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grey. But he has lived to see the accomplishment of his fondest 
hopes and aspirations, and, in the acclamations of his fellow-men 
throughout the world, to reap the honour which is due to him. 
May he live to see all his observations verified, and his surmises 
confirmed. 
From the description which is given of the court and character of 
the Emperor Mtesa, and of his readiness to embrace Christianity, it 
would seem that there is at length some encouragement to European 
euterprise to attempt opening the interior of a vast continent. 
The important additions to our knowledge of African geography 
which have been made through Mr. Stanley’s instrumentality will 
be best understood by examining successively the five maps which 
precede the first chapter in the first volume. Of these maps, 
which have been most carefully prepared, four show the routes 
of previous African travellers and the extent of their explorations ; 
the fifth embodies the results of Mr. Stanley’s last journey; while 
two much larger folding maps give, on a more extended scale, the 
details of his route in the eastern and western halves respectively 
of Equatorial Africa. 
We say nothing of Mr. Stanley’s researches in African Zoology, 
for we learn from the “ Publishers’ Note” prefixed to this work 
that in consequence of the size to which it has expanded, it has 
been found necessary to omit a large amount of valuable matter 
relating to the Hydrography, Ethnology and Natural History of 
Central Africa; and that this material, together with the account 
of Mr. Stanley’s explorations of the Rufiji River, will be published 
in a supplementary volume during the ensuing autumn. 
Of the Natural History, therefore, we shall hope to say something 
later. Meantime we have read enough to convince us that if 
Mr. Stanley has not thoroughly earned the title of “hero,” we 
do not rightly apprehend the meaning of that word. 
Riding Recollections. By G.J. WHyTE-MELVILLE. With Illustra- 
tions by EpGar GIBERNE. Second Edition. 8vo. London: 
Chapman and Hall. 1878. 
THE author of this volume gives us, at the outset, a clue to the 
general scope of its contents, when he dedicates it “on behalf of 
the bridled and saddled to the booted and spurred.” The text, if 
