. Farthest north; or, The life and explorations of Lieutenant Lockwood, of the Greely Arctic Expedition. ed a sermon in which he alluded to the return ofthe Greely Expedition, and especially to LieutenantLockwood, who had been one of his said : Just a few days ago we were plungedinto sorrow by the news that among the living of thelatest Arctic expedition who had been rescued wasnot our young townsman, the son of one of the mosthonored members of this congregation ; the dispatchthat brought the glad intelligence that six were savedwas soon followed by the sad announcement t
. Farthest north; or, The life and explorations of Lieutenant Lockwood, of the Greely Arctic Expedition. ed a sermon in which he alluded to the return ofthe Greely Expedition, and especially to LieutenantLockwood, who had been one of his said : Just a few days ago we were plungedinto sorrow by the news that among the living of thelatest Arctic expedition who had been rescued wasnot our young townsman, the son of one of the mosthonored members of this congregation ; the dispatchthat brought the glad intelligence that six were savedwas soon followed by the sad announcement that he,vigorous as he was, had sunk under the rigors of theclimate, worn out by work and want. Has he leftno lesson for you and me, for all his fellow-men ?Think of his ceaseless endeavor, of the courage anddevotion with which he bore the brunt of the explo-ration, and wore away his own strength in seekingfood for his comrades and himself ! See him, witha single companion, penetrating nearer to the northpole than any other man had ever gone, however dar-ing ! When he had done his whole duty, more than ^n. D. APPLETON & PUBLICATIONS, BIOGRAPHY. A JOURNAL OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA. (Second Tart of The Greville Memoirs.) From 183? to 1852. By the late Charles Greville, Clerk of the Council. 2 vols. Large 12mo. Cloth, $ • Mr. Grevilles Diary is one of the most important contributions which haveever been made tc the political history of the middle of the nineteenth century. He is a graphic and powerful writer; and his usual habit of making the recordwhile the impression of the events was fresh upon his mind gives his sketchesof persons and places, and his accounts of o volumes will be read with as much interest f<their political value.—London Daily Sews. of persons and places, and his accounts of conversations. Lrreat vividness. Thevolumes will be read with as much interest for their sketches of social life as for RETROSPECT OF A LONG LIFE, FROM 1815 TO
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