A most regrettable error crept into our:reviews last week. The
reviewer of Mr. O'Donovan's new edition of his book on Mery spoke iu feeling terms of the "premature decease" of the author, who is alive, and sending to the Daily News most picturesque letters from the Soudan. We hope no relative or friend has been harassed by an error which arose from some confusion between two correspondents, and which would not have escapal ourselves in revising proofs, but that we naturally thought the death had been mentioned in the book itself. We can only trust that the blunder may not prove a prophecy, and that this singularly bright and daring explorer has not shared in the defeat which we begin to fear has over- taken the army of Hicks Pasha. The absence of intelligence about that army is nearly inexplicable, and gives colour to the. rumours that its communications are cut off.
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