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Critical Notices Of The Literature Of The Last Three Months,
little work , full of incidents of peril and privation , interspersed here and there with short characteristic notices of the Tuski , a people inhabiting the extreme East and North of Asia , and bearing some resemblance to the Esquimaux and Greenlanders , although more civilized . Mr . Hooper , it appears , belonged to the " Herald" surveying-ship , and was ordered in 1849 to take the command of a boat-expedition to search the shores of North Americaandif practicableto lore the unknown land to the
, , , exp north of the continent . As was almost expected , difficulties of the kind that have hitherto baffled every Arctic voyager prevented the accomplishment of this undertaking ; but nevertheless , Mr . Hooper has very successfully managed to acquire a good deal of information about the Tuski , amongst whom he was forced to reside for some little time , the full benefit of which he gives us in the volume we are now noticing . They are a race higher in the scale of civilization than the Esquimaux , possessing amongst
them some signs of wealth , living in tents that have separate apartments in them , and having crude ideas on what may be called the rougher observances of life . Many of them carry on a trade ; some live by manufacturing sledges , cars , and warlike ancl hunting instruments ; and others tame and breed reindeer for sledge-drawing ; while the poorest own dogs . Moreover , curious as it may seem , Mr . Hooper gives us more than one instance of the drama being in an incipient state of being , highly amusing and interesting . Captain Inglefield's book * is also a brief , spirited account of a summer
voyage in the Arctic regions , undertaken voluntarily in a small screw steamer , provided by Lady Franklin . It appears that he penetrated through Smith's Sound , thus disabusing the notion that it was only a narrow strait , or a deep bay ; and , curiously enough , reached a climate very different from what he had hitherto experienced . The rocks were of a natural colour , nor was herbage wanting ; a most agreeable change , he assures us , from the eternal ice and snow by which he had
been surrounded . Unfortunately , a gale of wind prevented him from proceeding farther ; and thus both he and Lieutenant Hooper , while they have added something to our stores of knowledge , have been unable to discover the faintest traces of the missing hero and his gallant companions . From the ice-bound regions of the North , it is pleasant travelling to the sunny plains of smiling Spain , although , to speak the truth , we would rather not journey with MrCayley f until he has married the object of his
. affections , and therefore less likely to bore both his companions and his readers with his very dear " Mabel , " and his hopes and fears about her happiness , & c . & c . Nevertheless , Mr . Cayley is a clever writer , and a good hand at making the best of a dull story ; and he has , moreover , had the enterprise and the good sense to deviate from the beaten track of ordinary tourists , and to strike into the byways of travel . The conseisthat he has drawnfor the amusement of all those who have
quence , , any interest in matters Peninsular , a lively sketch of genuine Spanish fife , and many a pretty picture of the charming country through which he wended his way . Equally interesting , and still more attractive from the number and beauty of the Avood-cuts and lithographed drawings , which are plentifully interspersed throughout the work , is Lady Louisa Tenison ' s " Castile aud
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Critical Notices Of The Literature Of The Last Three Months,
little work , full of incidents of peril and privation , interspersed here and there with short characteristic notices of the Tuski , a people inhabiting the extreme East and North of Asia , and bearing some resemblance to the Esquimaux and Greenlanders , although more civilized . Mr . Hooper , it appears , belonged to the " Herald" surveying-ship , and was ordered in 1849 to take the command of a boat-expedition to search the shores of North Americaandif practicableto lore the unknown land to the
, , , exp north of the continent . As was almost expected , difficulties of the kind that have hitherto baffled every Arctic voyager prevented the accomplishment of this undertaking ; but nevertheless , Mr . Hooper has very successfully managed to acquire a good deal of information about the Tuski , amongst whom he was forced to reside for some little time , the full benefit of which he gives us in the volume we are now noticing . They are a race higher in the scale of civilization than the Esquimaux , possessing amongst
them some signs of wealth , living in tents that have separate apartments in them , and having crude ideas on what may be called the rougher observances of life . Many of them carry on a trade ; some live by manufacturing sledges , cars , and warlike ancl hunting instruments ; and others tame and breed reindeer for sledge-drawing ; while the poorest own dogs . Moreover , curious as it may seem , Mr . Hooper gives us more than one instance of the drama being in an incipient state of being , highly amusing and interesting . Captain Inglefield's book * is also a brief , spirited account of a summer
voyage in the Arctic regions , undertaken voluntarily in a small screw steamer , provided by Lady Franklin . It appears that he penetrated through Smith's Sound , thus disabusing the notion that it was only a narrow strait , or a deep bay ; and , curiously enough , reached a climate very different from what he had hitherto experienced . The rocks were of a natural colour , nor was herbage wanting ; a most agreeable change , he assures us , from the eternal ice and snow by which he had
been surrounded . Unfortunately , a gale of wind prevented him from proceeding farther ; and thus both he and Lieutenant Hooper , while they have added something to our stores of knowledge , have been unable to discover the faintest traces of the missing hero and his gallant companions . From the ice-bound regions of the North , it is pleasant travelling to the sunny plains of smiling Spain , although , to speak the truth , we would rather not journey with MrCayley f until he has married the object of his
. affections , and therefore less likely to bore both his companions and his readers with his very dear " Mabel , " and his hopes and fears about her happiness , & c . & c . Nevertheless , Mr . Cayley is a clever writer , and a good hand at making the best of a dull story ; and he has , moreover , had the enterprise and the good sense to deviate from the beaten track of ordinary tourists , and to strike into the byways of travel . The conseisthat he has drawnfor the amusement of all those who have
quence , , any interest in matters Peninsular , a lively sketch of genuine Spanish fife , and many a pretty picture of the charming country through which he wended his way . Equally interesting , and still more attractive from the number and beauty of the Avood-cuts and lithographed drawings , which are plentifully interspersed throughout the work , is Lady Louisa Tenison ' s " Castile aud