St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-28
STANLEY'S GREAT BOOK.

sin Darkest Africa; or. the Quest,
Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor
of Equatorial" By Henry NJ. Stanley.
With steel portraits, 150 engravings
and folding maps, in 2 volumes, octa-
vo,cloth. Price, $3.50; sold only by snb-
scription. Charles Scribner's SOns,pub-
fishers.
This is unquestionably the greatest of
Stanley's books, as the expedition
wich it describes was by far the most
important of all his explorations.
Rarely has any book been awaited with
so widespread and eager an interest,
and it is safe to say that no modern
book will have so many readers through
out the world, Not merely in the Unit
ed States and England and all her Eng
disappearing depeDdencies,b but through
out Germany, France, Italy, Spain,
Portugal and other nationalities OF En-
rope, and i'll Egypt and other civilized
portions OF Africa, it will be read with
intense and general interest.
Not even Gen. Grants personal
Memoirs created so lively a curiosity,
for the story was already familiar to the
public in most of its details, and inter-
est conferred in the personality OF the
writer as shown in his frank and
straightforward telling of the story over
again. BY reason of his heroic achieve
mentS. Stanley has become personality
fully as interesting to the world at large,
while the adventures, discoveries and
political and commercial results OF his
last three years reSearcfeSi Ill Darkest
Africa" form subject of unparalleled
living interest.
it is impossible within the limits of
review to do justice to the subject mat
ter of the book, by any mere mention of
its varied features OF extraordinary in
tereSt. 1t is a story replete with thrill
ing adventures in painless tropical for
eStS, among the strange tribes of dwarfS
and cannibals of the upper Congo, the
more sturdy and prosperous natives of
| the mountain and lake regions, and the
! fierce bands of freebOoting Arab slave
| raiders, whose very name is a
| terror throughout all Central Africa.
| 1t is a journal of scientific ex-
! plorations. continued for three years
| in march of {, 1000 miles across the At
| rican continent from west to east. and
! resulting in discoveries of iIestimable
| value to commerce, and which will go
| far to insure the speedy civilization of
| this darkest part of the earth. Lit is,
| again, history of semi-military cam
! paign. conducted by a civilian leader
with handful of volunteer officers
| anu DdfDdIldl lOllOWcTS. against OppOS-
ing tribes in overwhelming numbers.
| They were defending their own lands,
while Stanley's small force had few re-
t sources except those of the countries
trayersed. 1t does not detraet from the
skill OF the leader that the expedition
was brought to successful issue with
comparatively little loss of life in bat
ties, and more by patient tact and
diplomacy than by sheer force of arms.
The book is still more than this, in that
il furnishes careful summary of the
progress toward civilization made by
Africa in the last fifty years, and a
trustworthy forecast by the best i'll
formed observer of the far greater pos
sibilities of progress in the immediate
future.
In an introductory chapter is given a
rapid and mastery account of the
Egyptian occupation of the Soudan and
the resulting disasters. eliminating in
the death of Gen. Gordon, and the be
ieaguerment of bis last surviving lieu
tenant, Emin, in the equatorial prov
ince.
The reader must be referred to the
book itself for the full account of the
MANY forest tribes of dwarfs and canni