The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 300, February — .Tune, 1905. (8s. 6d.)—We are
glad to see that " Sylvanns Urban" has made up Ws mind to return to the old form of his magazine. There is an abundance, possibly a superfluity, of periodicals which give us fiction, fancy, fashion, and the like, but the Gentle- man's Magazine, with its old-fashioned methods, has its place, and we hope that it will fill it with success. It is somewhat modernised, it is true, but it is the same substantially. There are some highly interesting articles in this volume, the "Adven- tures of the Mongovo George" being one of them. This was a Liverpool slaver, and the captain's ledger (1785-87) is a real curiosity. Here are the entries for October 23rd, 1786:—" Sold one woman, $280. Two men and one woman, 700; two men, 520; one boy, 350 (paper) ; one girl, 350 (paper) ; one woman, one girl, 480; a girl, 205." For the 6th of the same month there is the entry "Messrs. Bidon and Sauve bought fointy and eight slaves, viz., twelve Men, fifteen Boys, fourteen Women, and seven Girls, 155 each." A year after the Mongovo George' returned to Liver- pool a clergyman of that town published a sermon in which he showed "the conformity [of the slave trade] with the Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion," dedicating it to the Corporation.
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