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Knox's The Boy Travellers in Mexico.-Allen's The Red Mountain of Alaska.-Three Vassar Girls in Russia and Turkey.-The Knockabout Club in Spain. -Abbott's Battle-fields of '61.-Coffin's Redeeming the Republic.-Boscowitz's Earthquakes.-Feathers, Furs, and Fins.-Sarah K. Bolton's Famous Men of Science.-Miscellaneous Juvenile Books. BOOKS OF THE MONTH. 212 214 218 999 226 THE VIKING AGE.* Du Chaillu's is the most ambitious work hitherto written in English concerning the socalled Viking Age of Scandinavia. It is the result of at least eight years' indefatigable work on the part of the author, and comes elegantly printed in two octavo volumes containing 1,153 pages, and not less than 1,366 illustrations. The work is illustrated from the antiquities discovered in Scandinavian mounds, cairns, and bogs, and from the old Norse sagas and eddas. In this great wealth of illustration may be noticed, as of special interest, the pottery of the stone age and the bronze vessels and weapons of a later period, the runic stones with their inscriptions, the illustrations of household decoration and of articles of personal adornment, and the curious picture-tracings on the rocks in the Scandinavian countries. In regard to the method of producing “The Viking Age" we will let the author speak for himself: By reading carefully every saga-and there are hundreds of them--dealing with the events of a man's life from his birth to his death, I was able to select the passages bearing on the various customs. When in one saga the bare fact of a birth, or a marriage, or a burial, or a feast, etc., was mentioned, in others full details of the ceremonies connected with them were found. After thus collecting my material, which was of the most superabundant character, I went over it and selected what seemed to me to be the best accounts of the various customs with which I deal in these volumes. I have not been content with the translations of other persons, but have in every case gone to the original documents and adopted my own rendering of them. "Some extracts from the Frankish chronicles are given in the Appendix, as showing the power of the Northmen, and bearing strong testimony to the truthfulness of the sagas. If I had not been afraid of being tedious, I could also have given extracts from Arabic, Russian, and other annals, to the same effect. "The testimony of archæology, as corroborating the sagas, forms one of the most important links in the chain of my argument; parchments and written records form but a portion of the material from which I have derived my account of the Viking Age.' During the last fifty years the history of the Northmen has been unearthed as it were like that of the Egyptians, Assyrians, and Romans--by the discovery of almost every kind of implement, weapon, and ornament produced by that accomplished race. The museums of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, England, France, Germany, and Russia, * THE VIKING AGE. The Early History, Manners, and Customs of the Ancestors of the English-speaking Nations. By Paul B. Du Chaillu. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. |