A Hero of the Dark Continent. By W. Henry Rankine,
B.D. (Blackwood and Sons.)—W. Affieck Scott VMS a medical missionary of the Church of Scotland in Central Africa. He passed through Edinburgh University in a specially laborious way. He had to support himself, being helped by a "bursary," and to study at the same time. This, of course, is not uncommon among Scotch students. But he added mission work, and he played in the foot- ball team. Eight years were spent in studies that qualified him both in divinity and medicine. Shortly after completing his twenty-seventh year he sailed for Africa. There he worked, with an energy that must have exhausted any reserve of strength, for six years, and died after a sharp attack of fever, having struggled bravely and hopefully for life. "A Hero" is no exaggerated de- scription, for a more valiant and single-hearted soldier of the Cross never lived.
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