Great African Travellers. By W. H. G. Kingston. (Routledge.)— Mr.
Kingston begins his series with Mango Park, and carries it down to Livingstone. Here, perhaps, we may object that Bruce is not in- cluded in the list. Bruce had the good-fortune to be early in the field, and acquired a reputation perhaps out of proportion to his achievements. Anyhow, his name as a traveller is better known than almost any of his successors, though his discovery of the fountains of the Abyssinian Nile is but little compared with what has been since accomplished. This is all we have to say against Mr. Kingston's book, and here we may be wrong, as very likely something of a more stirring kind would have had to be sacrificed to gain the necessary space. Besides Park, we read of Denham and Clapperton, the Landers, Dr. Barth, Spoke and Grant, and Dr. Livingstone, the melancholy end of whose travels forms a sad postscript to a sad record. Mr. Kingston has told his stories very well, and has made a most interesting volume.
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