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INTRODUCTION 
 
 The reader should bear in mind that few of those 
 who are in Mission Study classes will be able to find 
 time to read all these books. To do so would be to 
 devote a disproportionate amount of energy to the 
 study of one country, when the needs of every portion 
 of the mission field are pressing upon us. But many 
 members of classes in their private reading may find 
 that some one feature of the subject especially appeals 
 to them, and they may be willing and anxious to pur¬ 
 sue their study a little further by themselves. One 
 may be interested in the geography, another in the 
 natural resources, another in the political movements, 
 another in the native religions and still another in the 
 native languages of Africa. The following list is very 
 far from being exhaustive. The narratives of such 
 travellers as Mungo Park, Burkhardt, Burton, Speke, 
 Livingstone and Baker are excluded, because we know 
 more or can know more of Africa than their books can 
 tell us, and perhaps some of our readers may think 
 that Stanley’s books, too, should have been omitted. 
 There is much that is valuable and a little that is 
 worthless in the list, and an honest endeavor has been 
 made to distinguish between the two. 
 
 For a class of beginners, Daybreak on The Dark 
 Continent or Christus Liberator is useful for informa¬ 
 tion. These provide the skeleton to be built upon. 
 It may be that the part of Africa where the American 
 
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 INTRODUCTION 
 
 Church has its Missions has been selected as the sub¬ 
 ject for study, or some other part of the Continent, 
 the scene of the missions of the Church of England. 
 To make the work of finding just what such stu¬ 
 dents require as simple as possible, the books have 
 been grouped under the heads of the Special Missions 
 of the Anglican Church, although volumes about the 
 work of other missionary societies and accounts of 
 the country are included with the publications of the 
 Church—care being taken to specify the author and 
 the special scope of his work. For classes of children 
 the teacher must make her own selections. 
 
 For those who lack the time to peruse extended 
 works and treatises, yet desire to familiarize themselves 
 to some extent with the work of the Church in various 
 parts of Africa, there are pamphlets which give the 
 principal facts in the lives of Missionary Bishops, and 
 the chief events in the work of Mission stations. Some 
 of the Bishops whose lives have been abridged are 
 Bishop Crowther, Bishop Hannington, Bishop Mac¬ 
 kenzie, Bishop Steere, Bishop Smythies and Bishop 
 Gray. There are short accounts of Mashonaland, 
 Hausa Land, The Yoruba Mission, The Eastern Equato¬ 
 rial Africa Mission and The West African Missions, and 
 the Reminiscences of an Old Zulu Woman tells in a 
 pathetic manner the story of work in Zulu Land. 
 xMost of these are published at prices ranging from a 
 penny to a shilling, by the Church Missionary Society 
 or by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in 
 Foreign Parts. 
 
 Some books are not to be recommended. They are 
 so indicated in the reviews, and mention is only made 
 of them to show that they have been read and ex- 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 V 
 
 arnined, not overlooked. They are not recommended 
 for several reasons. 
 
 1. They may have been of value in their day, but 
 their day has passed. 
 
 2. They deal with trivial details. 
 
 3. They are written from a distinctly irreligious 
 standpoint. 
 
 Any one of these three objections renders them 
 utterly valueless to a mission study class. In some 
 cases their literary worth is considerable, but our classes 
 are studying Missions and not literature. It is hoped 
 that this Bibliography may be of some help to those 
 who have little opportunity to examine books before 
 purchasing them. 
 
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 A 
 
 Actual Africa, by Frank Vincent. See General. 
 
 African Wastes Reclaimed, by Robert Young. See South 
 A frica. 
 
 Aldridge, T. J., The Sherbro and Its Hinterland. See TFes/! 
 Africa. 
 
 Anderson-Morshead, History of the Universities’ Mission to 
 Central Africa. See East Central Africa. 
 
 Arnold, T. W., Preaching of Islam. See General. 
 
 Ash, R. P., Chronicles of Uganda, Two Kings of Uganda. See 
 Uganda. 
 
 A^tterbury, Anson P., Islam in Africa. See General. 
 
 B 
 
 Bechuana in South Africa, The. See South Africa. 
 
 Bell, Robert, A Miracle of African Missions. See West Africa. 
 Black Man’s Garden, Round the, by Zelie Colville. See Gen¬ 
 eral. 
 
 Blackie, Personal Life of Livingstone. See Central A frica. 
 Bindloss, Harold, In the Niger Country. See Western Africa. 
 
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 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 c 
 
 Calabar and its Mission. Rev. Hugh Goldie. See West Africa. 
 
 Caton, Dorothy", Every Day Life among the Head Hunters. 
 
 See West Africa. 
 
 CENTRAL AFRICA 
 
 Central Africa, On the Threshold of, by Francois Coillard. 
 Cloth, 12mo., pp. 663. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 
 1903. Price 7s. 6d. 
 
 The scene of the work of Monsieur Coillard and his wife 
 is the country of Lewanika, the African king who at¬ 
 tracted so much attention in England at the time of the 
 coronation of King Edw r ard VII, and we know no better 
 book on Barotseland, a vast territory little known as yet, 
 stretching northwest of the Victoria Falls, and in touch 
 with the Congo Free State on the north and the Germans 
 on the west. Troubled by both these kingdoms Lewanika 
 asked for the protection of England, and now reigns in 
 peace in his land. Monsieur and Madame Coillard be¬ 
 longed to the French Protestant Mission, which has done 
 so much work in Basutoland, and which was among the 
 very first to plant the cross in Barotseland. Madame 
 Coillard died at her post and is buried in that country. 
 Her husband is continuing his work among Lewanika’s 
 people. His book, which is a second edition, will interest 
 two classes of readers—those who are interested in South 
 Africa as a countrv, and those who are interested in it as 
 a Mission Field. There is a first rate map in the volume, 
 and several excellent photographs of natives to illustrate 
 race types. 
 
 Central Africa, Pioneering in, by Samuel P. Verner. 
 Cloth, 8vo., pp. 486. Richmond: Presbyterian Committee 
 of Publication, 1903. Price $2.00. 
 
 One would make no mistake in choosing this book for a 
 Mission Study Library. The author, a Southerner, was 
 led to devote himself to the mission field by reading the 
 life of Livingstone,and that great explorer’s dying words, 
 “May the blessing of Almighty God come down on all— 
 American, English or Turk, who will come to heal this 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
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 open sore of the world”, made a great impression upon 
 him. Up the Congo by steamer to Livingstone Falls, by 
 bearer and on foot to Stanley Pool, by steamer again up 
 the Congo to its Junction with the Kasai, up the Kasai 
 to the mouth of the Luebo, then on foot to the mission 
 station—a distance of ten thousand miles. Then the 
 usual life of a missionary—manual labor or oversight of 
 others, learning, teaching, preaching, then illness, the re¬ 
 turn and a book, the book being a most simple, unaffected 
 account of native conditions and his own experiences, 
 permeated with a spirit of great hopefulness regarding 
 the future of Central Africa. 
 
 Central Africa, Twenty Years in, by the Rev. H. Rowley. 
 Cloth, 16 mo. London: W. W. Gardner, 1881. Price 3s. 
 6d. 
 
 Mr. Rowley was one of the Church Missionary Society 
 workers in its early days, and his story, largely in diary 
 form, gives a graphic account of some of the many trials 
 and hardships which the devoted missionary in Africa 
 still is obliged to encounter. The narrative is of interest 
 in its depiction of bygone conditions, and should cause 
 all who are interested in Missions to “thank God and 
 take courage” for the undoubted advance. It describes 
 conditions which no longer exist, however, and on this 
 account has little value from the point of view of the 
 present day. 
 
 Congo Land, Civilization in, by H. R. Fox-Bourne. Cloth, 
 8vo., pp. 303. London: P. S. King & Co., 1903. Price 
 10s., 6d. 
 
 Such value as this book has is largely political. It is an 
 expose of the methods of some of the foreign powers in 
 the development of the resources of the Congo Free State. 
 A book of this description is worthless as soon as the condi¬ 
 tions depicted are at an end, and the newspapers since its 
 publication have contained so many indictments of the 
 Belgians, and so much in regard to the Belgian atrocities 
 in the Congo Free State, that its comparatively temperate 
 statements are likely to be quite overlooked. 
 
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 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 Dark Continent, Through the, by Henry M. Stanley. Half 
 leather,8vo., 2 vols.,pp. 522 and 480. New York: Harper & 
 Bros., 1878. Price $7.50. 
 
 Stanley’s first African trip is recorded in “How I hound 
 Livingstone.” When the news reached London, in 1874, 
 of Livingstone’s death, Mr. Stanley was sent to finish 
 his work and to discover if possible the sources of the 
 Nile. He landed at Zanzibar and after encountering 
 and surmounting many difficulties, discovered the source 
 of the Nile in Victoria Nyanza. This sounds like very 
 ancient history but there are chapters concerning the early 
 days of Uganda which are worth reading even now, when 
 the continent of Africa has been thrown open from east, 
 to west, and when generations of school boys know more 
 about its physical configuration than did Stanley himself. 
 The continent was traversed and the explorer returned 
 home by way of the Livingstone River and the Atlantic 
 Ocean. 
 
 Darkest Africa, In, by Henry M. Stanley. Half leather, 
 8vo., 2 vols., pp. 547 and 480. New York: Charles Scribner’s 
 Sons, 1890. Price $7.50. 
 
 The story of how Stanley found Emin Pasha is second in 
 interest only to the story of how he found Livingstone, 
 yet they give one a better idea of the dangers to be en¬ 
 countered by African explorers than they do of the op¬ 
 portunities of the Mission field. There is kindly allusion 
 to Mackay of Uganda, but nothing new concerning him. 
 When the book appeared there was much interest mani¬ 
 fested in the Dark Forest, and the strange little race of 
 Pygmies, but recent travellers have told us far more, and 
 Stanley’s books are beginning to have historic value, like 
 Burton’s, Speke’s, or Baker’s. 
 
 Dark Continent, Daybreak in the, by Wilson S. Naylor. 
 Cloth, 16mo., pp. 304. New York: The Young People’s 
 Missionary Movement, 1905. Price 60c. 
 
 One of the valuable recent manuals which is continually 
 needed for reference. The author, working under Bishop 
 Hartzell of the Methodist Mission, visited the main mis¬ 
 sionary stations from the east to the west coasts of 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 5 
 
 Africa, and writes with impartiality and sincerity of the 
 good work done in so widely scattered spots. The book 
 is prepared for mission study bands, and is admirably 
 fitted to give a comprehensive view. 
 
 Jungle Folk of Africa, The, by Robert H. Milligan. Cloth, 
 12mo., pp. 380. New York: Fleming FI. Revell Co., 1908. 
 There is a breeziness and dash about this book which is 
 attractive in its way, and there is much information re¬ 
 garding the people of whom he writes. But, though the 
 author is, presumably a missionary, he has so little to say 
 of his work that he might almost as well have been a 
 traveller or trader, with good moral instincts. There is a 
 coarseness of fibre manifested in the way he speaks of 
 these people, and so marked a deficiency in ideals that the 
 book is painful to one who remembers what Mackay, and 
 Iiannington, and the long roll of martyred missionaries 
 wrote concerning the greatness of their opportunity and 
 the preciousness of these heathen souls in the sight of God. 
 
 Livingstonia, Daybreak in, by James W. Jack, M. A. Cloth, 
 12mo.,pp. 356. New York: Fleming FI. Revell Co., 1900. 
 Price SI.50. 
 
 Livingstone reached South Africa on his first trip in 1840 
 and remained until 1856. When he returned home he 
 published his first book, Missionary Travels, which gave 
 the civilized world a new conception of the Dark Conti¬ 
 nent. He left for Africa again in 1858 and returned in 
 1864, when he published “The Zambesi and Its Tribu¬ 
 taries.” In 1866 he made his third and last and greatest 
 expedition, with the object of discovering into what bodies 
 of water the northern streams of Central Africa flowed. 
 It was reported that he was dead and more than three 
 years passed without any news of him. The New York 
 Herald sent Stanley in search, and Stanley found him in 
 the heart of Africa in 1871. He remained there in spite 
 of Stanley’s pleadings and died in a native hut in 1873. 
 On account of his self-sacrificing death, the whole matter 
 of a mission in Central Africa became alive again, and a 
 new mission was started at Lake Nyassa, called Living¬ 
 stonia in memory of the great traveller, under the direction 
 
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 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 of the Free Kirk of Scotland. Mr. Jack has written a 
 most interesting and absorbing account of the founding, 
 progress and present status of this wonderful missionary 
 enterprise. 
 
 Livingstone, David, by Palgrave. Office of the U. M. C. A., 
 9 Darmonth St., Westminster, S. W. 9d. 
 
 This, as its price shows, is simply a short sketch of the 
 life of the great missionary and explorer, and deals chiefly 
 in his relations to the work of the founding of the Uni¬ 
 versities’ Mission to Central Africa. It gives all the stu¬ 
 dent who is taking up the work of the Anglican Church in 
 Central Africa as part of a general course of a few lessons 
 on the entire continent needs to read about Livingstone. 
 If, however, he wishes to enter more fully into the per¬ 
 sonal life and work of the explorer he must turn to the 
 larger biographies. 
 
 Livingstone, David, by Thomas Hughes. Cloth, 16mo. 
 English Men of Letters Series, pp. 208. Price 75 cents. 
 London: Macmillan & Co., 1889. 
 
 The Personal Life of David Livingstone, by Blaikie, should 
 be read as an introduction to this, for there is only a short 
 chapter devoted to Livingstone’s life before he went to 
 Africa. After that, the narrative is very complete, and 
 is written with great sympathy and understanding. The 
 small size of the book, in these days of multiplication of 
 large and elaborate volumes, is a not inconsiderable point 
 in its favor. There is much use made of the letters and 
 Journals of Livingstone, wdiich adds greatly to the fresh¬ 
 ness and directness of the book. 
 
 Livingstone, The Personal Life of David, by W. Garden 
 Blaikie, D. D. Cloth, 12mo., pp. 492. New York: Fleming 
 H. Revell Co., 1880. 
 
 We all are acquainted with the marvelous work which 
 Livingstone accomplished in opening to civilization the 
 interior of The Dark Continent. He was the source of 
 inspiration to many of those who have succeeded him, 
 Stanley among the first; but to understand what this 
 power to win, to influence, to compel, consisted in, it is 
 necessary to know what his heredity and environment 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 7 
 
 were. The son of a tailor, apprenticed to the spinning 
 trade, descended from a long line of Scottish Covenanters, 
 he had the same enduring, granitic qualities as the finest 
 flower of our Puritanism. Working all summer and sav¬ 
 ing his money for his winter expenses, he studied medicine 
 and science, as well as theology, to fit himself for his life 
 work. One rises from a perusal of these fascinating pages 
 understanding more fully the personality of the great 
 man by whom so mighty things were wrought. 
 
 Masai, The. Their Language and Folk-Lore, bv A. C. 
 Hollis. With an introduction by Sir Charles Eliot. Cloth, 
 Svo., pp. 356. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1905. Price 
 14s. 
 
 The Masai occupy a considerable part of the large plains 
 which extend from about one degree north of the Equator 
 to six degrees south of it, situated in both British and 
 German East Africa. Their language is one of peculiar 
 interest to scholars, and their stories, proverbs, riddles, 
 songs and accounts of their own customs and beliefs are 
 all very curious, and are given in the words of the relators 
 themselves. The author’s object in writing this book is to 
 preserve some record of the language before it is mixed 
 w r ith that of other tribes. It is considered advisable that 
 English civil servants resident in Africa should have a fair 
 working knowledge of some one of the leading African 
 languages, and this book, prepared by a writer of known 
 linguistic ability, puts before all interested a knowledge 
 of both the customs and language of the Masai. 
 
 Ngoni, Among the Wild, by W. A. Elmslie. Cloth, 16mo., 
 pp. 316. Edinburgh and London: Oliphant, Anderson & 
 Ferrier, 1899. 
 
 It would be hard to select a better volume for a Mission 
 Study Library than this series of chapters in the history 
 of the Livingstonia Mission in British Central Africa. 
 The author, a medical missionary, went to the shores of 
 Lake Nyassa and dwelt with the savages of the Ngoni 
 tribe, with only two companions, one a converted Kafir, 
 who acted as his interpreter, the other a Scotch agricul¬ 
 turist, who was only tolerated by the tribe because of his 
 
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 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 usefulness. Schools were forbidden, and even preach¬ 
 ing was discouraged, but by his care for the sick and dy¬ 
 ing, Dr. Elmslie won, first the toleration, then the respect 
 and at last the friendship of the tribe. Missionaries have 
 come and gone, death has been busy among them, but 
 surely nowhere in all missionary annals is there a more 
 modest, brave Christian. 
 
 South Central Africa, Reality versus Romance in, 
 From Benguela on the West to the Mouth of the 
 Zambesi, by J. Johnston. Half calf, 8v., pp. 353. New 
 York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1893. Price $4.00. 
 
 The author of this book tells a story somewhat at variance 
 with those of other travellers. He was successful in tak¬ 
 ing photographs, escaping quarrels and illnesses and in 
 getting along with the natives. His view of missionaries 
 is that they are not needed by the natives, but necessary 
 for the whites, and that without medical missionaries the 
 country would be impossible for civilized races. A rather 
 oblique testimony to their importance in anew community 
 See also titles under East Central, East and West Africa 
 and Uganda. 
 
 Yankee in Pygmy Land, A, by William Edgar Geil. Cloth, 
 Svo.,pp. 409. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1905. Price 
 $1.50. 
 
 The word Yankee is usually a term of reproach, and we 
 are forced to admit that if all Yankees were like the 
 author of this book the reproach would be well founded. 
 The book has interest and a certain degree of merit, but 
 Mr. Geil did much less than Stanley, and tells of it with 
 much more blowing of trumpets and booming of great 
 guns. There are many interesting photographs, the 
 most numerous and in Mr. Geil’s opinion the most inter¬ 
 esting being pictures of Mr. Geil, and of his portmanteau 
 marked in large letters, GEIL. There is a frontis¬ 
 piece of Mr. Geil, many pictures of Mr. Geil in places of 
 great danger, and toward the end a picture of Mr. Geil, 
 “the greatest living traveller.” We feel sorry for Mr. 
 Geil’s secretary who accompanied him on his trip, and 
 whose spirit must have waxed faint and sore. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 9 
 
 Christus Liberator. Ellen C. Parsons. See General. 
 
 Chronicles of Uganda. R. P. Ashe. See Uganda. 
 
 Church Missionary Society, History" of the, by Eugene 
 Stock. 3vols. pp. 2075, with maps and many portraits. 18s. 
 net. See General. 
 
 Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East. An¬ 
 nual Report. 2s. 
 
 Church Missionary Society. Story of the Year. Illustrated. 
 
 Is. 
 
 Church Missionary Gleaner. Monthly illustrated. Postpaid 
 Is. 6d. per annum. 
 
 Church Missionary Review. Postpaid 6s. per annum. 
 
 Church Missionary" Society". Mercy and Truth. Monthly 
 record of Medical Missions. Is. 6d. per annum. 
 
 Church Missionary Society. Round World, The. Monthly 
 record for children. Postpaid Is. per annum. 
 
 The large history is more of a reference work to use like an 
 encyclopa)dia than for general reading. It is invaluable 
 to the student who wishes a review of the story, told in 
 clear, concise, and readable form, of the Church of Eng¬ 
 land’s Missions in Egypt, Sierra Leone, West Central Africa, 
 East Africa and Uganda. Whoso wishes, however, to 
 keep up with the wonderful progress made by these 
 missions and to present to others a picture of the work 
 must be provided with either the full official report, or 
 its popular summary in the “Story of the Year”, and one 
 or more of the magazines—for general purposes, pref¬ 
 erably, “The Gleaner”; for scholarly reviews and critical 
 outlooks, “The Review.” 
 
 Coillard, Francois, On the Threshold of Central Africa. See 
 Central Africa. 
 
 Coming Continent, Actual Africa or the, by F. Vincent. See 
 General. 
 
 Congo Land, Civilization in. H. R. Fox-Bourne. See Central 
 Africa. 
 
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 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 D 
 
 Dark Continent, Through the. Henry Stanley. See Central 
 Africa. 
 
 Darkest Africa, In. Henry Stanley. See Central Africa. 
 
 Daybreak in the Dark Continent. Wilson L. Naylor. See 
 General. 
 
 Daybreak in Livingstonia. James W. Jack. See Central 
 Africa. 
 
 Dawson, E. C., Life of Bishop Hannington. See Central Africa. 
 
 Dawson, E. C., Last Journals of Bishop Hannington. See Cen¬ 
 tral Africa. 
 
 DuBois, Felix, Timbuctoo, the Mysterious. See Western Africa. 
 
 Dunning, H. W., To-day on the Nile. See Egypt and the Soudan. 
 
 DuPlessis, J., A Thousand Miles in Central Africa. See Central 
 Africa. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
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 E 
 
 EAST AND EAST CENTRAL AFRICA 
 
 Central Africa. Id monthly. 
 
 African Tidings, Ulus £d. monthly. 
 
 Office of the Universities’ Mission, 9 Dartmouth St , 
 Westminister, S. W. England. 
 
 These are the official magazines of the U. M. C. A. for 
 up-to-date news from this field. 
 
 East Africa, Letters from, 1895-1897, by Gertrude Ward. 
 Cloth, 16 mo.,pp. 240. London: Office of the Universities’ 
 Missions to Central Africa, 1901. 
 
 A more delightful little volume of letters from a young 
 lady to her friends at home has not often appeared in 
 print. Miss Ward is the author of The Life of Bishop 
 Steere, and at the time when these letters were written 
 she was a trained nurse, stationed at Magila in German 
 East Africa; one of the places in charge of the Univer¬ 
 sities’ Missions. She writes most entertainingly of her 
 hospital work; of the children in the schools; of the ex¬ 
 citement caused by the arrival of the new organ, and in a 
 very serious and earnest way, of the definitely religious 
 Avork carried on. All her readers will regret that illness 
 has caused her to return to England, for it is given to few 
 writers to present the missionary cause with more faith 
 and fervor. 
 
 East Africa in Picture (1900), Office of Universities’ Mis¬ 
 sion, 9 Dartmouth St., Wesminster S. W. 5s. 
 
 As its title shows, this is a picture-book for grown 
 people and children alike, but, although the descriptions 
 are very concise, it is a very valuable and inspiring ad¬ 
 dition to any study material on the Universities’ Mission 
 and its history, containing, as it does, maps, and fine 
 views of Zanzibar Cathedral, the Mission quarters, schools, 
 churches, etc., on the Island of Zanzibar and on the main¬ 
 land including the stations on Lake Nyassa. It is im¬ 
 possible with such views of the missionary “plant” before 
 us not to be impressed with what has been accomplished 
 in the heart of Africa, but to be adequately informed of 
 
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 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 1 he growth of the last few years and of the present aspect 
 of the field it is necessary to send to the Society’s Head¬ 
 quarters in Westminster for its current periodicals and 
 latest Report. 
 
 Mackenzie, Memoir of Bishop, by Harvey Goodwin, D. D., 
 Dean of Ely. Cloth, 12 mo., pp. 439. London: Bell & 
 Daldy, 1864. 
 
 Mackenzie, Bishop, Mission Heroes. Pamphlet 24 pp. 
 London: S. P. C. K. Northumberland Ave., W. C. 2d. 
 
 Now that we may read, in every number of the great 
 English missionary magazines, of the great work of the 
 Universities’ Mission, it seems strange and a little pitiful 
 to read the life of the very first Bishop of the Universi¬ 
 ties’ Mission—a failure as this world counts failure, but 
 really the first stone sunk and submerged in shifting 
 sand, utterly buried from sight, and yet the very stone 
 on which the visible structure depends for support. 
 After some years of parish work in England, and as 
 Archdeacon of Natal, Charles Frederick Mackenzie was 
 consecrated the first Bishop of the Mission “to the tribes 
 dwelling in the neighborhood of the Lake Nyassa and the 
 River Shire.” He depended very largely upon the ad¬ 
 vice of Dr. Livingstone, and the result was that his action 
 brought upon him the severest criticism, not only in other 
 parts of Africa, but in the Church at home. He did not 
 live long enough to realize this. It was upon Bishop 
 Tozer that the brunt of the mistakes of Bishop Mackenzie 
 fell, and it was really not until Bishop Steere’s day that 
 the Mission work ceased to feel the results of those early 
 mistakes. Mistakes alone they were. Bishop Mac¬ 
 kenzie’s character was too pure and lofty for any aspersion 
 to be cast upon it. He was stricken with fever and died 
 while on a trip to meet his sister, who was coming to help 
 him, and his Episcopate lasted only two years. The 
 small pamphlet does not by any means fill the place of 
 the memoir, but, where time is short or the larger life 
 cannot be bought, the smaller sketch will be valuable to 
 the Mission Class student. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 13 
 
 Maples, Bishop of Likoma, Lake Nyassa, The Life of 
 Chatjncey, by his Sister. Cloth, Crown <Svo., pp. 398. 
 London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1898. 
 
 It is a noble army of martyrs, who as Bishops, priests, 
 deacons, teachers and lay helpers in various capacities, 
 have laid down their lives as African missionaries. And 
 in the long array of biographies the Bishops of the tribes 
 around Lake Nyassa have almost without exception 
 the right to the name. Either in will or in deed—in most 
 cases both in will and deed, they have lain down their 
 lives for the brethren. Mackenzie,Tozer,Steere,Smythies, 
 Maples are among those who are gone. Let us hope that 
 others who follow them may enter into their labors, but 
 not into their distresses. 
 
 For nineteen years Chauncey Maples was a pioneer mis¬ 
 sionary in East Central Africa, being Archdeacon of 
 Likoma the last ten years. Bishop Smythies’ successor, 
 Bishop Hornby, arrived in Africa with shattered health, 
 and after six months service was invalided home. Arch¬ 
 deacon Maples was chosen to succeed him. He returned 
 to England and was consecrated at St. Paul’s Cathedral 
 in 1895 and twelve days after set sail for Africa. He 
 was drowned in Lake Nyassa on his way to his island 
 Diocese. 
 
 His simple life story, his beautiful letters, his sufferings, 
 privations, hardships, all help to a deeper realization of 
 the meaning of the call, “Go ye into all the world and 
 preach the gospel to every creature.” He was not only 
 called, nor only chosen, but he went, and he, too, laid 
 down his life for the brethren. 
 
 Maples, Journals and Papers of Bishop. Edited by Ellen 
 Maples. Cloth, crown 8vo., pp. 275. London: Longmans, 
 Green & Co., 1899. 
 
 The life of Bishop Maples was so deeply interesting that a 
 great desire was felt by all readers to know as much as 
 possible about so charming a personality and so conse¬ 
 crated a life. Bishop Maples, from his earliest childhood, 
 had the power of winning friends, and, even after his 
 death, his letters drew many hearts to him. His sister, 
 
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 therefore, in response to this desire, prepared for publica¬ 
 tion his Journal, accounts of journeys which he took to 
 places hitherto unvisited except by natives, articles which 
 he wrote to a local newspaper, and other occasional pa¬ 
 pers of general interest. After reading his life, with its 
 many references to these journeys and to the circum¬ 
 stances which led to the preparation of the papers, one 
 will turn to this volume feeling it a privilege indeed to 
 read more of what he has written. 
 
 Those who are interested in the progress and develop¬ 
 ment of the work at Likoma will be pleased at the frequent 
 and loving reference to Bishop Hine, who as Dr. 
 Hine joined the work while Bishop Maples was arch¬ 
 deacon. Mackenzie did his best, but was misled by 
 Livingstone. Tozer retrieved the mistakes. Steere made 
 the Swahili language a living possession for future mis¬ 
 sionaries, Smythies lengthened the cords and strengthened 
 the stakes. Only God knows what Chauncy Maples 
 would have done, had his life been spared. 
 
 Maples,” The Building of the “Chauncey, by A. E. M. 
 
 Anderson-Morshead. Cloth, 12mo., pp. 122. London: The 
 
 Universities' Mission, 1903. 
 
 When Chauncey Maples was drowned in Lake Nyassa a 
 faithful native said “God liked to take him on the Lake 
 Nyassa to consecrate the water of this lake.” So it is not 
 strange that the permanent memorial of this missionary 
 should have been a steamer to cruise up and down the 
 waters of the lake to carry passengers, mail and freight 
 from one village to another, to have on board a permanent 
 staff of teachers, with room for pupils who are being in¬ 
 structed to carry the gospel to their fellow countrymen, 
 and to serve as a general medium of intercommunication 
 between the different settlements. 
 
 The whole story of the building of the steamer in England, 
 its being packed in 3,500 different packages, its shipment 
 to the mouth of the Zambesi and its carriage by natives 
 to the shores of Lake Nyassa, where it was again put to¬ 
 gether, is one of absorbing interest. And the last chapter, 
 “The Chauncey Maples at Work”, shows what an impor- 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
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 tant factor in the lives of the missionaries at Likoma this 
 vessel has already become. 
 
 This story of the steamer, together with the “Life”, and 
 “Letters and Journals” form a trilogy from the perusal 
 of which no reader can arise without a thanksgiving 
 for the “good example of this, Thy servant.” 
 
 Sim , Life and Letters of Arthur Fraser—Pioneer Mission¬ 
 ary at Kota Kota in British Central Africa. Paper. 
 12mo., pp. 270. London: Office of the Universities’ Mission, 
 Price Is. 1896. 
 
 We have had many biographies of men who were chosen 
 to the office of a Bishop in the Church of GOD, but none 
 of them give a better glimpse of an heroic soul than this 
 biography of a priest who died after only eighteen months’ 
 service in Africa. The little memorial sketch is anony¬ 
 mous, but is written with great grace and literary facility 
 as well as with directness and point. Canon Body of 
 Durham Cathedral writes the Introduction. The boy¬ 
 hood days, the University lifi, the clerical work at home, 
 all reveal an unusually engaging personality, and the most 
 delightful letters from the mission station with their plans 
 and drawings give one a rather unusual sense of friend¬ 
 ship for the writer. His constitution, though robust, 
 could not stand the drain of repeated attacks of the African 
 fever, and the end came when he lacked four days of 
 completing his thirty-third year. 
 
 Smythies, The Life of Bishop, by Gertrude Ward. Edited 
 by Edward Francis Russell, M. A. Cloth, 12 mo., pp. 271. 
 London: Universities’ Missions to Central Africa, 1899. 
 
 Smythies, Bishop, Mission Heroes Sr. S. P. C. K. 2d. 
 
 A second edition of this book was called for, within three 
 months of the publication of the first, and other editions 
 have more recently appeared. It is a noteworthy book 
 in several ways. The subject of the memoir was a man 
 of great personal distinction and of truly saintly life, who 
 gave up his career in England when everything pointed 
 to a long, a happy and a successful ministry and who 
 undertook the heartbreaking and wearisome labor of a 
 missionary to the heathen tribes of Central Africa, He 
 
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 succeeded and entered into the labors of Bishop Steere, 
 but his whole-souled devotion to his work led him to plan 
 greater and greater ventures, each one entailing long 
 walks, lasting often for ten or twelve days, much exposure 
 to the weather and privations of all kinds. These were 
 the days of the undivided Diocese, in which now two 
 Bishops find their time more than full. 
 
 His episcopate lasted for ten years. He impaired his 
 health by his long hard journeys, his overwhelming zeal 
 for souls, and the grief at the death of so many of his mis¬ 
 sionary staff, owing to the unfavorable climatic condi¬ 
 tions. Before the end came the Diocese had been divided, 
 and he had the comfort of the support of a brother Bishop. 
 He was but fifty years old when he died. It was thought 
 that a sea voyage might check the low fever from which 
 he suffered, and with a nurse and a cousin to care for him 
 he was taken on board ship, but two days later he passed 
 away, and his body was committed to the deep. 
 
 Hardly ever has a Bishop’s life been written which is so in¬ 
 teresting, so picturesque, so thrilling as this. Something 
 is due to Miss Ward’s literary style, but most of all it is the 
 fascination of the loyalty to high ideals wdiich every one 
 feels even if he does not acknowledge. Bishop Smythies’ 
 ideal was conformity in doctrine, teaching and wmrship to 
 the Catholic tradition. No wonder that the foundations 
 he laid endure. No wonder that his memory is still so 
 fondly cherished, or that the story of his life has become 
 a classic of the Church of England. 
 
 It is a pity not to be able to gain the inspiration which 
 must come from the reading of these lives, but, if that is 
 not possible, the short sketch is of much value to the 
 student of the East Central Mission. 
 
 Steere, The Life of Bishop, by Robert M. Heanley. Cloth, 
 post 8vo. London: E. C. Bell, 1888. Price 8s. 6d. 
 
 Steere, Bishop, Mission Heroes Series. London: S. P. C. K., 
 Northumberland Ave., W. C. Pamphlet 24 pp. 2d. 
 
 One of the most stimulating and inspiring books on our 
 list is the Life of Bishop Steere, who succeeded Bishop 
 Tozer in 1874 in the Universities’ Mission at Zanzibar 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 17 
 
 The story of his preparation and call are full of interest, 
 and his early studies and later researches fitted him all 
 unconsciously for the great work of his life—the transla¬ 
 tion of the entire New Testament and several books of the 
 Old Testament into the Swahili language. Swahili is 
 the great trade language of the interior of Africa and is 
 knowm more or less all round the great sweep of the 
 Indian Ocean from Ceylon to Madagascar. It was from 
 these translations in the hands of an old pupil from whom 
 Bishop Steere did not expect much, that Stanley was able 
 to give Mtesa, King of Uganda, some idea of the Christian 
 religion, and this led to the commencement of the Church 
 Missionary Society’s Mission with its bright hopes and 
 sad experiences and ever extending operations. The 
 Bishop also translated the Book of Common Prayer, and 
 some of the best of our Church hymns, into the Swahili 
 language. Bishop Steere was not only a man of wonder¬ 
 ful linguistic gifts; he was, according to Bishop Words¬ 
 worth, eminent as a philosopher, a preacher, a teacher 
 and a man of affairs. He had great geniality and a 
 wonderful power of drawing workers about him and in¬ 
 spiring them. Even after so many years the story of his 
 life quickens enthusiasm and fortifies faith. 
 
 The small pamphlet is well written and is useful for those 
 who want the main facts and cannot read the book itself. 
 
 Tozer and His Sister, The Letters of Bishop. Edited 
 by Gertrude Ward. Cloth, 12 mo., pp 304. London: The 
 Universities’ Mission, 1902. 
 
 No one can read these letters without being forcibly re¬ 
 minded of Milton’s lines, “They also serve who only stand 
 and wait.” Neither can any person, even one utterly 
 indifferent to the whole subject of Missions, read them 
 without realizing that missionary zeal is a vital and a 
 consuming thing. Here was a man, gently born and 
 gently bred, living what some people think one of the 
 most enviable lives in the world, that of rector in a rural 
 English parish, giving it up in response to the call, and 
 taking the place of Bishop Mackenzie who was the first 
 Bishop to the tribes of Central Africa. 
 
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 Bishop Tozer had had no experience as Missionary priest. 
 He went to his post in 1863, and found it absolutely nec¬ 
 essary to inaugurate work on totally different lines from 
 those planned by his predecessor. He was not sure his 
 plans would be approved by the Home Office. Mails 
 were delayed and destroyed and for more than a year 
 he was compelled to defer action. His letters written 
 at this time are heart-breaking. Yet his plans were ap¬ 
 proved and he had the happiness of knowing it, and of 
 laying some permanent foundations before he was forced 
 to return home, invalided. And he lived, with shattered 
 health, for twenty-five years after his return. His sister 
 and most invaluable helper writes charming letters with 
 a humor that sweetens and lightens a most pathetic and 
 deeply interesting story of a Missionary. 
 
 Thousand Miles in the Heart of Africa, A, by J. Du Plessis. 
 Cloth, 16mo., pp. 169. Edinburgh and London: Oliphant, 
 Anderson & Ferrier, 1905. Price 3s. 6d. 
 
 The author of this book is the General Mission Secretary 
 of the Dutch Reformed Missionary Society, and it is an 
 account of the visit which he made to the various mis¬ 
 sion stations in East Central Africa, where that Society 
 is at work. From the Lake regions of Central Africa to 
 Southern Rhodesia is a chain of stations where satis¬ 
 factory progress is being made. The desire of these 
 missionaries is to extend their work westward, as there 
 are vast reaches of country where not a single Protestant 
 missionary is at work, and this book has been written to 
 extend knowledge and awaken missionary enthusiasm. 
 There are two maps and twenty-nine illustrations. 
 
 Universities’ Mission to Central Africa, 1859-1898. The 
 History of the, by A. E. M. Anderson-Morshead, with a 
 preface by Charlotte Mary Yonge. Cloth, 12 mo, pp. 452. 
 London: Office of the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa. 
 Price, 3s. 6d., 1905. 
 
 One is irresistibly reminded of the eleventh chapter of 
 Hebrews with its martyr roll of the early Church, when 
 one reads this most enthralling book. The missionaries 
 who followed so closely on Livingstone’s footsteps had 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
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 true apostolic fervour, and partook of the apostolic suf¬ 
 ferings. One can read at greater length, in the different 
 biographies which have been published, of Bishop Mack¬ 
 enzie’s efforts, and the mistakes of judgment that lessened 
 his influence and shortened his life, of Bishop Tozer’s 
 manly efforts to repair the mistakes, and his pathetic 
 lingering through so many years of enforced inactivity, of 
 Bishop Steere’s wide views and statesmanlike services, 
 of Bishop Smythies’ manifold labors as a good shepherd 
 who cared for his individual sheep; but, however familiar 
 we are with the lives and the work of these saintly men, 
 each falls into his own place, as part of the work planned 
 in the counsels of GOD, when we read the continuous 
 narrative of the Universities’ Mission for nearly forty 
 years. 
 
 It is one of the peculiarities of the work in this field that 
 no stipends have ever been paid to the workers. Board 
 and lodging, and in a few exceptional cases passage money 
 and some help toward an outfit, is all that is given. The 
 workers are, therefore, picked men, with the consecration 
 which includes both what they are and what they have, 
 and what they have done follows as a natural and nec¬ 
 essary consequence. In combating Mohammedanism, 
 in destroying the slave trade, in training workers, in 
 industrial work, in caring for the girls, in mothering the 
 little ones, their work is far reaching and blessed in its 
 results. See also Central Africa and Uganda. 
 
 EGYPT AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN 
 
 C. M. S. History. Vol. 1, 223, 227, 228, 350, 351, 263. Vol. 
 II, 140, 148. Yol. Ill, 123, 266, 514, 515, 522, 530, 746- 
 750; Medical Missions 661, 807 to year 1900. After that 
 date, “Story of the Year”, Missionary Gleaner, etc. See 
 Church Missionary Society. 
 
 Egypt, the Making of Modern. By Sir Auckland Colvin. 
 Cloth, Demy 8vo.,pp. 416. London: Seeley & Co., 1906. 
 Price 18s. 
 
 In the course of the year 1882 an outbreak of anarchy 
 in Egypt led to British occupation. It was not a diffi¬ 
 cult matter to carry positions which had been hastily 
 
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 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 fortified in the desert, but to create a modern Egypt, to 
 overcome the sustained hostility of the Turks, to combat 
 the ill will or apathy of the ruling classes in Egypt, to 
 loosen the knot of financial complication and to make 
 way against the indifference of all the foreign colonies 
 was a task which required years of patient labor. 
 
 This book tells the story of those laborious years. Its 
 author is the British Comptroller General in Egypt who 
 took part in all the financial reconstruction of the coun¬ 
 try. The progress and development, not only of Egypt 
 but of the Soudan as well, is clearly described in these 
 pages. Full and generous acknowledgment of the serv¬ 
 ices of Lord Cromer and his assistants is given, and the 
 book will remain for years to come of great value as one 
 of reference. 
 
 Nile, To-day on the. By H. W. Dunning, Ph. D. Cloth, 
 
 12 mo., pp. 270. New York: James Pott & Co., 1905. 
 
 Price $5.00 
 
 To the would-be or expectant traveller this volume will 
 be one of great value. It is written by one who is thor¬ 
 oughly familiar—not only with modern Egypt, the 
 proper order of sight-seeing, the best methods of travel, 
 the amount of time and money required and other im¬ 
 portant details, but of ancient Egypt as well—her his¬ 
 tory, her traditions and as far as a foreigner may be, her 
 very mysteries. The chapters on The Religion and Gods 
 of Egypt, and on The Egypt of To-day show plainly 
 how competent and careful a guide, philosopher and friend 
 he is. The book is primarily one of travel, but there is a 
 good deal of missionary interest as well. There are about 
 seven hundred and fifty Coptic Christians in Egypt, and 
 it is among those that our missionaries of varying de¬ 
 nominations work. There are nine million Mohamme¬ 
 dans, but work among these is out of the question. It is 
 possible, however, to lead those who believe in a low 
 form of Christianity to one that is purer and higher, and 
 the children are bright, intelligent and docile. Beirut 
 College, the institutions of the United Presbyterian and 
 other religious bodies are doing a good work. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 21 
 
 Ragged Life in Egypt. More About Ragged Life in 
 Egypt. By Mary L. Whately. Cloth 16 mo., pp., 215 and 
 212. London: Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, 1863 and 1864. 
 On her way to the Holy Land, Miss Whately, the daughter 
 of the Archbishop of Dublin, stopped for a while in Egypt 
 and became very much interested in work among the 
 Moslems. She was a member of the Society for Pro¬ 
 moting Female Education in the East, and her efforts 
 in this most praiseworthy undertaking she modestly re¬ 
 corded in a very inconspicuous little book. She returned 
 to England for a time and the work languished, because 
 there was no one to take her place. After the death of 
 her father she returned to Cairo and found that she had 
 not been forgotten nor had her work perished, and she 
 was able to build an enduring fabric on the foundations 
 she had previously laid. Her books are now out of print 
 and difficult to procure, but they are of intense and ab¬ 
 sorbing interest and are of such enduring value that they 
 already rank as classics. 
 
 River, Land and Sun. By Minna C. Collock. Cloth, square 
 12 mo., pp. 184. London: Church Missionary House. 
 
 With a good deal of poetic fancy and imagery the author 
 draws a parallel between the sands, the river and the 
 sunlight of Egypt, and the multitudes, the missionary 
 and the power of God. It is a record of the work the 
 Church Missionary Society is doing in Egypt, told by an 
 Englishwoman who visited the different missionary 
 stations and accompanied the missionaries in their daily 
 rounds. In this way we get a glimpse—more than a 
 glimpse—an extended survey of the work which is being 
 done, by the women missionaries of the C. M. S. more 
 especially, in the harems, in the schools for the rich and 
 the poor, on the desert and in the medical missions of 
 Egypt. The story is told with much spirit and humor, 
 yet with a deep sense of the spiritual needs of the 
 people. The concluding chapter, by the Rev. Rennie 
 Maclnness, tells something of the work among the men 
 and boys. The book is beautifully printed and illustrated 
 and is of unusual literary value. 
 
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 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 Sahara, Among the Women of the. By Madame Jean 
 Pommerol, translated by Mrs. Arthur Bell. Cloth, 12 mo., 
 pp. 343. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1900. Price 2s, 6d. 
 Madame Pommerol’s apparent object, in going from vil¬ 
 lage to village of the Sahara, and making friends with 
 the women whose language she appears to understand, 
 seems to be that of a thoroughly cynical French woman, 
 pleased to find how many traits these savage women 
 have in common with some of their more enlightened 
 sisters—curiosity, cunning, cruelty, envy and the like. 
 A thoroughly depraved book. 
 
 Soudan, The Egyptian, by J. Kelly Giffen, D. D. Cloth 
 16 mo., pp. 252. New York: Fleming H. Revell Co. Price 
 $1.00. 1905. 
 
 It would be difficult to speak in words of too cordial praise 
 of such a book as this. Dr. Giffen and his wife, with Dr. 
 and Mrs. McLaughlin, four tried and experienced mis¬ 
 sionaries working under the United Presbyterian Church 
 of North America, were sent from Egypt, where they 
 had been for seventeen years, to establish a mission on 
 the Soobat River, among the tribe called the Shulbas. 
 Ever since the tragic and pathetic death of General 
 Charles Gordon at Khartoum, the Egyptian Soudan has 
 occupied a large place in the thought and sympathy 
 of the Western world, and has awakened a deep and 
 increasing missionary interest. The sorrows and suffer¬ 
 ings which the slave trade visited upon the country, the 
 more recent desolation caused by a century and a half 
 of Mahdi rule, the strange and whole-hearted devotion of 
 the Soudanese races to religious though false ideals, the 
 martyrdom of Gordon, the realistic and hopeful proph¬ 
 ecy of Isaiah concerning this part of Africa, and finally 
 the present destitution of the land and the largeness 
 of the missionary opportunity—all these unite in their 
 appeal to the sympathy and missionary interest of Chris¬ 
 tendom. Whoever wishes for a book which will show 
 the missionary as he is to-day, with his devotion to duty, 
 his courage, cheerfulness, resourcefulness and consecra¬ 
 tion, will do well to read “The Egyptian Soudan.” As 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 23 
 
 a book for circulation among the readers of a Mission 
 Study class it would be hard to find its equal. 
 
 Eliot, Sir Charles. The East African Protectorate. See 
 Uganda. 
 
 Ellis, A. B. The Yoruba, the Ewe, and. The Tshi Speaking 
 Peoples of West Africa. See West Africa. 
 
 F 
 
 Fetichism in West Africa. Robt. Hammil Nassau. See 
 West Africa. 
 
 Fisher, Ruth H. On the Borders of Pygmy Land. See 
 Uganda. 
 
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 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
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 GENERAL 
 
 Actual Africa, or the Coming Continent. Frank Vincent. 
 
 Cloth, 8 vo., pp. 528. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1895. 
 Although this book is by no means recent, the picture of 
 Africa as a whole which it presents is very similar to a 
 book of the same general plan which might be published 
 to-day. The unalterableness of the Orient is one of its most 
 salient characteristics, and if a traveller were this year to 
 start from Gibraltar and sail across the straits to the coast 
 of Africa, and after visiting Tangiers, Morocco, Fez, the 
 Sahara and Tripoli, make his way into Egypt and from 
 there go to Mauritius and Madagascar, then returning to 
 the mainland go to Zanzibar, German East Africa, Cape 
 Colony, the Diamond District and Johannesburg, then, 
 after a detour by Madeira, visit the settlements on the 
 West Coast, the Congo Free State, the Niger Territory 
 and the Guinea Coast, making his way home by Las 
 Palmas for Marseilles, he would see the same types of 
 people, the same scenery, and in most of the places named 
 a good deal the same condition of affairs. For this rea¬ 
 son, it is by no means a supplanted book, and will give 
 the general reader a good and sufficient bird's-eye view 
 of the wonderful continent as a whole. Mr. Vincent’s 
 attitude is that of the optimistic cosmopolitan, who 
 thinks that the condition of the world is good—that it 
 is going to be even better, and that the resources and 
 fertility of a great continent are factors toward this most 
 excellent and desirable end. 
 
 Black Man's Garden, Around the, by Zelie Colville. 
 
 Cloth, 12 mo., pp. 341. London: Wm. Blackwood & Son. 
 
 1S93. Price 16s. 
 
 This is a book of travels written by a woman, and is a 
 good natured and kindly account of a cruise around the 
 island of Madagascar with excursions to the inland, and 
 visits to Zanzibar and the West Coast, but it contains 
 nothing of much interest or value to readers of other 
 books on the same general subject. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 25 
 
 Christianity from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition 
 of Paganism in the Roman Empire, The History of, by 
 Henry Hart Milman, D. D., Dean of St. Paul's. 3 vols. in 2. 
 Cloth, 8vo., pp. 485 and 507. New York: Thomas Y. 
 Crowell, 1881. 
 
 “Milman’s Latin Christianity” has for many years occu¬ 
 pied the pre-eminent place among Ecclesiastical Histo¬ 
 ries, and it is only necessary here to mention the present 
 edition as one of convenient size, good type and reason¬ 
 able price. Any reader who cares for the story of the 
 beginnings of Christianity will be more than repaid by 
 the perusal of the whole book. Certainly Mission Study 
 teachers who wish to create in their minds a picture of 
 what the great centers of Christianity, such as Rome, 
 Antioch and Alexandria, were like in Apostolic days, will 
 find that the chapter on Rome and Paganism in the first, 
 Christianity and Orientalism in the second, and The 
 Roman Empire under Christianity in the third volume, 
 are of very definite and special value. 
 
 Christus Liberator. By Ellen C. Parsons. Paper, 16 mo., 
 pp. 284. New York: The Macmillan Co. 1905. Price 50c. 
 Mrs. Parsons’ book is well known to hundreds, perhaps 
 thousands, of people who have used it in Mission Study 
 classes. It is the standard text-book among Congrega- 
 tionalists and has been used by many classes in other 
 religious bodies. It is thoroughly up-to-date, and packed 
 with information, and its tone is so courteous and gener¬ 
 ous, and its acknowledgment of the work of other mission¬ 
 aries than their own is so unqualified, that it is a model 
 of what such a book ought to be. A very useful table, 
 showing just where each missionary society of the world 
 is doing its work, and an excellent bibliography, arranged 
 by topics, add greatly to its value. 
 
 Colonization of Africa, The. By Sir Harry H. Johnston. 
 Cloth, 16 mo., pp. 315. Cambridge: The University Press. 
 1905. 
 
 There is great value in this book, but it would be idle to 
 suppose that the value lay on the surface. It is only to 
 be got by digging, and hard digging. It is one of a series, 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 26 
 
 intended for the use of persons anxious to understand 
 the nature of existing political conditions. The real 
 significance of political events cannot be grasped unless 
 the historical causes which have led to them are known, 
 and the different volumes of the series display the con¬ 
 tinuity of historical development in the different coun¬ 
 tries which are described. The book is not large, is closely 
 printed and has few maps. The subject is thus much 
 condensed. Volumes have been written on topics which 
 are here disposed of in a few lines. Neverthless, the 
 name of the author is a guarantee of the solid worth of 
 the book, and the last chapter, “Latest Developments’' 
 is worth reading by all who are making a study of Africa, 
 even if there is not time for the book as a whole. 
 
 Dawn on the Dark Continent. By James Stewart. Cloth, 
 16 mo., pp. 370. New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 
 1903. Price $2.00. 
 
 This is not merely one of the most recent books on the 
 missionary outlook in Africa, but one of the most au¬ 
 thoritative. The author, a Presbyterian missionary, 
 has for years been at work in the field, and has taken 
 great pains to obtain all available statistics regarding 
 the work which has been done by all bodies of Christians. 
 He speaks most hopefully of the present outlook and his 
 encouraging words should be a stimulus to all who are 
 interested in missions. 
 
 Islam in Africa. By Anson P. Atterbury. Cloth, 16 mo., 
 pp. 117. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1899. Price, 
 $1.25. 
 
 This most fascinating subject is treated in so luminous 
 and convincing a manner that one feels deep regret that 
 the book contains so few pages. It is a very clear pre¬ 
 sentation of the part the Mohammedan faith is taking 
 in the semi-civilization of the African tribes. We at 
 home would take issue with Mr. Atterbury in the state¬ 
 ment of his belief that Mohammedanism is better for the 
 African than Paganism, yet he qualifies this statement 
 by saying that he found it far more difficult to reach and 
 hold those who have been brought under its influence 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
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 than those who have no religion but Fetichism. It is an 
 admirable book for the teacher, and one of the most 
 interesting in the list. 
 
 Islam, The Preaching of. A History of the Propagation of 
 the Moslem Faith, by T. W. Arnold, B. A. Cloth, 8vo., pp. 
 346. Westminster: Archibold Constable & Co., 1896. 
 
 The writer of this book, who was professor of philosophy 
 at a Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College in India, has 
 written a most scholarly and exhaustive work which 
 treats the whole subject of Islam from the point of view of 
 a missionary religion. It is, in fine, a brief for the de¬ 
 fense. He tells the story of its spread among the Chris¬ 
 tian nations of Western Asia, in Africa, Spain, in Europe 
 under the Turks, in India, China and the Malay Archi¬ 
 pelago. One can realize from this what a terrible menace 
 it is to the Christian religion and how inadequate are our 
 missionary forces to cope with it. The history of the 
 birth of their missionary zeal, its inspiring forces, and the 
 modes of its activity are the subjects which occupy these 
 pages. For the earnest student it is, of course, a book of 
 great value, but we question the desirability of recom¬ 
 mending a book like this for the use of Mission Study 
 classes. 
 
 Mohammedan Missionary Problem, The, by the Rev. Henry 
 W. Jessup, D. D. Cloth, 16mo., pp. 138. Philadelphia: 
 Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1879. 
 
 The author, who was for twenty-five years missionary in 
 Syria, in this little volume treats of those features of 
 Islam which are favorable to the acceptance of Christian¬ 
 ity by its believers, and those which are unfavorable. 
 The problem which demands the attention of the Christian 
 Church is: How to give greater efficiency to missionary 
 agencies already employed in Mohammedan countries, 
 and how to bring new forces to bear upon Islam. The 
 book is sadly out of date but it contains much information 
 regarding past conditions in Mohammedan countries, 
 and is cheerful and optimistic in tone. 
 
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 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 Mohammedan World of To-Day, The, edited by S. M- 
 Tremer, F. R. G. S., E. M. Wherry, D. D., James L. Barton, 
 D. D., and Samuel Marinus. Cloth, 12mo., pp. 321. New 
 York: F. H. Re veil Co., 1906. 
 
 This is a collection of papers which were read at the first 
 Missionary Conference on behalf of the Mohammedan 
 world, which was held at Cairo, from April 4 to April 9, 
 1906. The writers are all men who have especial knowl¬ 
 edge of a very difficult and complicated subject, and who 
 have approached it with reverent care and understanding, 
 with the zeal of Christian missionaries, and the scientific 
 spirit of men of affairs. It will long remain one of the 
 most outspoken and authoritative collections of docu¬ 
 ments on the subject. 
 
 Notes on Africa for Missionary Students. Cloth, 16 mo., 
 pp. 71. London: Church Missionary Society. Price Is. 6d. 
 There is so much to be learned about Africa in its many 
 different aspects that it is easy to forget that our main 
 object is to learn about missionaries and the result of 
 their labors. The especial value of this book is that it 
 condenses the wisdom of many books and many writers. 
 It disengages the trivial and occasional from the vital 
 and spiritual and puts Africa, as a mission field, before 
 us. As a hand book for reference there is constant and 
 imperative need for it. 
 
 Price of Africa, The. By S. Earl Taylor. Cloth, 16 mo., 
 pp. 225. New York: Eaton & Mains, 1902. 
 
 This is one of the text-books on Africa of the Forward 
 Mission Studv Courses, and is authorized for use in the 
 Society of Christian Endeavor and the Epworth League. 
 It tells, very simply and directly, the price which has 
 thus far been paid for the redemption of Africa, and illus¬ 
 trates it by the life of four of her most noteworthy martyrs, 
 Livingstone, Mackay, Good and Cos. The two latter 
 names will be unfamiliar to many readers, but the story 
 of their lives and their heroic deaths, will stimulate and 
 inspire all. The purchase money has not yet been fully 
 paid in. Many, many more missionaries will succumb to 
 malaria, African fever and hardships of all sorts, but 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
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 the word of the Lord standeth sure, and we are definitely 
 promised that “in that day”—the day of the consumma¬ 
 tion of all things, the present shall be brought to the 
 Lord of hosts, of this people, terrible from its beginnings. 
 To work for Africa, to pray for Africa, is to pray for the 
 accomplishing the number of God’s elect, and the hasten¬ 
 ing of His kingdom. 
 
 Redemption of Africa, The. By the Rev. Perry Noble. 
 D. D. Cloth, 12 mo., pp. 776. 2 vols. New York: Flem¬ 
 
 ing H. Revell Co., 1899. Price $4.00. 
 
 Perhaps the sight of these two large and closely printed 
 volumes may appal some would-be-readers, and it must 
 be admitted that they are not books to finish in a week’s 
 time. They have the value of a good encyclopaedia, 
 however, for they form the most exhaustive work on 
 Africa which has yet been published. It is difficult, at 
 first, to select the portions which really bear upon the 
 problems of to-day. But after a subject has begun to 
 take shape in the reader’s mind it may be enlarged and 
 modified by recourse to Dr. Noble’s most thoughtful, 
 comprehensive and authoritative volumes. 
 
 Tropical Africa, by Ilenrv Drummond, LL. D. Cloth, 
 12mo., pp. 221. New 7 York: Scribner and Welford, 1888. 
 A more delightful book on Africa, though dealing only 
 incidentally with missions, it would be hard to find. Just 
 as some days are “beckoning days” when every leaf on 
 every tree says, “Come out,” so this book is a beckoning 
 book. It is more. It is a compelling book. One is con¬ 
 strained to fare forth with Henry Drummond, to follow 
 his leadership, to agree with his scientific theories, to be 
 filled with wonder at his tales and with fear at his prognos¬ 
 tications. The chapters on the White Ant, A Theory 
 and Mimicry have become famous. They recall Grant 
 Allen at his best , and were notable contributions in their 
 day to popular science. 
 
 Giffen J. Kelly. The Egyptian Soudan. See Egypt and the 
 
 Soudan. 
 
 Gilman, Bp. Hannington. 10 cts. C. M. P. C. (Pamphlet.) 
 
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 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 Gold Coast, Past and Present, The. George Macdonald. 
 See West Africa. 
 
 Goldie, Hugh. Calabar and its Mission. See West Africa. 
 Gollock, Mina C. River, Land and Sun. See Egypt and the 
 Soudan. 
 
 H 
 
 Halsey, A. W. Visit to the West African Missions. See 
 West A frica. 
 
 Hall, Martin T. Through My Spectacles in Uganda. See 
 Uganda. 
 
 Hannington, Life of James. E. C. Dawson. See Uganda. 
 
 Hannington, Last Journals of Bishop. E. C. Dawson. See 
 Uganda. 
 
 Harford, Batters by, C. Pilkington of Uganda. See Uganda. 
 
 Hausa Land. Chas. H. Robinson. See West Africa. 
 
 Hazzledene, George D. The White Man in Nigeria. See 
 West Africa. 
 
 Heanley, Robert M. Life of Bishop Steere. See Central 
 Africa. 
 
 Hinterland, The Sherbro and its. T. J. Aldridge. See 
 West Africa. 
 
 Hughes, Thomas. David Livingstone. See Central Africa 
 
 I 
 
 Islam in Africa, by Anson P. Atterbury. See General. 
 Islam, The Preaching of, by T. W. Arnold. See General. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 31 
 
 J 
 
 Jessup, H. W. Mohammedan Missionary Problem. See General. 
 Johnston, Sir Harry. Liberia. See West Africa. 
 
 Johnston, Sir Harry'. The Uganda Protectorate. See Uganda. 
 Johnston, J. Reality versus Romance in Central Africa. See 
 Central Africa. 
 
 K 
 
 Kaffraria, Eight Years in. By A. S. Gibson. See South 
 Africa. 
 
 Kemp, Demiss. Nine Years on the Gold Coast. See West Africa. 
 Kingsley, Mary. Travels in West Africa, West African Studies. 
 See West Africa. 
 
 Knox-Little. Sketches in South Africa. See South Africa. 
 
 L 
 
 Liberia, Sir Harry Johnston. See West Africa. 
 
 Livingstone, David. See Central Africa. 
 
 Luggard, Brig. General. Uganda and its People. See 
 Uganda. 
 
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 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 M 
 
 MacDonald, George. The Gold Coast past and present. See 
 West Africa. 
 
 Mackay of Uganda. Memoir by his sister. See Uganda. 
 
 MADAGASCAR 
 
 Menabe, Among the. By the Rev. George Herbert Smith, 
 M. A. London: S. R C. K, 1896. 
 
 This is an account of a not very successful attempt to 
 establish a mission among the wild people of Madagas¬ 
 car. The missionaries were overwhelmed with the novel 
 features of the work, and their zeal was not according 
 to knowledge. The book is not of any especial interest 
 or value, too full of detail, and overburdened with un¬ 
 pronounceable names. 
 
 Matebele, Among the. See South Africa. 
 
 Miracle of African Missions, by Robert Bell. See West Africa. 
 
 MOMBASA 
 
 C. M. S. History. Kraff at Mombasa, vol. I, 375, 459, 260. 
 RebmamTs prophecy vol. II, 433. Yol. Ill, 83, 85, 91-92; 
 429-732. Bishopric founded 731, 732, 766, 807. See also 
 Church Missionary Society and Uganda. 
 
 Mohammedan Missionary' Problem, by H. W. Jessup. See 
 General. 
 
 Mohammedan World To-Day. See General. 
 
 Mullins, J. D. The Wonderful Story of Uganda. See Uganda. 
 
 N 
 
 Nevinson, Henry W. A Modern Slavery. 
 
 Niger Country, In the. H. Bindloss. See West Africa. 
 Nigeria, The White Man in. D. Hazzledene. See West Africa. 
 Nile, To-Day on the. H. W. Dunning. See Egypt and the 
 Soudan. 
 
 Noble, F. P. The Redemption of Africa. See General. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 33 
 
 P 
 
 Palgrave, Life of Livingstone. See Central Africa. 
 
 Pierson, A. L. Seven Years in Sierra Leone. See West 
 Africa. 
 
 Pilkington of Uganda. C. Harford-Buttersby. See Uganda. 
 Portal, Sir Gerald H. The Mission to Uganda. See Uganda. 
 Price of Africa. By S. Earl Taylor. See General. 
 
 Pygmy Land, On the Borders of. R. H. Fisher. See Central 
 Africa. 
 
 R 
 
 Rawley, H. Twenty Years in Central Africa. See Central 
 Africa. 
 
 Redemption of Africa, The. Frederick P. Noble. See Gen¬ 
 eral. 
 
 River, Land and Sun. Mina C. Gollock. See Egypt. 
 Robinson, Charles Henry. Hansa Land. See West Africa. 
 
 S 
 
 SOUTH AFRICA 
 
 Callaway, Memoir of Bishop. By Benham, Macmillan & 
 Co. 6s. 
 
 Bishop Callaway was in charge of the Diocese of St. John’s 
 from 1873 to 1886 and his memoir gives a picture of 
 missions and South Africa during those years. 
 
 Capetown to Ladysmith, From. An unfinished record of 
 the South African War. By G. W. Steevens. Cloth, 16mo., 
 pp. 198. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. 
 
 One must approach this volume with reverence. Mr. 
 Steevens, one of the most brilliant newspaper writers 
 the world has ever seen, died while in South Africa, and 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 his letters written from there, together with a most 
 sympathetic sketch of his life, make up the present 
 modest volume. It is safe to say, that by reading this, 
 one gets a better idea of what life in a besieged town really 
 is than by reading any number of ordinary books of travel. 
 More than this, one gets a better idea of the values of 
 words—of the color that a literary artist can put on a 
 page—of the wonderful pictures which he can present 
 to the retina of the mind’s eye, than he can obtain from 
 almost any contemporary writer. 
 
 It was a brilliant mind which evoked these extraordin¬ 
 arily realistic impressions of army scenes, and the feeling 
 of personal loss must come to all who read. The book 
 is only a fragment, but so significant a fragment that, 
 taken with more diffuse, more ordered and more finished 
 writings on the same subject, it sends forth a fragrance 
 and casts a halo on the whole field of which it is a part. 
 The portrait of the author in frontispiece is a noteworthy 
 one. There is something prophetic in the face—almost 
 as if the author had a premonition of his sudden and 
 unlooked for end, just as recognition, honors, and all 
 the rewards of this life were being showered upon him. 
 
 Church in Greater Britain. The. Lecture VII—“In the 
 Province of South AfricaBeing the Donellan lectures 
 delivered before the University of Dublin. By the Ven. 
 Archdeacon Wynne. S. P. G. Tufton St Westminster, 
 1903. By post Is. 9d. 
 
 Gray, Life of Robert. Bishop of Cape Town and Metro¬ 
 politan of Africa. Edited by his son, the Rev. Charles 
 Gray, M. A. 2 vols. Cloth, 8 vo., pp. .536 and 655. With 
 portrait and map. London: Rivingtons. 1876. 
 
 Gray, Bishop. S. P. G. K. 1 penny. 
 
 Bishop Gray of Capetown, while a Missionary Bishop to 
 Africa, was spared many of those humilating and exhaust¬ 
 ing experiences with which we are made familiar in the 
 story of the lives of the missionary bishops in Central 
 Africa. But he was not on that account free from many 
 painful and sad experiences. Capetown was already a 
 place of many natural and acquired advantages when 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 35 
 
 he made it his place of residence, and the Church was well 
 established and prospering. Bishop Gray’s apostolic 
 zeal led him to establish not only Churches and schools 
 in the country round about, but to take measures to 
 create Christian settlements, where people wishing to 
 lead virtuous lives should be supported and comforted 
 by neighbors and associates who were like minded. He 
 was, first of all, an organizer, and this power of vision 
 and strength in execution, led to his greatest happiness 
 and successes and his greatest failures. His ideals were 
 so high and his certainty that he could carry out his 
 plans, if given a free hand, was so great, that he resented 
 any interference. The natural result was friction to some 
 extent with his clergy—to a very much greater extent with 
 the government of South Africa. The most distressing case 
 of Dr. Colenso, Bishop of Natal, drew to a focus and 
 entailed ceaseless correspondence, growing anxiety and 
 much censure from home. But he steadily maintained 
 his points and finally carried them. He established a 
 flourishing sisterhood and corresponded with Dr. Benson 
 regarding a brotherhood of Mission Priests, which finally 
 was established and has done marvelous work among 
 the Kafirs and Zulus. The end came while he was still 
 strong and capable of much service to the Church. He 
 died, as did Bishop Wilberforce, from injuries resulting 
 from the fall from a horse. 
 
 Kaffraria, Eight Years in. By Alan G. S. Gibson, M.A. 
 
 London: Wells Gardner Darton & Co., 1890. 
 
 An account of the work which God hath wrought in this 
 tribe. They are the only people in the British Protec¬ 
 torate who are not obliged to pay Hut Tax to England, 
 and they are exempt because their chiefs have shown 
 themselves capable of managing the affairs of their own 
 country without compelling the interference of the Ad¬ 
 ministration of the Protectorate, and have at the same 
 time maintained a friendly attitude toward the English, 
 allowing them to come and settle on their territory. 
 All this is the direct outcome of the work of the Living- 
 stonia Mission in matters material. Concerning spir- 
 
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 itual results, one has only to read the last ten pages of 
 the book describing a Communion Service at one of the 
 Mission stations, to realize the power of God in changing 
 the lives of these untutored savages. (The reader must 
 read the recent numbers of the Mission Field to find the 
 present condition of these Missions.) 
 
 Kafir Life, Sketches of. By Godfrey Callaway, Mission 
 Priest of St. Cuthbert. Cloth, 12 mo., pp. 154. Oxford 
 and London: A. R. Mowbray, Limited, 1905. Price 2s. 6d. 
 The work of St. Cuthbert’s Mission for Kafirs in South 
 Africa is under the direction of the Mission Priests of 
 St. John the Evangelist, and these sketches, written by 
 the priest in charge, gives an excellent idea of the work 
 which they are carrying on in South Africa. The de¬ 
 scription of the character of the natives, the training they 
 receive, and their social and political situation is a vivid 
 one, and is written with buoyancy and courage. The 
 necessities of the Mission are many and varied, and the 
 outside demands upon them are incessant. New build¬ 
 ings are being planned for and the proceeds from the 
 sale of the book are to be used to help defray the expense 
 of their erection. 
 
 Lesuto, In the. By Canon Widdecombe. S. P. C. K. 
 Northumberland Ave., W. C. London. 6s. Sold also at 
 S. P. G. Office, Tufton St., Westminster, S. W., London. 
 The S. P. G. recommend this book as one that gives a 
 picture of that part of the field. 
 
 Mashonaland, Memorials of, Mashonaland Mission, Jour¬ 
 nals of the. By Bishop Knight-Bruce. Arnold Pub. 10s. 
 fid. S. P. G. 2s. 
 
 Matebele, Among the. By Carnegie. Rel. Tract Society, 
 Paternoster Row r , London. 
 
 Valuable as giving the history of the early days of the 
 mission in Rhodesia. The record of Bishop Knight- 
 Bruce’s heroic pioneering journeys is given in the first 
 tw r o. Subsequent publications must be consulted to 
 bring the narrative up to date—especially the S. P. G. 
 annual reports and late numl^ers of the Mission Field. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 37 
 
 8. P. G. in South Africa, Here and There with the. By 
 post, Is. 3d. and fully illustrated. S. P. G. office, Tufton 
 St., Westminster, S. W., London. 
 
 This is a small and attractive little book giving a very 
 brief outline, well illustrated, of the great work of the 
 Venerable Society in South Africa, where it has spent 
 over £1,000,000 ($5,000,000), helped to establish and 
 endow seven Bishoprics, and has maintained nearly six 
 hundred missionaries. The earnest student of the his¬ 
 tory of the propagation of the Gospel will not be satisfied by 
 so sketchy an outline,but will turn to the less attractively 
 printed but invaluable pages of the large Digest “Two 
 Hundred Years of the S. P. G. (1701-1901)”. For the 
 History of the work in South Africa see pp. 268-385, and 
 the more recent articles in “The Mission Field” and The 
 East and West, and the S. P. G. Annual Report. See 
 Society for the. Propagation of the. Gospel in Foreign Parts, 
 etc. 
 
 South Africa, Impressions of. By James Bryce. Cloth, 
 8vo., pp. 495. New York: The Century Co., 1897. 
 
 Mr. Bryce’s temperate, painstaking, judicial character 
 leaves its impress on every work which comes from his 
 pen. Going to South Africa for “impressions,” he is 
 above all things anxious that they shall be sharp, clear 
 cut and distinct, and for this reason considers no pains 
 too great, no investigations too minute. He considers 
 South Africa as a whole, and then studies her in detail, 
 geographically, politically, ethnographically and other¬ 
 wise. He even devotes a chapter to missions, or rather, 
 to the not unimportant part which missionaries have 
 taken in developing the naturally good instincts and ca¬ 
 pacities of the tribesman. No one can really know South 
 Africa as a whole without knowing Mr. Bryce’s book, 
 which is as foremost among books of African travel as is 
 The Holy Roman Empire and The American Common¬ 
 wealth in their respective fields of investigation. Al¬ 
 though it was written ten years ago, and many interest¬ 
 ing developments in South Africa are of a more recent 
 date, the book is as valuable and forceful as ever. To 
 
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 the student who is contemplating the serious study of 
 one of the great coming countries of the world, if, indeed, 
 she has not already arrived, there is nothing to be com¬ 
 pared with it for giving an exhaustive survey of conditions 
 —a sane summary of the political situation, and inci¬ 
 dentally, many glimpses of the social life of the people, 
 which he had unusual opportunities to see. 
 
 South Africa, Sketches and Studies in. By W. J. Knox 
 Little. Cloth, 8vo., pp. 328. London: Isbister & Co. 
 Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1899. Price $3.00. 
 
 In the fall of 1898 Canon Knox Little visited South Africa, 
 and was enchanted with the beauty and interested in 
 in the activities of a new and strange country. He was 
 welcomed in his double capacity of cleric and scholar by 
 all sorts and conditions of men, was an honored guest of 
 Cecil Rhodes and saw South Africa under the most favor¬ 
 able circumstances. His book is written with enthu¬ 
 siasm yet with judgment, and the criticisms are from the 
 point of view of the statesman. His statements regard¬ 
 ing the work of our missionaries are singularly discrim¬ 
 inating. He realizes the need of more men at the strate¬ 
 gic points, and his plea for them is strong and convincing. 
 
 Transvaal as a Mission Field, The. By Canon Farmer. 
 S. P. G. 2s. 6d. 
 
 Transvaal Flag, Natives under the. By Bovill, Simp- 
 kin, Marshall & Co. 
 
 What has been said of other sketches is true of these. 
 They are of value to those who wish to study the situation 
 some years back of the country and of the Missions of 
 the Church of England. The account of the rapid growth 
 and changes of recent days must be sought in the latest 
 S. P. G. magazines and reports. 
 
 White Man’s Africa. By Poultney Bigelow. Cloth, 12 
 mo., pp. 271. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 
 1898. 
 
 The difference between the point of view of a statesman 
 and that of a journalist is well illustrated by the perusal 
 of James Bryce’s Impressions of South Africa and the 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
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 present volume. Mr. Bigelow had a single eye to what 
 would make acceptable magazine articles, and treats 
 the same subject—Africa south of the Zanzibar—solely 
 with reference to that end. In view of his affiliations, 
 sentimental and financial, with Germany and the Ger¬ 
 mans, it is easy to see that the stolid, homespun burgher¬ 
 like virtues of the Boers would fill him with respect and 
 admiration. The book is well and copiously illustrated, 
 and is, as the prospectus of a magazine might well de¬ 
 clare, “replete with fact and fancy.” Mr. Bigelow, like 
 Mr. Bryce, saw his South Africa under favorable condi¬ 
 tions, though the conditions were diametrically opposed, 
 Mr. Bryce being a distinguished member of the ruling 
 race, and Mr. Bigelow representing a more or less dis¬ 
 creditable connection, from over seas but forcing his 
 way, partly by his own personality, partly by the aid of 
 powerful friends. The points of resemblance and of 
 difference might be still further indicated, but enough 
 has been said to show that while Mr. Bryce’s book is 
 immeasurably superior in breadth of view, Mr. Bigelow’s 
 book has still something to make it useful, especially for 
 the reader who has not time or taste for what is more 
 profound. 
 
 Wastes Reclaimed, African. The Story of the Lovedale 
 
 Mission. By Robert Young. Cloth, 12 mo., pp. 268. 
 
 London: Dent & Co., 1902. 4s. 6d. 
 
 The Lovedale Mission in the northeast of Cape Colony 
 is well known to all students of missions. Nowhere else 
 in Africa—perhaps nowhere else in the world—has the 
 training of natives been carried out on so large and suc¬ 
 cessful a scale. The book before us contains an account 
 of the settlement during the last eighty years—that is, 
 since its formation by the Glasgow Missionary Society 
 in 1823. During this time between three and four thou¬ 
 sand have received their education in the Lovedale In¬ 
 stitutions. The schools contain representatives from 
 almost every tribe in South Africa within a radius of 
 500 miles. Among the trades taught to the boys are 
 carpentry, wagon-making, the work of blacksmiths and 
 
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 masons, brick-making, basket-making, poultry farming, 
 bee-keeping and shoe-making. Four other institutions 
 have been founded in South or Central Africa which have 
 been planned on the lines of Lovedale. The problem 
 which they try to solve is of vital importance in view of 
 the development of all missionary work in Africa. 
 
 In conclusion, we have a group of small books, none of 
 which are any longer of any particular value, simply 
 because it is ten years or more since they were prepared, 
 and in a country where events march at such speed as 
 they are doing in Africa, ten years is enough to make a 
 book hopelessly behind the times. 
 
 The Story of South Africa by W. Basil Worsfold (London: 
 Horace Marshall) stops with the Jameson Raid and 1897. 
 The Bechuana in South Africa by William Crisp, B. D. 
 (London: S. P. C. K. 1896) is a very simple narrative of 
 missionary life, suitable to read to little children. Home 
 Life in Africa, also written for children, bears the date 
 1868. 
 
 Soudan, The Egyptian. J. Kelly Giffen. See Egypt. 
 
 Stanley, Henry M. In Darkest Africa, Through the Dark 
 Continent. See Central Africa. 
 
 Stock, Eugene. History of the Church Missionary Society. 
 See Church Missionary Society. 
 
 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign 
 Parts, Two Hundred Years of the, 1701-1901. By C. F. 
 Pascoe. Based on a Digest of its Records. Nearly 1,500 pp., 
 8 vo. 7s. 6d. or in 2 vols. 8s. 6d. Illustrated. 
 
 S. P. G. Annual Report. 
 
 S. P. G. The Mission Field. The Official Organ of the S. P. G. 
 illustrated monthly per annum, by post 2s., bound volume 2s. 
 5d. 
 
 S. P. G. The King’s Messengers. The S. P. G. children’s 
 monthly magazine. Per annum by post 9d. 
 
 S. P. G. The East and The West. A Quarterly Review. 120 
 royal, 8 vo., pp. 4s. per annum prepaid. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OP AFRICA 
 
 41 
 
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 Taylor, S. E. Price of Africa. See General. 
 
 Through my Spectacles in Uganda. Martin J. Hall. See 
 Uganda. 
 
 Timbuctoo, The Mysterious. Felix Dubois. See West Africa. 
 Tucker, Bishop Eighteen Years in Uganda See Uganda 
 Two Kings of Uganda. R. P. Ashe. See Uganda. 
 
 U 
 
 UGANDA 
 
 Buganda at Home, The, by C. W. Hattersley. 227 pp., illus. 
 London: Religious Tract Society. Price 5s. 
 
 A popular and very readable account of the habits, cus¬ 
 toms, and recent history of the people of Uganda. The 
 book contains a hundred very good illustrations, and is 
 apparently issued below cost price. The author, who has 
 been a C. M. S. missionary in Uganda for ten years, writes 
 in a pleasant style, and his book deserves to obtain a wide 
 circulation. It is not primarily concerned with mission¬ 
 ary work, but a good deal of information is supplied 
 incidentally. The C. M. S. Mission to Uganda has been 
 from the first, as he tells us, an educational one. “Of 
 its 60,000 members the numbers who cannot read can be 
 counted only by the dozen.” One chapter is devoted to 
 an account of the ravages of the sleeping disease, and of 
 the efforts which have been made to find a remedy for it. 
 The book closes with an earnest appeal for further vol¬ 
 unteers to take part in the evangelization of the Buganda. 
 —The East and the West. 
 
 Church Missionary Society History. Vol. Ill pp. 36, 94- 
 112, 402-427,454,431-453, 531,664, 694,707,735-737, 731- 
 746, 788, 791, 800-818 to year 1900. For later information 
 see the following: 
 
 Church Missionary Society’s Annual Reports, “Story of 
 
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 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 the Year/’ and “Missionary Gleaner.” See Church Mission¬ 
 ary Society. 
 
 The official report and history of the Mission to Uganda 
 
 Dwarf Land and Cannibal Country, In, by Albert B. Lloyd. 
 Cloth, 8vo. pp. 385. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 
 1899. 
 
 Mr. Lloyd has enriched our missionary literature with 
 two books, both of which are well worth reading. He 
 went as a missionary of the C. M. S. to Uganda in 1894. 
 While he was there, King Mwanga rebelled against the 
 British occupation of Uganda, and stirred up a revolt 
 among the Soudanese troops. The author was one of 
 those who assisted in repressing the rebellion, and for his 
 gallantry he subsequently received a decoration from the 
 English Government. A good sportsman and an en¬ 
 thusiastic photographer, the pages of this book are em¬ 
 bellished literally and figuratively, with stories of big 
 hunts and many pictures of characteristic African scenes. 
 Perhaps two of the greatest significance are those which 
 face each other on pages 376 and 377. One shows the 
 old caravan way, over insecure bridges and through 
 morasses, from Leopoldville to the coast. The other 
 shows the new railway. In addition to his other roles, 
 Mr. Lloyd is an explorer. When the time of his first 
 furlough came he determined to strike out a line for him¬ 
 self and go through Belgian territory to the West Coast. 
 This brought him to the Pygmy Forest, where Stanley 
 spent so much time, and his stories of the “little people” 
 are touching in the extreme. One affecting photograph , 
 is of Bishop Tucker, standing by a pygmy mother and 
 child. The book makes no pretense to literary merit, 
 but is simply the truthful narrative of the life of an 
 energetic, earnest young missionary in Africa. 
 
 East African Protectorate, The, by Sir Charles Eliot, K. 
 C. B. Cloth, 12 mo., pp. 312. London: Edward Arnold, 
 1904. Price 15s. net. 
 
 The land between Lake Victoria and the Indian Ocean, 
 over which England extends her protection, is, on many 
 accounts, favorable for colonization by the English. Such 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
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 colonies, if established, would prove most beneficial to the 
 natives, and help immeasurably in uplifting, civilizing and 
 Christianizing them. There are many points concerning 
 which would-be colonists would like information, and 
 this book is a serious and conscientious attempt to give 
 a good idea of what life there might be made. 
 
 It is a far cry from Mackay of Uganda and Bishop Han- 
 nington. There is less religious enthusiasm, less poetry 
 and romance, much, very much more of statistics and 
 economics, but it is Uganda up to date, and as such, very 
 well worth the reading. 
 
 Eighteen Years in Uganda and East Africa, by the Right 
 Rev. Alfred R. Tucker, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of Uganda 
 2 vols., cloth, 8vo., pp. 359 and 388. Price, $8.50. New 
 York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1908. 
 
 Like Sir Harry Johnston’s Liberia, this is the authoritative 
 and official standard for Uganda. It is many years since 
 Miss Mackay, in her life of her brother, brought to readers 
 of Church literature all over the world their first knowledge 
 of this wonderful kingdom on the borders of one of the 
 great African lakes. Writer after writer, Pilkington, 
 Ashe, Harford-Battersby and a score of others have told 
 the story of Uganda with special reference to some one 
 phase of life. Now Bishop Tucker, with a statesmanlike 
 sweep of view, gives us the Churchly, the philanthropic 
 and the political aspects, and illustrates them from his 
 own sketches and studies. The book is too expensive 
 to be generally bought, but, if it can be obtained from a 
 public library, it will amply repay the time which can be 
 given it. 
 
 Hannington, James, First Bishop of-Eastern Equatorial 
 Africa, by E. C. Dawson. Cloth, 8vo., pp. 471. New 
 York: A. D. F. Randolph, 1887. Price 3s. 6d. 
 
 Hannington, Last Journals of Bishop, by E. C. Dawson. 
 Cloth, 16 mo., pp. 239. New York: A. D. F. Randolph, 1888. 
 
 Hannington, Bishop, C. M. P. C. Pamphlet 10c. 
 
 It is just twenty years since the American edition of the 
 Life of Bishop Hannington appeared, yet it is not a super¬ 
 seded book. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of 
 
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 the Church, and one can never understand the wonderful 
 story of Uganda, without knowing the nature of the man 
 who was so cruelly murdered by the people he went to 
 help. His friend and biographer has portrayed his char¬ 
 acter very faithfully. His impetuosity, his fearlessness 
 in danger, his high ideals, his resignation to death in the 
 prime of life, are set before us with a transparent simpli¬ 
 city and deep affection. “He has completed the circle 
 of that great ring of Christian stations of which the signet 
 stone is the Victoria Nyanza, and has welded them to¬ 
 gether with his death.” 
 
 The Bishop’s Journals were written with great freshness 
 and point. Many pages of them are included in the Life, 
 and in the Last Journals, which appeared the following 
 year. An account is given of a Journey to Palestine in 
 1884 and through Masai Land and Neloga in 1885. 
 
 Other Girls, by E. K. Snell. 127 pp. C. M. S. Is. Illus. 
 A description of the life of some representative girls in 
 Uganda, India and China, The book begins by quoting 
 the following advertisement which appears in a London 
 newspaper in 1772: 
 
 “To be sold, a. black girl, eleven years of age, who is ex¬ 
 tremely handy, works at her needle tolerably, speaks 
 English perfectly well, is of an excellent temper and willing 
 disposition. Inquire of Mr. Owen, at the Angel Inn, be¬ 
 hind St. Clements Church in the Strand.” From The East 
 and West. 
 
 This book is intended especially to interest young people 
 in missions and is of the same class as the two earlier 
 books, Girls and Girls. Boys and Boys. C. M. S. 
 Illus. The books suited for reading at Junior meetings 
 are only in part about Africa. 
 
 Pilkington of Uganda Harford-Battersby. Pevell. $1.50 
 
 PlLKINGTON OF UGANDA. 10c. C. M. P. C. 
 
 See Uganda. 
 
 Pygmy Land, On the Borders of, by Ruth H. Fisher. Cloth, 
 12 mo. pp. 215. New York: Fleming H. Revell Co. Price, 
 $1.25 net. 1905. 
 
 Perhaps no part of Africa has been more fully described 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
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 and certainly no part has had a more thrilling story than 
 has Uganda. Those of us who have read of Mackay and 
 Pilkington’s work in the early years, and followed its 
 career to the days of the Protectorate will find much to 
 interest them in Mrs. Fisher’s book. There are four 
 kingdoms included in the Protectorate, the rulers of three 
 of them being baptized Christians and earnestly seeking 
 Christianity for their people. The fourth, the king of 
 Uganda, is only a boy, but he is under good influences, 
 and the future of the Church in Uganda is secure. Toro, 
 one of the four kingdoms, was the scene of the labors of 
 Mr. and Mrs. Fisher. It is, as the title indicates, on the 
 borders of Pygmy Land, the country to the south being 
 the veritable Dark Forest through which Stanley made 
 his memorable journey.* The book is delightfully written 
 —a model of what such a book ought to be—full of in¬ 
 formation about the kingdoms of the Protectorate, to 
 every missionary station of which the author journeyed 
 in turn. Not less interesting is her account of the pyg¬ 
 mies. The first pygmy to be baptized was under her 
 care, and some of her stories are pathetic. We com¬ 
 mend this book most highly. If but a limited number of 
 volumes can be bought for a mission study class this 
 ought to be among them. 
 
 Toro, Visits to the Mountains of the Moon. Written and 
 illustrated by Bishop Tucker of Uganda. C. M. S., 1899. 
 
 A flat booklet full of pictures and descriptions of wonder¬ 
 fully beautiful mountain scenery; but the reader must 
 bear in mind that since this sketch was printed the polit¬ 
 ical and missionary situation has made wonderful changes. 
 
 Tramps round the Mountains of the Moon and Through 
 the back gate of the Congo State, by T. B. Johnson. 
 316 pp. Fisher Union Publishers. Illustrated. 6s. 
 
 The author worked as a C. M. S. missionary for five years 
 in the kingdom of Toro, which lies to the west of Uganda. 
 He had occasion to make several journeys in the neigh¬ 
 boring districts. The longest of these included a march 
 through part of the pigmy forest and a corner of the 
 Congo Free State and round Mount Ruwenzori. Many 
 
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 of the descriptions which he gives of the country and 
 peoples are very graphic. In the districts in which mis¬ 
 sionary work has been started he has frequent occasion 
 to point the contrast between the present and past con¬ 
 ditions of the inhabitants and to emphasize the duty of 
 extending missionary effort .—The East and the West. 
 
 Uganda Protectorate, The, by Sir Harry Johnston. G. C. 
 
 M. G., K. C. B., D. Sc. Cloth, royal 4to., 2 vols., pp. 1018. 
 
 Price £2, 2s. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1904. 
 
 The territories under British protection in East Central 
 Africa, between the Congo Free State and the Rift valley, 
 and between the first degree of south latitude and the 
 fifth degree of north latitude, are now comprised under 
 the one generic title of the Uganda protectorate, and the 
 object of the writer of this* book is to give some descrip¬ 
 tion of the physical geography, botany, zoology, anthro¬ 
 pology, languages and history of the country. It seems 
 as if these two sumptuous volumes covered the ground 
 so exhaustively that it would be many years before any 
 attempt would be made to supplement them. To the 
 student of Africa in any of its numerous aspects the book 
 will be most valuable, helpful and inspiring. 
 
 The beautiful illustrations, colored plates and maps with 
 which it is crowded, testify to the scientific thoroughness 
 and enthusiasm with which this monumental work has 
 been prepared. It is a book to think over, to dream over, 
 to consult for reference on every conceivable question 
 relating to the country. 
 
 Two maps will prove of especial value to the student of 
 missions—that facing page 222 of the first volume, show¬ 
 ing our knowledge of the equatorial lakes according to 
 different travellers at different periods, beginning with 
 Ptolemy, A. D. 150 and ending with the surveys of 1901, 
 and another facing page 276 of the same volume, showing 
 the prevailing religions and forms of belief. 
 
 The wonderful story of Uganda, as we have followed it in 
 different books, is again told, and with vigor, distinction 
 and finish, but so much more is said on this and allied 
 subjects, that the book is in a class by itself. The size 
 
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 47 
 
 of the volumes and their price may prove prohibitive for 
 most mission study libraries, but if they can be afforded 
 they are sure to prove most helpful. They give a broad 
 view of a most interesting country, whose past history 
 and present prospects are alike worthy close and extended 
 study. 
 
 Uganda, The Mission to, by Sir Gerald H. Portal. Cloth, 
 8vo., pp. 348. London: Edward Arnold, 1894. Price 21s. 
 The question of the abandonment of Uganda by Great 
 Britain became in 1893 a great political question in Eng¬ 
 land. Many thoughtful men protested against the ex¬ 
 tension of the British Empire and advocated the abandon¬ 
 ment of the position which Great Britain had acquired 
 in the heart of Africa. To the missionaries the question 
 was rather one of a breach of faith with the Buganda 
 They had placed themselves, in signing the treaty of 
 Captain Lugard, under British protection, and to tear up 
 a treaty so solemnly entered into was felt to be dishonor¬ 
 able. Moreover, the French party in the country were 
 eagerly waiting for an opportunity of taking the place of 
 those whose position in the country had hitherto been 
 paramount. Sir Gerald Portal, under these conditions, 
 was appointed by the British government to visit Uganda, 
 and to report upon the advisability of their retaining or 
 abandoning it. His caravan opened up a new line of 
 march, which is described at length, and the survey of 
 the situation is most manly, temperate and just. 
 
 Uganda and Its People, by Brig. Gen. Lugard, Governor of 
 Nigeria. Cloth, 16 mo. pp. 175. New York: M. F. Mans¬ 
 field & Co. Price $1.00. 1901. 
 
 The bravery, diplomacy and skill of General Lugard is 
 well known to us in the work of others. This very 
 modest volume gives a capital resume of the first occupa¬ 
 tion of the country—the troubles of the missionaries 
 and the general situation up to the Autumn of 1899. Sir 
 Charles Eliot’s much larger work, The East African Pro¬ 
 tectorate, continues the story and covers much of the same 
 ground, but in a very compact form is here presented all 
 the stirring events of the earlier days. 
 
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 Uganda, Mackay of, by His Sister. Cloth, 12 mo.,pp. 480. 
 London: A. C. Armstrong & Co., 1892. Trice 3s. 6d. 
 
 Uganda, Chronicles of, by R. P. Ashe. Cloth, 12 mo., pp. 
 451. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1894. Price 7s. 6d. 
 
 Uganda, Pilkington of, by C. F. Harford Battersby. Cloth, 
 12 mo., pp. 346. London: Marshall Brothers. New York: 
 Revell Co., 1898. Price $1.50. 
 
 Uganda, Two Kings of, by R. P. Ashe. Cloth, 12 mo., pp. 
 291. London: Sampson Low, Marshall, Searle & Rivington, 
 1888. 2s. 6d. 
 
 Uganda, The Wonderful Story of, by the Rev. J. D. Mul¬ 
 lins, M. A. Cloth, 12 mo., pp. 208. London: Church Mis¬ 
 sionary Society. 
 
 Uganda, Through My Spectacles in, by the Rev. Martin J. 
 Hall, B. A. Pasteboard, 8vo., pp. 104. London: C. M. 
 Society. 
 
 In varying ways, these books tell the story of the begin¬ 
 nings of Missionary interest in Uganda, the special work of 
 Mackay, the troubles with Mtesa and Mwanga, the “two 
 kings,” the work of Pilkington, Ashe and others, and the 
 terrible story of the martyrs. They all concern them¬ 
 selves with the early days of Uganda Christianity. Books 
 dealing with the subject in more recent years are noticed 
 separately. No part of Africa has been the subject of 
 more interest than Uganda, both from the political and 
 religious points of view, and the books concerning the 
 country are very numerous and for the most part of great 
 value. In The Wonderful Story of Uganda there is a 
 touching tale of an African convert, Ham MuKasu, told 
 by himself, and Through my Spectacles in Uganda is 
 especially interesting to children and equally so to older 
 people. 
 
 Uganda and Its Peoples, by J. F. Cunningham. Cloth, 
 crown 4to., pp. 370. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1905. 
 Price 24s. 
 
 The Uganda Protectorate includes no less than nineteen 
 races and tribes, differentiated from one another by racial 
 peculiarities and by dissimilar customs and practices. 
 Mr. Cunningham assisted Sir Harry Johnston in the 
 
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 49 
 
 ethnological part of his work, but so valuable did the 
 latter consider the result of his researches, that he advised 
 the publication of them in a separate book, which is, 
 therefore, an anthropological supplement to The Uganda 
 Protectorate. The keynote to the volume is to be found 
 in these words signed by the author and standing on a 
 page by themselves: “Anyone can rule a country who 
 has a sufficient force at his disposal, but he alone who 
 understands the people, their customs, manners and 
 ambitions, can govern them successfully.” 
 
 It is to the would-be civil servants of the Uganda Pro¬ 
 tectorate, therefore, that the book makes its appeal. All 
 possible information about the peoples of that stupendous 
 country is of the utmost value to those young English¬ 
 men who are shaping their studies with direct reference 
 to a livelihood there. The book is profusely and beau¬ 
 tifully illustrated, and is not without interest, but it pre¬ 
 supposes special reasons for special inquiry in a field 
 which has no particular attraction for the general reader. 
 
 Uganda to Khartoum, by Albert B. Lloyd. Cloth, 8vo., pp. 
 
 308. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1906. 
 
 For ten years Mr. Lloyd has labored as a missionary in 
 the western part of the Uganda Protectorate. In that 
 time he has taken two furloughs. The fruit of the first 
 furlough was In Dwarf Land and Cannibal Country, and 
 the present volume is the outcome of his second leave of 
 absence. The most interesting part of the book is the 
 account of the mission to the Acholis, a remote tribe 
 dwelling to the northeast of Albert Nyanza, on the eastern 
 bank of the White Nile. It was one of the earliest, per¬ 
 haps the very earliest, mission to these people, and he 
 found them most interesting, ready and anxious to be 
 taught, and very hospitable to missionaries. When the 
 time came for him to leave the country he sailed north to 
 Khartoum and there took the steamer home. Now that 
 we are watching with so much interest the extension of 
 the work of the C. M. S. into the Soudan, Mr. Lloyd’s 
 book is especially timely. The labors of Mackay and 
 Bishop Hannington belong to a past generation, and while 
 
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 they laid the foundations, the goodly superstructure the 
 later missionaries have reared is greater than they would 
 have deemed possible. Uganda proper is hardly more 
 than a sixth of the Uganda Protectorate, and in the last 
 twenty years two hundred Christians have became sixty 
 thousand; in place of one Church there are now two 
 thousand and a Cathedral holding five thousand people. 
 Forty two-thousand children are under instruction in the 
 schools, and all this work is supported by the natives 
 themselves. To make the work in Uganda an ideal for 
 the work in the other parts of the Protectorate is the ob¬ 
 ject of such men as Mr. Lloyd and his fellow’ missionaries. 
 
 Universities’ Mission to Central Africa. See East Central 
 Africa. 
 
 V 
 
 Vincent, F., Actual Africa. See General. 
 
 W 
 
 WEST AFRICA 
 
 C. M. S. History. Vol. 1, pp. 24-25, 45, 84-86, 92-95, 107 
 125, 173-181, 264, 333-337, 346. Fourah Bay College 375, 
 449-462. Vol. II, pp. 99-123, 427-449. Vol. Ill, pp. 73-83, 
 330, 361, 375-401. Diocese of West Equat. Africa, 398, 
 725, 721-731, 786-787, 802, also chapters V, IX, XIII, 
 XIV, XXIII, XXIX, XXXIX, LV, LVI, LVII, LXXIII, 
 LXXXIX, CIII to 1900 and for later information the 
 “Story of the Year”. “The Gleaner/’ etc. See Church 
 Missionary Society. 
 
 S. P. G. Two Hundred Years, pp. 254-268 up to 1901 and 
 later. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 51 
 
 S. P. G. Report. Mission Field, etc. See S. P. G. 
 
 The above are the official histories and reports of the two 
 Societies which have the charge of all the Church of Eng¬ 
 land Missions on the West Coast. Many details and 
 narratives of interest will be found in their pages. 
 
 Africa’s Forest and Jungle, In. By R. H. Stone. Cloth, 
 16 mo., pp. 282. New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1899. 
 It is barely possible that readers who are particularly 
 interested in the Yoruba Country of West Central Africa 
 may learn something from this book, which is the work 
 of a returned missionary, presumably a Baptist. But the 
 omission of all reference to evangelistic work, except an 
 occasional mention of a prayer or a convert, and the long 
 winded descriptions of the fauna of the country, and 
 careful accounts of the causes and results of tribal wars, 
 make it difficult to tell what he did with his time, unless 
 it was to travel, to hunt and to fight. Dates are also 
 omitted—one would almost say intentionally, if the 
 poverty of the literary style displayed did not account for 
 this and for many other lapses. At all events we have the 
 author’s word that all the incidents narrated occurred 
 some years ago, and the Yoruba Country, like all other 
 parts of Africa, is greatly changed since the author’s day. 
 
 Calabar and Its Mission. By the Rev. Hugh Goldie. Cloth, 
 16 mo., pp. 392. Edinburgh and London: Oliphant, An¬ 
 derson & Ferrier, 1901. Price 5s. 
 
 At the Bight of Biafra, on the Gulf of Guinea, where the 
 coast of Africa bends to the south, is located the town of 
 Old Calabar, where the Scottish Presbyterian Mission¬ 
 ary Society has since 1841 been working. For many 
 years the Rev. Hugh Goldie was at the head of the mission 
 and in 1890 he wrote its history. Now a new edition 
 with additional chapters has been prepared by the Rev. 
 John Taylor Dean, which brings the book up to date. 
 It is a record of the usual trials and encouragements, of 
 the difficulties and dangers, defeats and victories of the 
 little band of consecrated men and women who have been 
 working for so many years to enlighten and Christianize 
 the African native. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 52 
 
 Calabar Mission, The Story of the. Written for children. 
 Cloth, 12 mo., pp. 40. By Jessie F. Hogg, late of Old Cala¬ 
 bar. Edinburgh & London: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier. 
 1902. Price 6d. 
 
 The Calabar Mission was the outgrowth of the desire 
 which the Negroes of Jamaica felt for the evangelization 
 of their friends in Africa. The Scottish Presbyterian 
 Society has been interested in it from the first, and the 
 men who have had the direction of its affairs have been 
 of unusual judgment and tact. The work has been sin¬ 
 gularly blessed, both in material prosperity and in the 
 spiritual quality of its converts. The author tells its 
 story in a way calculated to interest children, giving an 
 insight into the life of a West African village, describing 
 the native manners, customs and superstitions and giving 
 an account of the mission work, past and present. 
 
 Every Day Life Among the Head Hunters. By Dorothy 
 Cator. Cloth, 12 mo., pp. 212. New York and Bombay: 
 Longmans, Green & Co., 1905. Price $1.75. 
 
 The first part of Mrs. Cator’s book is given up to a de¬ 
 scription of her life in Borneo. Her husband was a Gov¬ 
 ernment official, so popular with the natives that she 
 had unusual opportunities of seeing their everyday life, 
 and she describes it with much freshness. The second 
 part, entitled Other Experiences, describes phases of life 
 on the West Coast. The writer speaks of missionaries 
 and their work in a curiously aloof way, as if what they 
 did was a matter of little interest—a mere incident in the 
 life. The illustrations are good and plentiful, and the 
 narrative gives excellent pictures of native habits and 
 customs. 
 
 Fetishism in West Africa. By Robert Hamil Nassau, M. 
 D., S. T. D. Cloth, 12 mo., pp. 386. New York: Charles 
 Scribner’s Sons, 1904. Price $2.50 net. 
 
 The Rev. Wm. Nassau was for forty years a missionary 
 in the Gabun district of the French Congo. His very 
 exhaustive studies of Fetish enabled him to be of great 
 service to Miss Kingsley in her chapters on Fetish in 
 Travels in West Africa, and she gratefully acknowledges 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 53 
 
 her indebtedness. On his third furlough home in 1893 he 
 wrote an essay on Bantu Theology, and this, enriched by 
 ten years more of travel, study and close observation of 
 native African tribes, was the nucleus of the present 
 volume. 
 
 In all probability this study of the religions of African 
 natives has been so thorough that his book will remain 
 the standard for many years. To every traveller or mis¬ 
 sionary or writer is not given forty years to make a study 
 of his subject. Here are the facts, vouched for by his 
 own observation and investigation. On these facts he 
 has built his own system of philosophy—feeble and fal¬ 
 tering at times—sound and confident at others. 
 
 Let us hear his conclusion of the whole matter. He 
 believes that it is possible for human beings to make pacts 
 with the Devil, and share with him in some of his super¬ 
 natural power as prince of the power of darkness and god 
 of this world. He believes it is possible that fetish doctors 
 have been temporarily entered into by satanic power, and 
 that the missionary in his contest with heathenism, has 
 literally to fight with the devil. Mr. Nassau knows of 
 what he speaks. Those of us in a more favored land it 
 behooves to learn, to listen and to wait. 
 
 Fifty Years in Western Africa. By A. H. Barrow, M. A. 
 
 Cloth, 16 mo.,pp. 151. London: S. P. C. K., 1900. Price 2s. 
 There is a real sadness in this little story of a “venture 
 of faith.’' In 1851 the West Indian Church inaugurated 
 this missionary enterprise on the Rio Pongo of the West 
 Coast of Africa, north of Sierra Leone. It met with a 
 reasonable degree of success, and high hopes were cher¬ 
 ished for a time, but as the political situation changed 
 and the French gained increased dominion, it became 
 more and more difficult to maintain the ground so pain¬ 
 fully gained, and further progress became out of the 
 question. Its story differs in few and unimportant par¬ 
 ticulars from that of other missionary stations in West 
 Africa, but as a record of a truly fraternal spirit on the 
 part of the West Indians to keep their kinsfolk in Africa, 
 the story is worthy a sympathetic and respectful hearing. 
 
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 This mission is largely sustained financially by grants 
 from the S. P. G. and the S. P. C. K. In spite of dis¬ 
 couragement two important missionary centres, reaching 
 out to many smaller towns, have been maintained by S. 
 P. G. missionaries. 
 
 Gold Coast Past and Present, The. By George Macdonald. 
 Cloth, 12 mo., pp. 335. London: Longmans Green & Co., 
 1898. Price $2.50. 
 
 The Gold Coast is a strip of land bordering on the Gulf 
 of Guinea. The book is an account of the natural re¬ 
 sources, vegetable and mineral, of that part of Africa, and 
 gives some description of the characteristics of the Kru- 
 boys, as the natives are called. But it is of no partic- 
 lar value as a book for mission study. 
 
 The Gold Coast is of special interest to Churchmen as the 
 S. P. G. opened a new mission there in 1907 which was 
 considerably reinforced in 1908, and arrangements are in 
 progress to create a fourth diocese on the West Coast under 
 the Church of England with Bishop Hamlyn (consecrated 
 in 1905 to be an assistant to Bishop Tugwell of Western 
 Equatorial A frica) as first Bishop of the Gold Coast. 
 
 Gold Coast, Nine Years on the. By the Rev. Dennis 
 Kemp. Cloth, 12 mo., pp. 343. New York: The Mac¬ 
 millan Co., 1898. Price $5.00. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Kemp was a very faithful missionary of 
 the Presbyterian denomination, and has labored most 
 assiduously in his field. He has taken great pains to 
 gather facts which will interest the reader, and his book 
 contains much that will give one a clear account of the 
 conditions under which missionary work in West Africa 
 is being done. It is an exceptionally good book for Mis¬ 
 sion Study classes. 
 
 Hausa Land. By Charles Henry Robinson. Cloth, 12 mo., 
 pp. 279. London: Sampson Low Marston & Co., 1896. 
 Price 2s. fid. 
 
 Hausa Land, which is the country lying near the head 
 waters of the Niger, is said by travellers to be a region 
 of wonderful fertility. Its natives are of unusually fine 
 physique and are intellectually much superior to the 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 55 
 
 other native tribes of the interior. But they are very 
 ferocious, and it has been dangerous to travel in their 
 country. Mohammedan missionaries have worked among 
 them for years, and they are fierce and bigoted in their 
 religious belief. The author thinks that the time has not 
 yet come for any effective work among them. 
 
 Liberia. By Sir Harry Johnston, G. C. M. G., K. C. B., 
 D. Sc. With an appendix on the flora of Liberia by 
 De Otto Stapf, F. L. S. Cloth, royal 4to., pp. 1183. Price 
 £2, 2s. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1906. 
 
 “The Republic of Liberia is an attempt and an atone¬ 
 ment” says the author in the very opening of his preface. 
 “It is an attempt to establish a civilized Negro state in 
 the West African forest, and a somewhat paltry atone¬ 
 ment, which has been made by Britain and her daughter 
 in America for the wrong doing of the slave trade. We 
 have allowed them to take—at least we have given them, 
 a little garden to show what their husbandry can do. To 
 this careless gift we should at least add time. Let us 
 claim for Liberia at least another half century of trial 
 before the world in congress pronounces decisively upon 
 the success or failure of the experiment.” 
 
 These extracts from the preface show the sympathetic 
 spirit in which the book was conceived and written. The 
 author thinks it is wrong to expect twenty or twenty- 
 five thousand Americanized Negroes to effect in a hundred 
 years as much as France and England could do in other 
 portions of Negro Africa with unlimited resources in 
 arms, money and men, during the same period of time. 
 
 The area of the country is trivial—-but 43,000 square 
 miles, but within these limits are locked up, the author 
 believes, some of the great undiscovered secrets of 
 Africa, besides an enormous wealth of vegetable prod¬ 
 ucts and perhaps some surprises in minerals. Here, 
 also, is being tried the most serious and cautious ex¬ 
 periment in Negro self-government. 
 
 There are only 12,000 Americo-Liberians, as they are 
 called, in the entire country, and these inherit in many 
 cases the enfeebled constitutions of their parents and 
 
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 grandparents, the first emigrants. “Many of these 
 were broken-down people, worn-out slaves, dissatisfied, 
 sickly mulattoes or octoroons/’ The author has not too 
 high an opinion of these Americo-Liberians. He says 
 “Their ideals are pitifully Anglo Saxon,” and he objects 
 to their study of the Old Testament and the reverence 
 in which they hold the Fourth Commandment! But he 
 speaks favorably of the work all the missionaries are 
 doing, and in chapter 29 on Social Life gives us a vivid 
 idea of the tremendous disadvantages and difficulties 
 under which they work. 
 
 Our Church began its work there in 1830. It is divided 
 into four districts—Mesurado, Basa, Sino and Cape 
 Palmas, and we have eighteen clergy, sixty-nine catechists 
 and teachers, and instruct over 3,000 pupils. It gives 
 us the credit of being very active in missionary work 
 among the natives, but has very little to say about 
 distinctively missionary matters. 
 
 The flora and fauna, much of which is very distinct from 
 other parts of Africa, and the chapters on anthropology 
 are considered in the second volume, and the last hundred 
 pages are taken up with valuable vocabularies. 
 
 Like “The Uganda Protectorate” the book is too bulky 
 and expensive for general use, but is most valuable for 
 reference. 
 
 Miracle of African Missions, A. By John Bell. Cloth, 
 
 16 mo., pp. 139. New York: Fleming Revel & Co., 1905. 
 
 Price .60 net. 
 
 This is the story of the conversion of Matulo, a heathen 
 of the Congo, under the teaching of a Baptist missionary. 
 It is written as nearly as possible from his own standpoint, 
 and gives a clear idea of the early life of an African native. 
 His home, his parents, his hearing of the Gospel, his 
 struggles against it, the opposition of his family, his 
 persecution, his trial for murder, his release and his hon¬ 
 ored, respected and happy last years are described with 
 touching simplicity. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 57 
 
 Nigeria: Our Latest Protectorate. By Charles Henry 
 Robinson. Cloth, 16 mo., pp. 223. London: Horace 
 Marshall & Son, 1900. Price 5s. 
 
 A book entitled Hausa Land, which was published in 1896, 
 gave to many readers their first knowledge of a great 
 country at the head-waters of the Niger River. Its 
 natives were superior, both in physique and mentality, 
 to the tribes in any other part of Africa, but they were 
 so ferocious and so completely under Mohammedan control 
 that Hausa Land was deemed unsafe for missionary 
 enterprise. But in 1898 the treaty was signed which 
 brought this enormous territory into the British Empire, 
 and as Nigeria we hear much, and are destined to hear 
 more, of what we used to know as Hausa Land. 
 
 The author of that book, and of the one we are now con¬ 
 sidering, is the lecturer in Hausa in the University of 
 Cambridge and his book is most interesting and valuable. 
 Chapter VIII on Missionary Enterprise in Nigeria is 
 especially noteworthy. The English missionary maga¬ 
 zines have given us later news of the missionary move¬ 
 ment, but the book presents the entire situation and will 
 enable readers to follow the reports with fuller under¬ 
 standing and a more vivid interest. 
 
 Nigeria, A Resident’s Wife in. By Constance Larymore. 
 Cloth, 8 vo., pp. 301. London: George Routledge & Son. 
 New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1908. 
 
 It is not many years since Hausa Land, as the southern 
 portion of the Soudan, lying at the head waters of the 
 Niger river, was called, was a closed territory to missionary 
 and explorer alike. Its inhabitants were fierce and war¬ 
 like and the most bigoted of Mohammedans. But now 
 all this is changed. The country is under British rule, 
 and is becoming daily more ordered and civilized. It is 
 now divided, for administrative purposes, into residences, 
 which consist of the towns and villages in a given area, 
 and to these residences the occupants feel it is safe to 
 bring their wives and families. Mrs. Larymore, who had 
 lived for years in India, went to Africa in 1902. Like 
 a wise woman she sought her pleasure in her surroundings. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 She gardened, she planted trees, she drove, she shot, she 
 raised poultry, she gathered a herd of cows and made 
 butter, she collected butterflies, she tamed all sorts of 
 native animals for pets, she studied the symbolism of 
 Hausa decoration and utilized it in her very remarkable 
 embroidery, and last of all she has written a charming 
 book on her life in Nigeria. Such a woman would find 
 happiness and bestow it, wherever her lot was cast, and 
 although there is no directly religious word in her story, 
 it is a most valuable book for a missionary library, not 
 alone for its information, but because of the loving, kindly 
 nature of the philanthropy which shines so clearly in its 
 pages. 
 
 Nigeria, The White Man in. By George Douglas Hazzle- 
 dine. Cloth, 12 mo., pp. 226. London: Edward Arnold, 
 1904. Price $3.50. 
 
 The map of Africa has been so changed by the acqui¬ 
 sition by foreign nations of vast extents of territory that 
 it is only to be expected that the nomenclature should 
 also have been changed, and that we should be obliged 
 to call countries by totally different names. What we 
 used to call Hausa Land is now Northern Nigeria, bounded 
 on its east, west and south by the Niger and the Benue 
 rivers. We used to think of Hausa Land as a purely 
 Mohammedan state, where missionaries could not safely 
 work, and where the people, of an unusual degree of 
 mental capacity and natural physique, were also most 
 savage and barbarous. British rule has changed all this. 
 English officials are located at various points, mission¬ 
 aries can teach and preach in safety, and a great deal of 
 interesting information regarding what has practically 
 been an unknown land is being printed in magazines and 
 books of the day. 
 
 Mr. Hazzledine has given us a very pithy, pointed and 
 picturesque account of what the white man may expect 
 if he goes in an official capacity to Nigeria. He tells 
 him what to take in the way of outfit, what to do to guard 
 against climatic troubles, how to get along with the native, 
 explains the attitude of England, and ends with some 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 59 
 
 excellent chapters on Fetish and Ju Ju. The book is 
 full of color and charm. 
 
 Niger Country, In the. By Harold Bindloss. Cloth, 12 
 mo.,pp. 336. Price 12s. 6d. London: William Blackwood 
 & Sons, 1898. 
 
 Perhaps no recent book on Africa contains more graphic 
 description of the conditions under which men carry on 
 their work in that country than does this. It is to be 
 hoped that conditions have changed in the eight years 
 since it was written, for it paints a picture so lurid and 
 dreadful that it would seem to have been written as a 
 deterrent to any one who was thinking of seeking that 
 country either as missionary, trader or official. The 
 book holds one by its force and sincerity, but one reads 
 it with a sinking heart. Although the author says that 
 he thinks the work is great and well worth the doing, 
 there are two chapters, the fourth and the twenty-sec¬ 
 ond, so brutally plain spoken that one wonders what his 
 real opinion is. It is an intensely interesting book but 
 absolutely unsuitable for a mission study class. 
 
 Niger to the Nile, From the. By Boyd Alexander. 2 
 vols., Cloth, 8 vo., pp. 358 and 420. London: Edward 
 Arnold, 1907. 
 
 It is a sad and striking commentary on the work of African 
 exploration that a well equipped exploring party of four 
 men, soldiers and scientists by profession, with acquain¬ 
 tance with the country, abundant supplies, and knowl¬ 
 edge of medicine should lose half its numbers in little 
 more than a year. Boyd Alexander, of the English rifle 
 brigade, his brother Claud, Captain Gosling and Mr. 
 Talbot, with their personal servants, many native attend¬ 
 ants and a luxurious equipment, went across Africa 
 from the head waters of the Niger to the head waters of 
 the Nile, on foot and with carriers. The four men rep¬ 
 resented as many interests. Ornithology, ethnology, 
 photography and geography were the chief ends of their 
 trips, and there were many interesting side issues. But 
 the deaths of Claud Alexander and Captaffi Gosling put 
 an end to their scientific investigations, and coming home 
 
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 with a scattered array of facts, photographs and impres¬ 
 sions, Mr. Boyd Alexander has prepared this valuable 
 book—a monument to his 'dost comrades.” No one on 
 reading it will wonder any longer that Africa is a difficult 
 missionary field. The climate of “the land the rivers 
 have spoiled”, its slave trading, its cannibalism and 
 other terrible evils, and the low mentality of its people, 
 render it the most difficult of all countries to enlighten. 
 Great honor is due to those who are so faithfully working 
 in so benighted a land. 
 
 Sierra Leone, Seven Years in. By Arthur T. Pierson. D. 
 D. Cloth, 16 mo., pp. 214. New York: Fleming H. Revell, 
 1897. Price 3s. 6d. 
 
 In this volume Dr. Pierson gives an account of the work 
 of William A. B. Johnson, Missionary of the Church 
 Missionary Society from 1816 to 1823 in Regents Town, 
 Sierra Leone. He presents a lively picture of the condi¬ 
 tion of the natives in the first years of the last century, 
 and describes the singularly devoted life of this, their 
 first missionary. The chief interest of the book consists 
 in its description of methods, foreign indeed to our tradi¬ 
 tions of to-day, but apparently efficacious at the time. 
 The same Spirit operates, but the channels are of wide 
 diversity. 
 
 Sherbro and Its Hinterland, The. By T. J. Aldridge, F. 
 R. G. S. Cloth, 8 vo., pp. 343. London: Macmillan & 
 Co., 1891. Price $6.00. 
 
 The author, who was District Commissioner for the West 
 Coast of Africa, has prepared a most interesting book 
 in so careful and thorough a manner that one can feel 
 it to be a perfectly just picture of the condition of the 
 people on the Guinea coast. He goes most exhaustively 
 into the study of the condition of the natives both phys¬ 
 ical, mental and moral, and in pursuance of this study 
 has given several chapters to a consideration of their 
 food, the indigenous products and the possibility of their 
 economic development. The chapters on the secret 
 societies, the Leopard, the Poro, the Bunda and others, 
 are full of interest and of great value to those who wish 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 61 
 
 to realize to what extent our missionaries are exposed 
 to danger, apart from climatic conditions, and against 
 what enormous forces they must fight, in their efforts 
 to reclaim the natives from the darkness of heathenism. 
 
 West Africa Mission, A Visit to the. By the Rev. A. W. 
 Halsey. 12 mo., paper, pp. 71. New York: Presbyterian 
 Board of Missions. 
 
 The work done at Libreville in the Congo Franfaise and 
 in the regions to its south and west, by the missionaries 
 of the Presbyterian Church is very similar in character, 
 though much less restricted in range, to the work our 
 Church missionaries are doing in Liberia, It gives no 
 new ideas to those who are familiar with that work, but 
 it intensifies the sense of need. 
 
 West Africa, Travels in. By Mary Kingsley. Cloth, 8 vo., 
 pp. 627. New York: Macmillan & Co., 1897. Price $2.00 
 
 West African Studies. By Mary Kingsley. Cloth, 8 vo., 
 pp. 566. New York: Macmillan & Co., 1899. Price $2.25. 
 These two books are so extremely interesting that it is 
 hard to say they should be omitted from any list of 
 works on Africa. The author’s first visit to the West 
 Coast was actuated by a desire to finish a work on Sacrifice 
 her father had left uncompleted at his death, and she 
 went to study Fetish. She had a gallant spirit and ac¬ 
 complished marvels, but she tells her story with a flip¬ 
 pancy which is often shocking, and what she says about 
 missions and missionaries has done a great deal of harm. 
 But the chapters on Fetish are invaluable, and in the ap¬ 
 pendices are some interesting papers on The Condition 
 of Trade and Labor, on Fishes, and on Diseases in West 
 Africa. 
 
 Slavery, A Modern. By Henry W. Nevinson. Cloth, 12 
 mo., pp. 215. New York: Harper & Bros., 1906. Price 
 $ 2 . 00 . 
 
 This book is made up from the articles on the Portuguese 
 slave trade which was one of the important features of 
 Harpers’ Magazine in 1906. Mr. Nevinson travelled 
 through West Central Africa and the Portuguese islands 
 
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 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 in 1904 and 1905, and his report is a convincing demon¬ 
 stration of the fact that despite laws and treaties since 
 1830 there has been no effective suppression of slavery 
 in practically its worst forms. This is “contract labor”, 
 a form of slavery in no way to be distinguished from 
 slavery pure and simple save in the matter of legal forms. 
 He gives revolting pictures of existing conditions, but 
 he leaves the whole subject as a problem which cannot 
 be solved except after the lapse of much time and with 
 great difficulty. 
 
 The Ewe-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West 
 Africa. By A. B. Ellis. Cloth, 12 mo., pp. 331. London: 
 Chapman & Hall, 1891. 
 
 The Tshi-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West 
 Africa. By A. B. Ellis. London: Chapman & Hall. 
 
 The Yoruba Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of 
 West Africa. By A. B. Ellis. Cloth, 12 mo., pp. 402. 
 London: Chapman & Hall, 1894. Price 10s. 6d. 
 
 These essays in anthropology are of value to the linguist 
 and the serious student of folk lore. The people who 
 speak these languages all live on the West Coast of Africa, 
 and their tongues are quite distinct, their common origin 
 only to be determined by their construction and roots. 
 The most westerly, the Tshis, are the least advanced in 
 civilization, and the Yorubas, the most easterly, are the 
 farthest advanced. The amount of seaboard held by 
 the Yorubas is less than that held by the others and 
 until recently they were an inland people. At the present 
 time they are the leading people in West Africa. Mis¬ 
 sionaries on the spot would find the books of value still, 
 though conditions have changed and the books are pic¬ 
 tures of a by-gone civilization. 
 
 Timbuctoo the Mysterious. By Felix Dubois. Trans¬ 
 lated from the French by Diana White. Cloth, 12 mo., pp. 
 371. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1896. Price 12s. 
 6d. 
 
 The past ten years have so changed the map of Africa 
 that Timbuctoo is no longer inaccessible and the mystery 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA 
 
 63 
 
 which enwrapped her no longer exists. But the story of 
 a mighty by-gone life is very romantic, and the descrip¬ 
 tions of the intellectual superiority of her former inhabi¬ 
 tants, the Arabians, the wonders of their language, the 
 traditions of the marvellous libraries once existing in 
 Timbuctoo, the subtlety of her politicians and the entranc¬ 
 ing beauty of the town in the old days are all most inter¬ 
 esting and absorbing. The revival of her ancient glory 
 is foretold with prophetic fervor and with the enthusiasm 
 of a Frenchman. The mixture of romance and fact 
 make it a rather noteworthy book, and the illustrations, 
 maps and pictures are excellent. 
 
 Wonderful Story of Uganda, The. J. D. Mullins. See 
 Uganda. 
 
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