... SOUTH AFRICA. * AT the present moment the appearance of a work by a writer who for four years, from 1874 to 1878, held the appointment of Lieutenant-Governor .and Commander of the Forces in South Africa is at least opportune. Regarded purely as a book ...

... A CROSS AFRICA. * No-rHING could have come more opportunely than this narrative of Captain Cameron's walk across Africa, which occupied between three and four years to accomplish, and extended over 2,000 miles, as the crow flies, from the eastern to ...

... SOUTH AFRICA. * A t the present moment the appearance of a work by a writer who for four years, from 1874 to 1878, held the appointment of Lieutenant-Governor and Commander of the Forces in South Africa is at least opportune. Regaided purely as a book ...

... ACROSS AFRICA. * [SECOND NOTICE.] THE exploration of Africa, its objects and results, is a subject of increasing interest, wholly independent of any new impulse derived from the Brussels Conference or the efforts of the King of the Belgians to promote ...

... the terminus of the future rail- way to the Transvaal, and the possible Zanzibar of the southern moiety of Eastern Africa. Tropical Africa is barred against the direct action of England, but the better acclimatized Arabs and Portuguese ,are ready to -open ...

... SOUTH AFRICA. `$ No doubt it is the fighting in our South African colonies that has sug- gested to Captain Lucas the idea of publishing his reminiscences. For these are not very recent-carrying us back, indeed, to the days of the old Kaffir war under ...

... MISS FANNY ENSON IN SOUTH AFRICA. This lady has appeared so often before the Cape Town public, and in such a variety of characters, that those who are in the habit of frequenting the Theatre have had amnple opportunity of forming an estimate asto her ...

... * =- F 8 I THE ASHRATEE WAR. i I . ?? - I We must confess to somce surprise at the: curious dissimilarity between the three books before us. No doubt niost of our readers know the pretty little, story which -appeared some yeag asg6, in which a number ...

... - CZHYONICL OF THE WAR T-E last Act of the strange dram a, of which the fall or relief of Paris must be the denozeement, has now fairly begun. The vast but flexible network of the German arnies, save where Manteuffel presses Faidherbe back to the very ...

... policy of the home rulers, which characterized the Carthage of the Punic wars, made them- selves felt even thus early. Similarly, the transfer of the war by Agathocles to Africa, which but for the apathy of the native tribes might have led to the destruction ...

... Inner Southern Africa, Bat he was always fond of observing the habits of wild animals. He it was who first showed that there are many singing birds in Africa, though perhaps he shoald not have expressed his regret that the birds of Africa had never had ...

... ?? I E ?? ?? SOUTH AFRICA, by Anthony Trollope (2 vols.: Chapman and Hall).-More amusing books about South Africa than this might not be hard to find, albeit Mr. Trollope's pleasant style carries us lightly through many pages of politics and statistics ...