The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-04

about To you, I give them and may they be as a zephyr to the desert heart."
 Many of the epigrams or aphorisms are classics. among them being the follow- ing, picked at random:
 ''There may come years of unconscious
 ness of world beyond, still there is a
 something immortal that survives the
 wreck pushing onward and upward far Into bliss.'
 "A good conscience is more to human
 lty than riches. This life Is transitory and the glory short at it's best"
 ITO give us this day our daily bread
 Is to give us affection and thought; not
 food for the natural, but food for the
 spiritual each day."
 Our thoughts are at home among the
 stars"
 Self is our worst enemy, and it has
 to be fought at such unexpected times;
 and the unexpected time is all the time.' "Along the Intervale' is valuable book
 in many ways there is g. thought for each day in the year which uplifts and carries us into the realms of the beau tiful and the infinite; it is well worth a
 place in every library.
 THE NEW MAP OF AFRICA" By Herbert Adams Gibbons, Ph. D., F. R. Hist. The Century company, pub fishers. New York.
 "The New Map of Africa" is in every way 8 companion volume to Dr. Gib- bons previous work, ''The New Map of Europe" That Is to say. it gives the history especially on the diplomatic side, of the crucial years from 1899 to the great war as they affected Af- rica. Necessarily the author also glances at African affairs before 1899. as far back as 1850, and considers the future of that rich and coveted con- tinent. Africa offers to the over- crowded, ambitious and powerful Euro pean nations their nearest and otber- wise most available field of expansion and commercial exploitation; but the nations have been by no means agreed as to who should possess what. The military and diplomatic movements of the contesting countries in Africa have not been previously covered in conn pact form in any book.
 pr. Gibbons writes from flrst-hand experience. having spent 8 considera- bIe part of last year travelling in
 Egypt, the Sudan, the Barbary states, and other parts of Africa, during which he interviewed almost everyone of
 prominence and came in close touch with the natives. This personal survey of conditions in Africa has given life and time1iness to his historical re- searches, conducted mainly in the Ma tional library in Paris and the British Museum. Dr. Gibbons discusses, among other subjects, Great Britain in the Sudan, the situation in Egypt. the is- lands of Africa, the development and conquest of the German colonies, the transformation of the Belgian Congo, etc. The book Is equipped with all nec- essary maps.
 Dr. Gibbons was born in Annapolis, Md. 1880. and is graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, 1902, as
 well as D. D. and Ph. D. from Prince ton. During the last 10 years he has lived abroad, travelling extensively as
 a correspondent for various American newspapers. For three years he served
 as professor of history at Robert col lege, Constantinople. He now makes
 his home, with his wife and four chil- dren, in Paris, where he is engaged 1 in research work at the Bibliotheque Rationale Last summer he returned to l this country as official a delegate for
 the American relief commission Dr.
 Gibbons has published several previous
 books. They include "The New Map ot
 Europe" which unravels the complica-
 tions of European welt-po1itik" dur
 ing the. years 1900-1914; Paris Re-