NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 39 



As a translation of the original into English the book is, on 

 the whole, an excellent one ; but the reader who can command 

 the German tongue has little to gain by its adoption. 



G. B. H. 



The Life of a Foxhound. By John Mills. Third Edition. 

 Illustrated. 8vo, pp. 222. London : Simpkin, Marshall & 

 Co. 1892. 



It is hardly necessary to say more about this well-known 

 work than than that it has given pleasure to a past generation of 

 lovers of country life and sport, and will, in its present form, 

 delight those of our younger readers who do not remember the 

 original publication. 



Delagoa Bay: its Natives and Natural History. By Rose 

 Monteiro. Sm. 8vo, pp. 274. London : George Philip & 

 Son. 1891. 



On its own merits this little book deserves perusal by every- 

 one who is imbued with a genuine love of nature, but it possesses 

 an additional interest from the antecedents of its author, and the 

 conditions under which it was written. Many of our older readers 

 will remember Joachim John Monteiro, an Englishman in the best 

 sense of the word, but of Portuguese extraction, who devoted some 

 of the best years of his life to the exploration of Western Africa, 

 and whose work upon Angola, published in 1875, is still, we believe, 

 the standard book of reference for that important province. The 

 information then conveyed respecting the lower waters of the 

 Congo was considered, at the time, to be of great importance, 

 although, of course, superseded by the subsequent explorations 

 of Stanley and others. In 1876, accompanied by his wife, the 

 author of the present work, he went to Delagoa Bay on the east 

 coast with the express object of working out the natural history 

 of the Portuguese possessions on that side of Africa, and there he 

 died. 



Mrs. Monteiro returned to England in 1878, but after a short 

 stay in this country she decided, in spite of painful associations, 

 to revisit the town of Lourenco Marques, and resume her former 

 occupation of collecting insects, principally butterflies. In a 

 month's time she found herself fairly settled in her cottage on a 

 bluff overlooking "the finest natural harbour in South Africa;" 



