Grenfell of the Congo. By Shirley J. Dickins. (S.8.13. is.)—
This volume is one of the "Splendid Lives Series," in which, indeed, it rightfully takes a place. At the age of twenty-five Grenfell went out to the Cameroons,—the word is a corruption, we are told, of Cameries, the Portuguese for "prawns." A little more than three years afterwards he WU transferred to work on the Congo. There he served for the rest of his life—some twenty-eight years— he died on July 1st, 1906. It was a long time for that part of the world, and did not pass without many sorrows. But his greatest trouble, doubtless, was the change in the conduct of affairs. In early days Grenfell had been trusted by the Belgian rulers of the Free State, had served them officially, and received a decoration from the King. He lived long enough to see a great change for the worse, but not long enough to see the beginning of what we hope may be a better order. Grenfell, like Livingstone, was explorer as well as missionary. Altogether, his name stands high in England's "roll of honour."
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