therefore, be regarded as the official, definitive Report of the expedition to Lady Franklin Bay. Leaving out the details of various physical observations, the net result of the expedition was the attainment by Lieut. Lockwood, in Lat. 83° 24' N., Long. 40° 46′ W., of the highest latitude ever yet reached. This gives a kind of title to distinction and to remembrance. For the conduct of the expedition, its incidents and the life led by those who belonged to it, as all these are here described, the less said the better. The rumors of strange and fearful things done by the men of the party may be passed over; but the record published by the commander calls for a word or two. He has survived to tell his own story of his relations with the rest, and the men who never returned from the wilderness have no one to speak for them. This is a misfortune for their memory, and, possibly, a greater misfortune for their commander. To name but two of them, Private Henry and Dr. Pavy, if they were alive, might have something to say for themselves, and Gen. Greely might find it proper to correct or to modify what he has printed concerning them. Henry seems to have been alone in the world, but Octave Pavy was not without friends. He is remembered by all those who knew him as not more remarkable for his great intelligence and his accomplishments than for his manliness and his honorable conduct. Gen. Greely's last word about the dead man is that he was a Bohemian. The word is easily written, but it is not always used in a definite sense. The Chief Signal Officer undoubtedly means to say that Pavy was not a martinet; and this may be admitted. One statement must be given in the author's own words: "The most unfortunate experience of the month for me was the detection, on December 3, of Dr. Pavy purloining the extra food of Sergeant Elison (Pavy's patient). The detection occurred when the party were asleep and in total darkness, and Dr. Pavy was ignorant that I knew of his action." Report, Vol. 1, p. 74. The human infirmities, exasperated by ill-health and privation and the incessant fret of temper under trying conditions, will account for much; but this story is not to be believed. The charitable explanation of it is that Gen. Greely, himself a sick man at the time, took the figments of a heated brain for facts. It is none the less clear that his papers ought to have been submitted to careful criticism and selection before it was thought proper to publish them in any form under the authority of the Government. The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1. Washington, 1888. The Washington Society has made an excellent beginning. This first publication is very well printed and illustrated, and the articles, six in number, are all full of interest. President Hubbard leads with an Introductory Address that covers a wide field, and may be called revolutionary in character. It gives a shock to old associations to meet Cyrene on the Nile, exactly under the Tropic, and the allusion a little farther on to the law of Matthews is a trifle dim, for there does not seem to be, at first sight, any direct connection between the fecund. ity of fish and a Justice of the Supreme Court; but all men do not see things in the same way. Prof. Davis's article on "Geographic Methods in Geologic Investigation" is illustrated, in a sense, by Mr. McGee's paper on the "Classification of Geographic Forms by Genesis," though the ideas of the latter suffer under the weight of his vocabulary. In one instance, at least, on p. 36, he has invented a new term: roches de moutonnées. Gen. Greely and Prof. Everett Hayden give the history of the great storm, March 11-14, 1888, with four colored charts, showing the meteorological conditions for each day at noon, Greenwich mean time, one Track Chart, and a Barometer Diagram. Mr. Herbert B. Ogden reviews the work of the Coast Survey from its creation in 1807, and Mr. Henry Gannett's account of the Survey and Map of Massachusetts closes the number. Rarely does a new Association show so much promise. Princeton College Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 1, January, 1889. Princeton, New Jersey. The Princeton College Bulletin is edited by the President and Members of the Faculty, and will deal editorially and through signed articles with the educational questions that affect the general interest. This first number gives, besides the President's address at the opening of the College in September, 1888, a number of notes on literary and scientific subjects. One of these, on p. 23, calls for more ample information. Prof. Frothingham, it is said, has found in the writings of James, Bishop of Edessa (c. 700 A. D.), a passage which evidently refers to the continent of America. It would be a pleasure to see this passage, if it is couched in language not unworthy of the Episcopal dignity. Eskimo of Hudson's Strait. By F. F. Payne. Toronto: 1889. Pamphlet, 8vo. Mr. Payne's pamphlet is an Extract from the Proceedings of the Canadian Institute, and gives the result of his observations during a residence of thirteen months among the Eskimo, and principally those at Cape Prince of Wales. Their way of life is regular. Two meals a day are taken, one upon rising in the morning, the other just before retiring, and Mr. Payne thinks they waste nothing. They steal with great adroitness, and like nothing better than to find a cache some one has made, when they all go in and eat up the food. Sometimes they return stolen articles, but always expect pay for their honesty and are indignant if it is refused. Cleanliness they hardly know, but they enjoy washing their faces with soap in the warmer weather as a kind of play. They smoke whenever they can, and prize tobacco very highly. They are of a merry disposition and are always ready to laugh. At the same time, their amusements are few ; throwing the harpoon at a mark, wrestling and running, and a game something like a tilting-match. In a snowhouse built for the purpose, with a central pillar, an ivory ring is suspended from the roof, and the men try to put their spears through it as they walk quickly round the pillar. During Mr. Payne's stay, foot-ball was introduced, the ball being a walrus-bladder covered with leather. Men and women took part in the game, the latter with their children on their backs. The girls have their dolls, made of sticks, and play at keepinghouse and giving dolls' parties. The Eskimo has generally but one wife and seems to be careful in providing for his family. A curious custom on the Strait is that if a married man is considered to be worthy of death for some offence, the one who accepts the office of executioner assumes the care of the criminal's wife and children. Ugaluk, one of Mr. Payne's men, had a second wife who had come to him in this way. The Eskimo believe in a heaven and a hell, the former the abode of those who tell the truth in this life, while the liars are sent to hell. Heaven is where the sky and earth meet, to the southward, a place where there is no snow and plenty to eat, without any work; but in hell it is very cold, with continual snow, and hard work. Ugaluk said that his people offered up prayers, but Mr. Payne never saw this done. The dead are buried along the coast, a favorite place being an island to which the foxes and wolves have no access. Monuments, sometimes ten feet high, are built over the graves, and offerings are made to the departed. Mr. Payne found two cannons on the shore near Cape Prince of Wales, and in them a number of bullets, shot and rubbish, put there, he was told, for the use of the spirits. An Exploration The Unknown Horn of Africa. from Berbera to the Leopard River. M.A., F.R.G.S. With Additions by J Godfrey Thrupp, M.R.C.S. Map and Illustrations. London, 1888. Mr. James's party, composed of 10 Europeans and |