If Africa is as interesting to the public as over
it was—which is, to say the least, very doubtful—then the most generally attractive If Africa is as interesting to the public as over it was—which is, to say the least, very doubtful—then the most generally attractive
article in Scribner is one by Mr. Stanley, describing more fully
than he has yet done the pigmies of the great African forest. It is an interesting and vivacious paper. Mr. Stanley demonstrates that the pigmies are by no means to be despised as enemies, as they never travel with all their senses asleep, as did Mr. Stanley's- own men. He admits that the railway which is being laid to unite the lower with the upper Congo will let light in upon the region inhabited by the pigmies ; but he thinks that, though they are averse to light and sunshine, some of them will survive the great change. Sir Edwin Arnold gives the second of his delightful papers on the Japanese people. Among the numerous excellent papers in this month's Scribner," The Rotheuburg Festival-Play" and " Modern Firo Apparatus " are worthy of special attention for different reasons. We cannot say much for the fiction, even although a portion of it is contributed by that genuine American humorist, Mr. Frank Stockton, under the title of " The Water- Devil."
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