Victorian Notes

Alexander Nazaryan,"The Iceman Cometh," The Book, 23 June, reviews Anthony Brandt's The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage.

A. C. Grayling reviews Leo Damrosch's Tocqueville's Discovery of America for the Barnes & Noble Review, 18 June.

Christopher Clausen,"America's Changeable Civil War," Wilson Quarterly, Spring, and Clausen,"History is Not a Mirror," From the Editors, 21 May, look at changing perspectives on the war.

Martin Gardner,"Abstract adventuring," New Criterion, June, reviews Amir Alexander's Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics.

Jonathan Barnes,"Conan Doyle and the creeping man," TLS, 23 June, reviews Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Works.