Six Years of Adventure in Congo - land. By E. J. Glave.
(Samp- son Low and Co.)—Although the Congo has, in a literary sense, been very well done, if not positively overdone, of late years, yet this handsome and not too large volume—portions of which have already appeared in magazines—by one of Mr. Stanley's pioneer officers, and certificated by the traveller himself as "a man who relishes a task for its bigness, and takes to it with a fierce joy," will be found both readable and valuable. Mr. Glave tells the story of his appointment to the management of a station on the Congo (ho was sent to Mr. Stanley in 1883 by the Chief of the Bureau of the International Association of Brussels), and of his labours and adventures. He does this in such a fashion as to render his book attractive and even appetising to boys as well as to adults. As an instance of his style and high spirits as well, may be giiren his fight—by way of lesson—with certain formidable mmibals that he came across. Mr. Glave'e volume is profusely illustrated, among the portraits given being one of the celebrated Tippu Tib, which will make many observers doubt whether, after all, man (in Africa) is anything better than the greater ape.
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