To Lake Tanganyika - in a Bath - Chair. By Annie B. More.
(Sampson Low and Co.)—The reader must not suppose that the " bath-chair " was actually drawn on wheels to Lake Tanganyika, a distance of something like a thousand miles from the coast. It was taken off its wheels, and carried by bearers. That was no slight matter. Indeed, to get to the lake at all was a difficult task ; it was only at the third attempt that Mrs. More succeeded, her first effort being defeated by a sunstroke, her second, a water journey by the Nyasaa route, by rumours of war. A simple, unaffected narrative of travel it is that Mrs. More gives, not new itself, but new in relation to its writer ; for when before did a European lady, with a child of three, accom- plish such a journey ? It is pleasant to think that her courage and patience were at last rewarded by her safe arrival at the lake. We are sorry to note the emphatic testimony which the author bears to the increasing destructiveness of the slave trade.
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