14 MAY 1881, page 22

Songs Of Animal Life.*

IT was with true pleasure that we welcomed the new edition of Mary Howitt's Poems, published last Christmas by Messrs. Nelson and Sons. In 1871 they gave us our old favourites......

Major Serpa Pinto's African Book.* [first Notice.]

MAJOR PINTO had formed, in 1869, a part of the Portuguese column which, in the Lower Zambesi, sustained many conflicts with the natives of Massangano, and was at that time led......