“The interest grows more intense to the end.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 190w. |
Lloyd, Albert B. In dwarfland and cannibal country: a record of travel and discovery in central Africa. *$3. Dutton.
The author is a missionary-explorer with more than ordinary zest for thrilling adventure. This record follows his course far into the wilderness of Central Africa to the “forest of pygmies in whom Stanley was so much interested, and he had the best of opportunities for studying and describing this strange nation of dwarfs, who have kept their identity as a race from time immemorial.” (Outlook.) “With boatmen of the cannibal Bangwa tribe he sped down the Aruwimi, and at night in the villages saw their savage dances and the orgies of their warriors over the kola-nut pot.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The reader who gets beyond the common place narrative and reflections of the opening chapters will be likely to continue to the end.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 263. S. 19, ’07. 460w. |
“It is rather a pity that he did not find some literary friend to edit his book and correct his weird ideas as to the form and function of the sentence. Otherwise his naive and straightforward style adds to the charm of his work and makes it all the more vivid.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 522. Ag. 31, ’07. 1470w. |
“The book is, as a personal narrative of experience, decidedly readable, but it has the usual fault of books of this kind in that it relates too minutely and without careful discrimination the unimportant as well as important matters.”