This last would promise the largest measure of broad results in the shortest time, and least expense, and would probably be the most attractive to geographers.
The successful accomplishment of any one of these ventures would put the United States in the front rank of Antarctic achievements.
SUPPLEMENTARY READING--“Nearest the Pole” and “The North Pole,” Peary; “On the Polar Star,” Duke of the Abruzzi; “The Heart of the Antarctic,” Shackleton; “Farthest North,” Fridtjof Nansen; “The Uttermost South--the Undying Story of Captain Scott,” _Everybody’s Magazine_, July, August, September, and October, 1913.
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This week’s issue of The Mentor and that of last week are so distinguished in authority that we ask special attention to them. An interesting article on the Conquest of the Poles could have been prepared by any good writer. The Mentor article was written by the supreme authority on the subject, Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary. The article on “Famous American Sculptors,” published last week, was written by Mr. Lorado Taft, one of the best-known sculptors in America. When Mr. Taft writes about Barnard, French, Bartlett and the other American sculptors he is giving an account of his fellows in art. It is fortunate that so able and so interesting a critical writer on sculpture as Mr. Taft could be found among sculptors. He has given to us in The Mentor just what we want--information imparted in a simple, interesting way, and with authority.
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