A Young Congo Missionary : Memorials of Sidney R. Webb,
M.D. By William Brock. (R. H. Allenson.)—S. R. Webb was one of the men who are marked out from early years by religions purpose. He had many interests, was something of an athlete and had tastes for natural history. He took the M.D. degree at Edinburgh, and went out with his wife to the town of Wathen on the Congo in 1892, and reaching that place in January, 1893, set to work as schoolmaster, doctor, &c. After a little more than two years' work he had to leave on account of his wife's health, took fever on the way, partly, it would seem, from over-exertion, under- gone to relieve two of the carriers. The party reached the coast and embarked. Two days afterwards (Good Friday, April 12th) he died. He had not long entered on his twenty-eighth year. This simple record of his life and work is full of interest.
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