Chapter L: Decle

THREE YEARS IN SAVAGE AFRICA. By Lionel Decle. With an Introduction by H. M. Stanley, M.P. With 100 Illustrations and 5 Maps. _Demy 8vo. 21s._

Few Europeans have had the same opportunity of studying the barbarous
parts of Africa as Mr. Decle. Starting from the Cape, he visited in
succession Bechuanaland, the Zambesi, Matabeleland and Mashonaland,
the Portuguese settlement on the Zambesi, Nyasaland, Ujiji, the
headquarters of the Arabs, German East Africa, Uganda (where he saw
fighting in company with the late Major ‘Roddy’ Owen), and British
East Africa. In his book he relates his experiences, his minute
observations of native habits and customs, and his views as to the
work done in Africa by the various European Governments, whose
operations he was able to study. The whole journey extended over 7000
miles, and occupied exactly three years.

H. S. COWPER

THE HILL OF THE GRACES: or, the Great Stone Temples of Tripoli. By H. S. Cowper, F.S.A. With Maps, Plans, and 75 Illustrations. _Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d._

The Turkish prohibition against all European travel in their African
Pashalics has, during the last seventeen years, rendered impossible
both geographical and archæological research. The author, however, was
enabled to make two journeys through the hill range of Tripoli in 1895
and 1896, and this volume deals chiefly with a remarkable series of
megalithic Temples and Trilithons, which he found to exist there in
extraordinary numbers. These ruins have hitherto been quite
uninvestigated, and to Englishmen should have an exceptional interest,
from the light it is believed they will throw on our own national
monument of Stonehenge. In all about one hundred sites were visited
and photographed, and the volume will be fully illustrated by maps,
plans, and photographs. Chapters will also be devoted to modern
Tripoli, the little visited ruins of Leptes Magna, the ancient and
modern geography of the district generally, and the author’s personal
experiences.

W. CROOKE

THE NORTH-WEST PROVINCES OF INDIA: Their Ethnology and Administration. By W. Crooke. With Maps and Illustrations. _Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d._

History and Biography

MORRIS FULLER

THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF JOHN DAVENANT, D.D. (1571-1641), President of Queen’s College, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, Cambridge, Lord Bishop of Salisbury. By the Rev. Morris Fuller, B.D., Vicar of St. Mark’s, Marylebone. _Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d._

Dr. Davenant, Bishop of Salisbury, the maternal uncle of Dr. Fuller,
lived at a very critical time in our history (1571-1641). He was one
of the British representatives of the first great Synod of the
reformed churches held at Dort, was one of Archbishop Laud’s
Suffragans, and assisted him in carrying out his reforms.

Précis is given of some of the Bishop’s writings, and a very
celebrated sermon, never before published and supposed to have been
lost, is printed _in extenso_.

EDWARD GIBBON

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. By Edward Gibbon. A New Edition, edited with Notes, Appendices, and Maps by J. B. Bury, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. _In Seven Volumes. Demy 8vo, gilt top. 8s. 6d. each. Crown 8vo. 6s. each. Vol. III._

J. WELLS

THE CITY AND UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. By J. Wells, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Wadham College. Illustrated by E. H. New. _Fcap. 8vo. 2s. 6d._

This is a Guide—chiefly historical—to the Colleges of Oxford. It
contains numerous full-page illustrations.