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BOOK NOTICES. 



Norsk, Lapp and Finn. By Frank Vincent, 8vo pp. 263. G. P. Putnam's 

 Sons, New York, 1881. For sale by M. H. Dickinson, $1.50. 



Books of northern travel have been unusually numerous during the past 

 year, and Putnams have had the good fortune to put forth some of the best of 

 them. 



The volume in hand is the work of an experienced traveler who has visited all 

 parts of the world and some of whose books have been received with great favor. 

 It is attractively written and the amount of information given as the direct obser- 

 vations of the author is large and well handled. No portion of it is heavy or 

 dull ; on the contrary the reader will almost certainly take a kind of personal in- 

 terest in the adventures and investigations of the cheery writer, sympathizing 

 with him in his hardships and enjoying keenly his successes in overcoming them. 

 The work is illustrated with a frontispiece and a route-map, while the table of 

 contents and index are exceptionally full and complete. • 



Commencing at Paris, the reader is taken, via Hamburg, Kiel and Korsor, 

 to Copenhagen, or "Merchant's Haven," as the Danish word Kjobenhavn sig- 

 nifies when literally translated. To this city of commerce, religion, science, ed- 

 ucation and art are devoted ten pages, in which the reader is introduced to the 

 the Library and Zoological Museum, the Literary and Educational Societies, the 

 University, Thorwalsden's Museum, the Churches, etc. 



A whole chapter is devoted to an enthusiastic description of the Museum of 

 Northern Antiquities, the Ethnological Museum, the Chronological Collections 

 of the Kings of Denmark, Relics of early Civilization, etc. 



Progressing northwardly we are taken to Christiana, the picturesque fortress 

 of Kronberg, the Kattegat and Skager Rak, introduced to the accomplished King 

 of Norway, shown over the city and finally started on a long tour through Nor- 

 way with its fields, fosses and fiords, its ancient Norse cities of Bergen and Trond- 

 jheim, its natural tunnels, Snow Mountains, its three grand Glacier systems. 



We cross the Arctic circle, visit the once wonderful Maelstrom, inspect the 

 wholesale manufacture of cod-liver oil at Hammerfesh, canvass the wonderful 

 fishing banks of Loffodens, study the character and customs of the people, spend 

 a day at North Cape and witness the sun complete its full circle "by daylight." 



The hard work of the author's journey began at this point, where he left the 

 beaten track, crossed Norway eastwardly into Sweden and then journeyed south- 

 wardly to Stockholm, visiting the copper and iron mines, stopping over at Upsala 

 where Odin, Thor and Frey are buried and where the oldest monument of the 



