who will be glad to renew their 

 acquaintance with the out-of-the-way corners 

 of the world this compiling of Burton Holmes' 

 lectures will be most acceptable, for he demon- 

 strates in this travel library his ability to im- 

 part a vivid life-like description of what he 

 has seen in his 350,000 miles of travel fully as 

 well with the pen as he does in his talks from 

 the rostrum. 



Realizing from a knowledge born of wide 

 experience how much a picture conveys to the 

 mind when a description is attempted, the 

 author has left verj' little to be desired in this 

 connection, the volumes having a total of 4,000 

 half-tone illustrations and 30 full-page colored 

 plates, covering journeys through thirty differ- 

 ent cities and countries. There are a thousand 

 views of natural scenery — the wonderful moun- 

 tains, gorges, canyons, and rivers of the world; 

 about the same number of pictures of the great 

 art and architectural treasures, ancient and 

 modern : photographic reproductions of many 

 wonderful engineering feats, with pictures of 

 the most eminent men and women, rulers, pa- 

 triots, and artists, as well as the native types of 

 nearly e\-ery race, each taken by one who, it 

 seems, knew just what is needful to convey 

 the most information to the stay at-home sight- 

 seer. 



Mr Holmes as a writer has a decidcdl}' 

 graphic style and a genius for vivifying his 

 narrative. The reader seems to board the train 

 or caravan and travel along in his company, 

 roughing it a bit now and then as well as en- 

 joying the journey, finding and exploring curi- 

 ous out-of-the-way places and mingling with 

 motley throngs in the bazar of an ancient and 

 romantic Moorish city, or peradventure talking 

 with a group of bearded Cossacks while en 

 route over the Trans-Siberian Railway, as the 

 case may be. 



The travelogues are splendidly bound, printed 

 on very good paper, and are a most valuable 

 addition to any library. , J. O. L. 



