Scouting for Stanley in East Africa. By Thomas Stevens. (Cassell
and Co.)—Mr. Stevens is the intrepid traveller who went round the world on a bicycle. The New York World sent him to Africa in search of such news as might satisfy the public curiosity about the proceedings of Mr. Stanley, who was then busy about finding, or relieving, or abducting Emin Pasha. He went to Zanzibar, and remained there for some weeks, waiting for news, considering the situation, and finally organising an expedition. Of this expedi- tion and its results, Mr. Stevens here gives us a narrative. Perhaps the most interesting part of it is the account of the writer's interview with Emin. Ervin seems to have given two reasons for his consenting to leave his Province of Equatorial Africa. One was, that the Khedive had given him orders to return, and the Khedive was his commanding officer; the other was, that he wished to give the advantages of a European education to his little daughter Farida. Emin seems to have thought meanly of the Egyptian Government. It supplied him, he says, with damaged stores : " They always sent me the very worst and cheapest stores they could get, and charged me the highest price."
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