3 NOVEMBER 1894, Page 10

The Story of Africa and its Explorers. By Robert Brown.

Vol. (Cassell and Co.)—In this volume Dr. Brown carries on the interesting story of which we have spoken in previous notices with well-deserved praise. He takes it up with the year 1877, when Major Serpa Pinto, Dr. Bradshaw, Signor Mattenci, Oskar Lenz, Wiseman, and others, made journeys of exploration in Africa. The second and third chapters are devoted to the story of Emin • Pasha and the Relief Expedition, and with the events that followed. (The death of Emin became known after these were in print.) In the fourth chapter we are taken to the Sahara ; the fifth treats of African Missions. In later chapters of the volume we are transferred to South Africa ; and the work of the hunters assumes a prominent place. Still further on we are told about the " Scientific " and the "International Explorers." Dr. Brown is fully informed on his subject, and contrives to invest its details • with an unfailing interest. This is not an invariable experience with the readers of African travel and adventure.