Heroes of South-African Discovery, by N. D'Auvers (Marcus Ward), is
a companion volume to "Heroes of North-African Discovery," which we noticed some four months ago. "South Africa" means, we are told, all the country south of the Equator, and the " Heroes " are the travellers who started from some point to the south of that boundary- line. The earlier history is not so rich as that of the other volume. There are no names of past generations to compare with those of Mango Park and Bruce. Indeed, the first really groat South-African traveller is happily still alive, though his first travel carries us back far towards the beginning of the century. After Moffat comes his yet greater son-in-law, Livingstone, and then, to mention the more famous names only, Burton, Spoke, Grant, Da Chailln, Cameron, and Stanley. Miss D'Anvers has collected and employed the materials of this most interesting volume with the industry and skill which we now expect from her. It would be an improvement to the map, if the routes of different explorers could be marked in different colours..,—We may mention in this connection an excellent volume, Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel. Based on Hellwald's "Die Erde mid ihre Volker." "Africa." Edited and Extended by Keith Johnston. With Ethnological Appendix by A. H. Keane. (E. Stanford.) It would not be easy to find a better account of the physical and political con- dition of Africa, and of the work of exploration to which we owe our knowledge of it.
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