Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-09-19

Adventures and Missionary Labors 10 several couh-
tries in the Interior of Africa from ls49 To 1856.
By /. j. BowEN. Charleston; Southern Baptist
Publication Society.
We are indebted to the publishers for copy
of the above work. We have taken great in-
terest in its perusal, as well on account of
the subject and the manner of its treatment,
as of the character Of the author. In his
earlier life Mr.. Bowen was a Ranger in the
Texan Service, and rallied under the Lone Star
in it's hours of greatest darkness and greatest
peril. Subsequently be embraced religion and
became minister of the gospel. Very rarely
has any missionary been better suited for the
arduous and adventurous service, in the char
acter of his mind and by experience, than Mr..
Bowen. He was despatched to Africa by tie
Baptist Church, and penetrated the country
further than any Of his predecessors, and this
book is literal transcript of his travels and
exPefience-giving geography of the country,
It's soil, production, minerals, etc., manners.
habits, aud customs Of the people; and his
progress as a Gospel Missionary
We subjoin the following notices of the VOL
ume from some Of Exchanges, as expressive of
our opinions:
We know no better volume for all who are IN
terested ia the state condition and prospects of the
continent of the coiored tribes, than BowEs's Afr
ca-aud it is specially interesting as preparing all
readers for larger and elaborate r. ports OF ex
plorations that have not yet reached US Charles
ton Courier.
HARPER's Magazine for September, in its book
notices, says Of this volume
''With great modesty of statement. Mr. Bowen.
energetic and intelligent missionary of the Ban
fist RoaFd kia
ly increasing stock of African knowledge He de- /
scribes, for the first time, several important places
In the interior, and presents ample details with re-
gard TO the religion, languages and social customs
of the natives. His book furnishes Trustworthy
authority, and is OF undoubted value to the Elmo
logical student"
The New York Observer, of August 26th, says
The adventures and missionary labors ia sever
al counties in the int erior OF Africa from Is49 to
1856, by T. j. Bowen, have already been published
In seven successive editions showing the interest
they have awakened. They abound 10 statistics of
great value, in Information respecting the climate
soil, resources and capacities of the country its
population and their manners and customs the
slave trade, the useries of the people, their need
OF the gospel and the Influence OF civilization and
all these things are so graphically portrayed, as to
win the readers fixed attention while be obtains
important knowledge of the interior of this almost
unknown country
''Some of Mr. Bowen's statements are so remark
able 10 be received with profound astoDishment
and Mr. LiviDgstone's, and SO are the re-
ports OF all the travellers who have explored any
part of Central America. a
''Mr. Bowen 10 youth bold and hardy SOL >
der, but in bis manhood and his Christian devO-
ton the qualities of hero born in him have found
a field which soldier ever has a chance to enter
To penetrate alone into entirely unknown and
hostile region; to 60 straight through the gates of
a city peOpled by hundreds OF thousands who look
ed on him with the same wonder they would on G.
an angel or fend dropping down from the clouds; e
to say before the Court and King of great nation
in whose presence he stood arragned as Bowen
did, The God of Heaven is my Kings | am a sol
der, and tIis book referring the Bible is my u
sword and thus TO conquer his way from city to "
city, and through people after people, is achiey-
nent such as Alexander never would have c
dreamed of undertaking. 1t is comparatively COW
lrdice to be cOnqueror shielded all sides by an as
nvincible army. ell
'Pecuiir intellectual as well moral traits al
ways belong to such pioneer."-NationGL H,telli-
yencer.
This book is of interest It ia thrilling as ca
work Of travels, aud possesses double value in IL
be estimation of the philanthropisI who would see
ethiopia stretch out her hands, AID whole cont i ca
leet regenerated. - Louisville Journal Nj