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NANSEN IN THE FROZEN WORLD: Preceded by a Biography of the Great Explorer, and Copious Extracta from Nansen's "First Trip Across Greenland," also an Account by Eivind Astrup, of "A Jonrney Aoross Northern Greenland" with Lient. R. E Peary, U. S. N. , followed by a Brief History of tbe Priucipal "Earlier Polar Explorations," etn. Profuse]y Illnstrated. National Publishing Co., Chicago, 111. As indicated on the title page, the volume opens with an appreciative and intensely interesting biography of Dr. NaDsen, vTho, though less than thirtysix years of age, is universally recognized as by far the most successful Arctic Explorer the world bas ever seen. His ancestry for almost three hundred years is traoed. The boyhood of the now famous man is desoribed in the most fascinating manner. Then we see birn as a young man, forernost in all the sports reqniring great pbysical exertion. But tbe center of interest is in the great "Fram" Expedition. Here the reader is told how this wonderful ship was built; of its voyage to the North ; how it was frozen into the ice. Then carne the great Sledge Expedition of Nansen and Johansen, which oocupied flfteen months, and in which they reached a latitude of 86 degrees and 14 minutes - a point ruuch further North than had ever been reached by man. The return voyage of the "Fram" is also fully deBcribed. In all parts of the civilized world Dr. Nansen is the hero of the hour. His wonderful suocess bas brought hhn the farue it deservea. This volume not only tells what the masses of the people want to know about him, and what he has accomplished, but it also traces the history of the work in whioh he was so snccessful, from the earliest period of whioh there is either record or tradition down to the present hour, thus really forming a Cyclopedia of Arctic Exploration. This work contains over 500 pages, in one volume, aud bas more than 100 fine illustrations,Jis printed from olear and open type upon exoellent paper, and is bound in durable and attractive styles. See the publishers' advertisement in anothor column.