A NOTEWORTHY BOOK . 
Our Arctic Province. 
ALASKA AND THE SEAL ISLANDS. 
By HENRY W. ELLIOTT. 
Illustrated by Drawings from Nature, by the Author, and Maps. 
One Volume, 8vo, $4.50. 
Mr. Elliott has for many years been connected with the Smithsonian 
Institution at Washington. A scientist and a naturalist, his book on 
Alaska, besides being of the utmost interest to the general reader, is of 
great value and importance as a contribution to scientific research. The 
author has spent six or seven years in studying Alaska and its people, 
travelling from the most southerly point of the province to the most 
northerly, along the coast, and among the islands extending 300 miles to 
the west. His treatment of the seal interests is particularly full, and of 
especial moment in view of the fact that the contract between the United 
States and the Alaska Seal Company, which supplies the world with seal¬ 
skins, will soon lapse, and the subject is certain to come up prominently in 
Government affairs. The natives and the Alaskan life Mr. Elliott writes 
of as one who knows his subject intimately. The illustrations, of which 
there are about a hundred, are engraved from the author’s original draw¬ 
ings and water-color paintings. 
There has scarcely been a book published on Arctic travel so vivid 
Philadelphia and picturesque in treatment, and so clear and definite in the infor- 
Record . mation which it furnishes, as this work by Mr. Elliott. . . . It is 
an effective and really wonderful record of travel and exploration. 
Other books may still be written about Alaska, but it is not easy to 
N. Y. Journal understand how any of them can exceed this one in interest, or in 
of Commerce. any way shake its authority as an accurate guide to “Our Arctic 
Province.” 
A book that is a work ; not a sportsman’s pastime, but a scientist’s 
Boston Literary treatise ; not a history, not a mere description, not a narrative of ad- 
World. venture ; but a carefully studied, thoroughly assimilated, intelligently 
written, attractively illustrated exposition of Alaska. 
Chicago 
Herald. 
New York 
Times. 
Boston 
Traveller . 
Nothing so complete and satisfactory has ever before appeared in 
print in this country as this absorbingly interesting and minutely 
accurate account of the great Alaskan Seal Islands, and the book must 
now be regarded as the standard authority on “ Our Arctic Province.” 
Few books on Alaska contain so much that has real value and posi¬ 
tive interest as this. It is an accumulation of very vital facts about 
that country set forth in an exact and yet attractive manner. 
A standard, comprehensive work, whose scientific accuracy is be¬ 
yond question, and whose graphic descriptions and vital interpreta¬ 
tions ot the resources of Alaska hold the reader with something of the 
charm of a romance. . . . The book is certainly one of the most 
valuable contributions to contemporary literature. 
