20 DECEMBER 1890, Page 24

Up North in a Whaler. By Edward A. Rand. (Hutchinson

and Co.)—This is a story of adventure in the Arctic Seas. We are told something in it of what has been endured and achieved by explorers in those regions, and we also have presented to us pictures of the life led by those explorers of whom we hear little or nothing,

• the adventurous men who follow the whaling trade. These scenes are grouped round the personality of a young hero, whose career shows, to use the author's words, " how character well grounded in Christian principles may be expected to be an abiding structure?'