The distance traveled in making this round trip to Alaska and back, over the course pursued by the author, is something over ten thousand miles, but when successfully consummated it is difficult to realize that such a long route has been passed over. Great are the modern facilities for travel, and great are the inducements. It is the only royal road to learning, the kindergarten of ripened intelligence, so to speak. We recall nothing of the fatigue or the inevitable mishaps of the journey. It is the charming experiences alone which become indelible. We behold again the many populous cities through which the route has taken us, and see once more in imagination the active villages, peculiar races of people, grazing herds, rushing cascades, sombre gorges, mysterious geysers, snowy mountain ranges, uncouth totem-poles, myriads of icebergs, and mammoth glaciers. To look back upon the experiences of the journey as a whole is like recalling a midsummer night’s dream, replete with delightful scenery and crowded with wonderful phenomena. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BOOKS OF TRAVEL. PUBLISHED BY MESSRS. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. BOSTON AND NEW YORK. Africa. The Far Interior. From the Cape of Good Hope to the Lake Regions of Central Africa. By Walter Montagu Kerr. With Map and Illustrations. 2 vols. 8vo, $9.00. My Winter on the Nile. By Charles Dudley Warner. New Edition, revised. Crown 8vo, $2.00. British America. Baddeck, and that Sort of Thing. By Charles Dudley Warney. 18mo, $1.00. Over the Border. By Miss E. B. Chase. Illustrated with Heliotype Engravings from drawings of Nova Scotia scenery. With Map. Small 4to, $1.50. A Yankee in Canada. By Henry D. Thoreau. 12mo, gilt top, $1.50. France. French and Italian Note-Books. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. With Etching and Vignette. _Riverside Edition._ Crown 8vo, gilt top, $2.00. _Little Classic Edition._ With vignette. 18mo, 2 vols. $2.00. The Historical Monuments of France. By James F. Hunnewell. With many full-page heliotypes. 8vo, $3.50. A Little Tour in France. By Henry James. 12mo, $1.50. Germany. Germany. By Madame de Staël. 12mo, $2.50; half calf, $3.75. Saxon Studies. By Julian Hawthorne. Essays on Life in Saxony. 12mo, $2.00. Great Britain. England Without and Within. By Richard Grant White. 12mo, $2.00. English Home Life. By Robert Laird Collier. 16mo, gilt top, $1.00. English Note-Books. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. _Little Classic Edition._ 18mo, 2 vols. $2.00. English Rambles, and other Fugitive Pieces in Prose and Verse. By William Winter. 16mo, $1.50. English Traits. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. _Riverside Edition._ 12mo, gilt top, $1.75; _Little Classic Edition._ 18mo, $1.25.