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Travels In British East Africa, Zanzibar, And Pemba. By W.

W. A. Fitzgerald. (Chapman and Hall. 28s.)—Mr. Fitzgerald here records, in a rather bulky volume, the results of two years' exploration of the British East African coast-line,......

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and Co.)—There is a gentle and ingenue simplicity about these essays that almost disarms criticism. But with the burden of literary overproduction now upon us, some under-......

Lines From Mit Log - Books. By Admiral The Right Hon. Sir

John Dalrymple Hay, Bart. (David Douglas, Edinburgh. 18s.)— The sixty years which have passed since Admiral Sir John Hay joined his first ship in 1834 have been fraught with......