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He selects choice bits of description of scenery, life, and

manners from his experiences of African travel, and will succeed, we should imagine, in suiting the taste of his readers. Certainly the young people nowa- days have a great deal of trouble taken for them, and are provided with plenty of good things, as well as with great masses of rubbish. This is one of the books which we should heartily recommend to them.