a and Kotik" is illustrated with forty-two
striking photographic reproductions, the beauty and excellency of which
can hardly be too highly praised. To these are added thirty-four pen
sketches by Miss Chloe Frances Lesley, a student in zooelogy in Leland
Stanford Junior University. The illustrations which appear are adapted
to the text with perfect good taste. We also note "The Calendar of the
Mist-Islands." This is appended to the story proper, as is also the map
of the Mist-Island. In the calendar Dr. Jordan gives a diary of the
movements of the seals beginning January 1st and ending November 15th.
These notes convey a great amount of scientific information in the most
condensed and interesting form. It is evident that Dr. Jordan has
written under a strong sense of the significance of the scenes which he
wishes to portray. At the close, he says:

And when Kotik came back in the spring and climbed over the broken
ice-floes to take his place at Tolstoi, Atagh was sleeping yet. [It
was the sleep of death!]

And now the dreary days have come to the twin Mist-Islands. The
ships of the Pirate Kings swarm in the Icy Sea. To the Islands of
the Four Mountains they have found the way. The great Smoke-Island
has ceased to roar, because it cannot keep them back. The blood of
the silken-haired ones, thousand by thousand, stains the waves as
they rise and fall. The decks of the schooners are smeared with
their milk and their blood, while their little ones are left on the
rocks to wail and starve. The cries of the little ones go up day
and night from all the deserted homes, from Tolstoi and Zoltoi,
from Lukanin and Vostochni, and from the sister island of Staraya
Artil.

Meanwhile, Kotik and Unga, Polsi and Holostiak, stand in their
places, roaring and groaning, waiting for the silken-haired ones
that never come.

Their call comes across the green waves as I write. I turn my eyes
away from Tolstoi Head and put aside my pen. It is growing very
chill. The mist is rising from the Salt Lagoon, and there is no
brightness on the Zoltoi sands.

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