4 Mr. Edward Arnold's Autumn Announcements. 



BOYD ALEXANDER'S LAST 

 JOURNEY. 



With a Memoir by HERBERT ALEXANDER. 

 One Volume. Illustrated. 125. 6d. net. 



Those who have read Boyd Alexander's book, " From the Niger 

 to the Nile," will look forward with keen, though saddened interest 

 to the publication of the diary of the great explorer's last journey. 

 It can be safely said that in the history of literature no book has 

 come to light under more romantic or tragic circumstances. The 

 diary, which is an almost daily record of an even more adventurous 

 journey than any of Alexander's previous achievements, is written 

 down to within a little more than a week of his murder in Wadai. 



In the first part is described his bird-collecting expeditions in the 

 cocoa-islands of San Thome, Principe, and Annabon. Afterwards 

 he crosses to the Kameruns and ascends the famous peak, making 

 a large collection of birds. When at a height of 8,000 feet up the 

 mountain he passes through the great earthquake and eruption of 

 1909, and gives a graphic record of the terrible experience. From 

 the Kameruns he travels north to Maifoni in Northern Nigeria, 

 where he fits out a caravan of camels and starts on the last and 

 most difficult phase of his journey, intending to follow the desert 

 route of Nachtigal through Wadai and Darfur to Khartoum. At 

 the time the news of his death reached England little or nothing 

 was known of the cause or circumstances of the tragedy. But now, 

 thanks to the great devotion of those of the explorer's friends who 

 accomplished a hazardous journey to find the truth almost upon the 

 spot, his brother Herbert, in a memoir which is published with the 

 diary, is enabled to give the true account of Boyd Alexander's 

 death, which shows that this valuable life was not thrown recklessly 

 away. 



JOCK SCOTT, MIDSHIPMAN: HIS LOG. 



By "AURORA." 

 One Volume. Crown Svo. With Illustrations. 55. net, 



The author of this entertaining book, a distinguished naval officer 

 who conceals his identity beneath the pseudonym of " Aurora," has 

 turned his experience to good account, and produced a volume 

 which should appeal to everyone who takes an interest in the British 

 Navy. In these pages the everyday life of a sailor and the internal 

 administration of a battleship are vividly and humorously described 

 by one who is obviously conversant with every detail of the service 

 to which he belongs. Jock Scott's Log will be read with avidity by 

 his fellow-midshipmen all the world over, as well as by that vast 



Eublic ashore which should derive much amusement and instruction 

 om so graphic an account of " life on the ocean wave." 



