DR. LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. With Portrait, 2 Maps, and 44 Illustrations, 2 vols., 8vo., 28s. The Last Fournals of David Livingstone, M.D., IN CENTRAL AFRICA, from 1865 to within a Few Days of his Death. "The last journals of David Livingstone have come before us like a voice from the dead. The fidelity of a small portion of his people has enabled us to bury his withered remains in Westminster Abbey, and has saved to the world the record of his labours. There is no British name more widely known, or more universally respected, than that of Livingstone. The greatest among African travellers, he has shown a persistence and devotion to his work which has not only upheld the reputation of his country throughout the world, but has infused a new spirit into African exploration, and by his high example he has stimulated others to follow upon the same course, which will eventually result in the opening of that hitherto mysterious region." "I thank Mr. Horace Waller for the able manner in which he, as the friend of Livingstone, has performed the great labour of love in editing the last journals of our great explorer."-Sir Samuel Baker in Macmillan's Magazine. "Mr. Waller's notes and comments as well as his narrative of the closing scene of the traveller's life and of the return journey are worthy of the subject and of his friendship for Livingstone; nor have we anything but praise for the way in which he has executed his most difficult task."-Times. "No better editor of the work could have been found than Mr. Waller."-Guardian. "Mr. Waller has performed his difficult task with zeal and industry, and also with a taste and reticence somewhat rare in editors."- Athenæum. "The records of Dr. Livingstone's journals are so terse, there is so little of what is superfluous, and so much of the highest value, that anyone wishing to have a satisfactory notion of what he accomplished must go to the work itself. Mr. Waller has wisely printed the journa! as he found it."-Nature. "Such is the story of David Livingstone. His journals have been admirably edited by Mr. Waller." -Christian Observer. "Here we have the story of seven years of continuous exertion, indomitable resolution, energy, endurance, and faith-Livingtone's faith in God and his own mission. The arrangement of this mass of material is most satisfactory. Mr. Waller's narrative of the concluding weeks of Livingstone's life, which has been obtained from his servants, assisted by the failing entries in his notebook, far transcends in interest that of the journals themselves; and though the circumstances have been well known in outline for many months, the story is one to be eagerly read."-Spectator. "The journals which Mr. Waller has edited so lovingly."-Daily Telegraph. "Mr. Waller has thus been able to put together a very complete history. He deserves great praise for the excellence of his editing, which has evidently been a labour of love."-Saturday Review. "Mr. Waller, the editor of these journals, has discharged his function with much intelligence and judgment, and has given material value, through his notes, to a work which will ever remain a monument to Livingstone's fame."-Standard. "The work is well edited."-Pall Mall Gazette. "It would be difficult to express in terms of too high praise our sense of the ability, perseverance, and good taste with which Mr. Waller has executed his task. A dear friend of Livingstone, he has accomplished the work as a sacred duty; and his personal knowledge of Africa has enabled him to add many notes which not only connect the various fragments of the journals, but clear up points that would be otherwise obscure, and add to the rich mass of information the explorer had accumulated."-Globe. "Mr. Waller and his colleagues have done their part of the work with admirable skill and with a devout reverence for the man who e writings they have thus deciphered."-English Independent. "Each volume is adorned with engravings, mostly designed from rough sketches by Livingstone, of the scenes which he beheld, of native people, and some incidents of his travelling life amongst them. A lifelike and spirited portrait, from a photograph taken when he was last in this country, is prefixed."-Illustrated London News. "We have here, with Mr. Horace Waller's notes, a complete and intelligible account of Dr. Livingstone's work during the last six years of his wanderings in Central Africa. Every line adds to the reverence which must be felt for the great traveller."-Nonconformist. "Such a book as this which Mr. Waller has put into shape for us, cannot be allowed to pass without something more than ordinary notice. It is a monument of a man the like of whom has rarely been seen in the world. His journals are marked by an earnest piety which is never feminine in its character. In his religious expressions and faith you see the strong manly mind, that has no sympathy with pietistic weakness."-Scotsman. "This splendid work appears under the conscientious and skilful editorship of Mr. Waller."Newcastle Chronicle. "Mr. Waller was one of the companions of Bishop Mackenzie, and an intimate friend of Livingstone's. He has done his work with good taste and no small skill. His notes are all brief and to the point."-Freeman. "A hasty glance at the work enables us to speak favourably of Mr. Waller's good sense in letting the grand old hero tell his inimitable story in his own simple, graphic language.”—Liverpool Courier. |