... is towards improvement. The compilers of this book suggest---anl with reason-that the frejucrncy of littlo wars, all vividly described by war correspondents of a popular press, and the prowth and consolidation of the volunteer system, have combined to ...

... Stanley was promptly interviewed by a representative of the South Australian Advertiser. After dealing with -the scramble in Africa, Mr. Stanley was led on to express his opinion on the coloured labour question in Australia, which is now agitating the minds ...

... railway officials needed iln the civilised administration of Tropical Africa. The Indian, liked by both black and white, will Fseve ass link between these two divergent races. More- over, Africa, in opening this vast field to the enterprise and overflow of the ...

... BOOKS. a s, o AFRicA* A Study in Colonial Adhninistra- a, tion and Development. By W. BASIL WOacs- in- FoaD, M.A. [Methuen and Co., London.]. of Anything, especially from undoubted sources, delating to our colonial interests in South Africa is pec iarly ...

... present, The Story-- of Africa and its Explorers. By Robert . rown, M.A. Vol. 1. The Guinea Traders,- the .Corsairs of Africa, the Tale of Tirabucto, the Niger. With two hundred original illustrations. For many readers Africa is a particularly fascinat- ...

... that.in the event of war Russia will help, but Russia, with shouldered musket, will be only a spectator. Frabce resents the occupation of Egypt cqqually with the loss of Alsace. In Madagascar, the East, Newfound- land, and Africa, French and British- ...

... the Russo-Turkish war.- The CAt and the Cake, by M. Bramston (National So'iety's Deposi. bory), is not altogether whimsieal, asmiiglht be sup. posed from the title. The narrative is intertwined with the history of the Thirty Years', War, and the cat in ...

... to seize upon the skirts of the nation whenever it begins to rouse to action for just defence or worthy enterprise. Wanton war and wilful aggression are to be avoided, bht no peace such as that of Manabem is needed yet awhile for Great Britain; and as ...

... Causes, Prevention, and Cuse, by M. L Rol btook, M.D. (Siitnpkin, Marshall, and Co') p p. X52. > Hunting Adventures in South Africa by R:. orda Cumming. Complete popular editon. Lodon,: Sinipkinand Marshall, Glasgow: Tbosc D. oion;) ?? 'ltsasute-house of ...

... the main interest of his life was the Spanish war, and those who desire to investigate the matter with care should read not only Mr. Stebbingl's brilliant monograph, but Colonel Parnell's history of the war of the succession. Mr. Stabbin~g thus sums up ...

... Macdofl50 Mission to the NigeraudjBenue Rivets , West Africa. By Captain A. F. MsioCxLEn-PkM-stj. Illustrated. [Philip and Song1 'roe student of unsophisticatedman,.as exemplified in the salhe races of Africa, will find much to interest him in this -volume ...

... revolutionary, 5poch of 1848, the War of Independence in Hungary, tre whole story of the Second Empire in France, the Crimean war, the establishment of the Italian King- don, the Franco-Gorman war, the Russo-Turkish war awc but some or the momentous tr ...