ll'i/d Africa. By T. A. Bullock, LL.D. (Simpkin, Marshall, and
Co.)—An instructive specimen of the compiler militant. Dr. Bullock asserts that his aim and plan are exclusively his own. We have no opportunity of saying how true this is of his aim, for we have not discovered that he has any, but of his plan it is distinctly untrue. The practice of profiting by the labours of other men is a plan of great antiquity, though it is, fortunately, seldom that compilers have the effrontery to defend their " plan " by quoting what Dr. Bullock considers the similar method of Gibbon, Buffo°, and Huxley. The book is a nearly worthless one, utterly destitute of form, style, and arrangement. More knowledge of Africa would be gained by reading any of the well-known works on that country. Dr. Bullock writed in a spirit of sectarianism, and does not scruple to descend to vulgar attacks on Major Burton, Sir John Lubbock, Professor Huxley, and the anthropologists generally.
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