. Review of reviews and world's work. assau was a missionary inthe Gabun district of the French Congo for forty has already written several volumes on Africannative customs and superstitions, but this one is themost ambitious. It is a sad and gloomy story of bar-barism and mental darkness. The volume is illustratedfrom photographs. Mr. E. D. Morels book, King Leopolds Rule inAfrica (Funk & Wagnalls), a bulky volume of fivehundred pages, is a chronicle of ghastly outrages andterrible oppressions on the part of Belgian officials inthe Congo. The pic-tures are particiilarlyrevolting. The
. Review of reviews and world's work. assau was a missionary inthe Gabun district of the French Congo for forty has already written several volumes on Africannative customs and superstitions, but this one is themost ambitious. It is a sad and gloomy story of bar-barism and mental darkness. The volume is illustratedfrom photographs. Mr. E. D. Morels book, King Leopolds Rule inAfrica (Funk & Wagnalls), a bulky volume of fivehundred pages, is a chronicle of ghastly outrages andterrible oppressions on the part of Belgian officials inthe Congo. The pic-tures are particiilarlyrevolting. The authorof the volume has beencarrying on a campaignin the magazines andnewspapers of GreatBritain for years on thesubject of Congo mis-rule. As a member ofthe Aborigines Protec-tion Society, and awell-known writer onWest African ques-tions, he undertook theampliation of thisThe trouble withngo, he declares,e white rulersQu. substitu- rcial relations for human happiness. Theupon the great powers of the world name of E. D. MOBEL. ENTERTAINING True Henry Clay, by Joseph M. Rogers (Lip-pincott), is an attempt to delineate for the present gen-eration one of the most popular of American statesmenof the era which closed with the Civil War. It cannotbe said that the American people have forgotten Clayor his achievements ; but it is certainly ti-ue that as theyears go by many of the things that Clay stood for andworked most strenuously for in his lifetime have beenrelegated to the background, while not a few politicalmovements have been associated with his name towhich he was really a stranger. Mr. Rogers makes noattempt in this volume either to uphold or to condemnany portion of Clays public career. His sole ambitionis to picture Clay just as he was. Mr. Rogers has had ac-cess to all the private papers left by the great Kentuck-ian ; and his lifelong familiarity with Clays career and environment has en-abled him to write,by all odds, the mostentertaining a
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