Stirring Adventures in African Travel. By Charles Bruce. (W. P.
Nimmo and Co., Edinburgh.)—Mr. Bruce tells again some familiar stories, which yet we are never tired of hearing, of African travellers. Livingstone has, very rightly, a largo share of space allotted to him. Chapters on Da Chaffin (it is Mr. Bruce's line to be descriptive rather than critical), Spoke, Sir S. Baker, and Commander Cameron, and, finally, on H. H. Stanley, follow. The remaining chapters are of a more discursive kind; hunting of various kinds, adventures among alave. hunters and cannibals, and even the story of the Algerine rovers and their suppress:don, and various miscellanies of African life are intro- duced—From the same author and publisher we get another volume of good reading which may he safely commended to young people, Graphic Scenes of African Story. Here we get the story of the settlement of South Africa, of the slave-trade as it was and as it is, of African miasione, and of our recent African wars. Mr. Bruce has taken pains to bring his narrative down to the present time, in- cluding the noble work and life of Bishop Hannington. But would it not have been as well to make some acknowledgment to the " Life " from which be has presumably obtained his materials?
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