An English newspaper correspondent’s account of the campaign in the East, in which he pays handsome tribute to Russia, whose final triumph he considers as assured in spite of the “effective barbarism” of the Japanese soldiers. There are many illustrations taken in the field by the author.
“Instead of military history, we have a book of impressions, individual and general. Making allowance for its partisanship, this volume grows upon one. At first there is a sense of triviality and of irritation; later, a feeling of interest, if not of sympathy, arrives; there is nothing to arouse sympathy.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 196. Mr. 9, ‘05. 1590w. |
“An interesting work. Mr. Story might have added as a sub-title: ‘As much as I was able to see of it.’”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 109. F. 18, ‘05. 1670w. |
Story of the Welsh revival. pa. [**]15c. Revell.
A number of newspaper accounts of the religious awakening in Wales, brought together for the use of those who look for a similar movement in this country.
| Ind. 58: 897. Ap. 20, ‘05. 60w. |
Stow, George W. Native races of South Africa. A history of the intrusion of the Hottentots and Bantu into the hunting grounds of the Bushmen, the aborigines of the country. [*]$6.50. Macmillan.
“The book is scarcely a treatise so much as an encyclopedia of information.... Including an excellent account of the Hottentot immigration and the first waves of the Bantu influx from the North, a sketch of the distribution of the semi-Hottentot tribes ... much information about the Hereros and the little-known races north and west of the Kalahari, as well as a history of the first wars of Moshesh, the Basuto king, and the doings of early filibusters.... But it is primarily a study of the Bushmen, and the tale of one of the cruelest wars of extermination ever waged,—a glimpse into an elder, almost prehistoric, world of naked savagery.”—Spec.