Chapter 25

AFRICA

The Redemption of Africa

FREDERIC PERRY NOBLE

Illustrations, Maps and Tables, 2 vols., 8vo, Cloth, $4.00.

The subtitle of this book. “A Story of Civilization,” is a most fitting supplement to the distinctive title. “No book on any land surpasses this in thoroughness of preparation, wealth of citation, impartiality of judgment, and the predominant desire to tell nothing but the truth.”—N. Y. Sun.

Dawn in the Dark Continent: Or Africa and its Missions.

JAMES STEWART, M. D., D.D.

Colored Maps, 8vo, Cloth, $2.00 net.

There has probably been no man more competent to outline the missionary work in Africa than the veteran founder of the famous Lovedale Institute. This is just what he has done in this volume, supplementing it by some invaluable comments on the training of a missionary.

The Egyptian Sudan

REV. JOHN KELLY GIFFEN

Illustrated, 12mo, Cloth, $1.00 net.

This new mission field of the American United Presbyterian Church has been recently brought into prominence by John D. Rockefeller’s gift to it of $100,000. Mr. Giffen’s book describes, in a most interesting style, the unique problems faced in such a country.The Interiorknows of “no other book so full of information as to a great military and economic center on the Cape-to-Cairo railway.”

On the Borders of Pigmy Land

Illustrated, 12mo, Cloth, $1.25 net.RUTH B. FISHER

Mrs. Fisher is a successful author and has written a book which commands the enthusiastic approval of “all sorts and conditions” of papers, missionary, religious and secular. The Mountains of the Moon, the Great Lakes, the Uganda Railway, Pigmies and other tribes combine to give a rare and significant setting to the work of the missionary.

Pioneering on the Congo

REV. W. HOLMAN BENTLEY

Illustrated, 2 vols., 8vo, Cloth, $5.00 net.

The Jungle Folk of Africa

With introduction by Robert Mackenzie, D.D., LL.D.

Illustrated, net, $1.50.ROBERT H. MILLIGAN

“A book that is remarkable for its vitality, picturesqueness, humor and literary quality. Mr. Milligan saw a lot during his seven African years, and saw it all very clearly, so that he came away with a pretty thorough knowledge of the folk among whom he had lived.”—N. Y. Times.

Bishop Hannington and The Story of the Uganda Mission

Illustrated, net, $1.00.W. GRINTON BERRY

“One always reads the romance of Bishop Hannington’s life with fascination. This record deals with the early life of the martyr missionary and of the influences that led to his giving his life to the cause. It is a graphic, racy and altogether stimulating volume.”—United Presbyterian.

Daybreak in Livingstonia

JAMES W. JACK, M. A.

Illustrated, 12mo, Cloth, $1.50 net.

“One of the best missionary histories, combining possibilities of romance almost as thrilling as King Solomon’s Mines, with a calm presentation of visible and tangible results that ought to open the eyes of any who still consider Christian Missions a failure.”—Glasgow Herald.

In Africa’s Forest and Jungle

Illustrated, 12mo, Cloth, $1.00.REV. R. H. STONE

A record of Six Years Among the Yorubans on the West Coast of Africa, with numerous tales of thrilling experiences growing out of the wars between the great African tribes. “A vivacious and deeply interesting volume.”

The Sign of the Cross in Madagascar

REV. J. J. KILPIN FLETCHER

Illustrated, 12mo, Cloth, $1.00.

With remarkably vivid touch the author describes the early conditions, the coming of the “strange messengers,” the “mighty faith,” the bitter persecution, the divine interposition, the changes and the victory of the Cross.

The Personal Life of David Livingstone

W. GARDEN BLAIKIE, D. D.

Portrait and maps, 8vo, Cloth, $1.50.

This standard life of the great missionary and explorer has the peculiar advantage of the special authorization by his family to use unpublished journals and correspondence. There is thus a peculiar power in its presentation of what theS. S. Timescalls his “simple but noble life of self-surrender to a great motive.”

Pilkington of Uganda

C. F. HARFORD-BATTERSBY, M. A., M. D.

Illustrated, 8vo, Cloth, $1.50.

A fitting sequel to the biography of Alexander Mackay, covering with that a moral transformation equal perhaps to anything recorded even in apostolic days.

A Life for Africa

ELLEN C. PARSONS

Illustrated, 12mo, 1.25.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTESMoved Ad from the beginning to just before the ads at theend.Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling.Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.The music files are the music transcriber’s interpretation of the printed notation and are placed in the public domain.

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