Life of Sir John Hawley Glover. By Lady Glover. (Smith,
Elder, and Co. 14s.)—Sir J. H. Glover had an active life, typical in its variety of employment of the diversity of service which an Englishman is called upon to render to his country. Nearly twenty years in Western Africa were succeeded by five years in Newfoundland, a contrast which only the British Empire could furnish. Lady Glover has put together an interesting narrative of her husband's services, and she has had the advantage of having had the most important episode in his life told for her by Sir Richard Temple. Sir J. Glover did much for his country, but never anything more valuable than when he discovered, so to speak, the Hausas, a tribe which has been as useful to us, on a smaller scale, as the Sikhs and the Ghoorkas. The sketch of Captain Glover's operations in the Ashantee War is an admirable piece of military history. It would be difficult to exaggerate the help which he gave to the main advance by his skilfully planned movements. The Ashantee army was seriously weakened by the forces which were detached to watch him. The skill with which he managed his native allies, most of them of a quality different from that of the Muses, was very great.
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