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Mr. Edward Arnold's List of New Books 
OLD AND ODD MEMORIES. 
By the Hon. LIONEL TOLLEMACHE, 
Author of ‘Talks with Mr. Gladstone,’ ‘Benjamin Jowett,’ etc. 
Demy 8 vo. With Portraits. 12s. 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 i860. 
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 8 vo. 12 s. 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. 
