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NOW READY AT ALL LIBRARIES' AND BOOKSELLER ^ In Two Volumes , demy 8 vo . with several over smaller 100 Full ones -page , cloth and extra smaller , price Illustrations £ 2 . 2 s . , Two Large Maps , and THE CONGO , AND THE FOUNDING OF ITS FREE STATE : Jl gtforg of § 5 oi- & < xnt > ( PaepJorofion . IO-st ZE 3 I IE "InT IR , ~ 2 ~ IMI- STA . 1 TLET , I Author of ' Through the Dark Continent , ' ' How I Found Livingstone , ' My Kalulu , ' & c . OPINIONS OF THE PRESS . ATHEN"J 33 U"M . — ' Mr Stanley may fairly boasfc of having given to the world two of the most remarkable more interesting books of travel His and two adven handsome ture .. volumes .. and this deserve second the work attention is in every of all respect interested byfar in the the present condition and the prospects of the great African continent . * The TIME founding S . — of ' Mr this . Stanley unique ' s State new is and the long one subj looked ect - which for narrative , during the corresponds last seven essentiall years , has y to never its title lost . probabl its interest y unprecedented . Thi 3 deliberate in the attempt history of to the create world a . new ' . State , seeing the end from the beginning , is successfu ST . l JAMES as the record 'S GAZETTE of it is entertaining . — ' A record of extraordinary Excellently illustrated achievements . ' Will prove as PALL MALL GAZETTE ( first notice ) . — ' Proves to the full as vivid , as graphic , as interesting traveller as anythin , sportsman g we have , adventurer had from , or the of pen Manchester of the most , will daring turn over and its intrep pages id exp with lorer deli . ght The . ' reader , be he and GEAPHIC all the more - — valuable * The book as being , apart written from its by interest the man , Js who an important has himself contribution made that to portion the world of history ' s history / , most D romanti AILY c TELEGBAFH undertaking our . — generation Mr . Stanley has ' known s book . is ' at once a romance and a masterly history of the DAILY HEWS . —• Sufficient in itself to have founded a great reputation . ' STANDARD . — Mr . Stanley ' s work on the Congo may justly be regarded as the book of the season . No other volumes which have appeared within the past year comprise the history of so many , so important , or such varied achievements / MOUNTING * POST . —* A work not only valuable as a record of past achievements , but as a means of sustaining and encouraging that interest in the welfare of the Congo State , without which no permanent success can result from the labours already carried to so good an issue / THE SPECTATOR . — ' It is highly probable that the publication of this work marks a stage in the history of the Congo and of Africa ; it is morally certain that it marks a stage in the career of Mr . Stanley These volumes which , by the way , are profusely illustrated , and which are accompanied by two admirable maps , constitute , indeed , as remarkable a record of indomitable effort as . has ever been published / THE ECONOMIST . — ' Of the two handsome volumes in which Mr . Stanley's story is told , it , however , may be said that those who turn to them , for pleasant reading will no more be disappointed than those who go to them for information / grandest has THE already philanthrop ACAD been made EMY ic under enterprise . — ' Since all but ever his insurmountable acceptance dreamt of of by the obstacles the noble most commission , that ardent success lover seve seems of n years his already kind ago , assured such progress But to the to endurance accomplish , foresi tAiis result ght , resoluti in such on a , and brief profound period , h knowled ow much ge ph of ysical men , labour can be was understood needed , how only much by a patient careful study of these pages , in which are recorded seven years of pioneering work on the Congo basin / < if any WHITEHALL of them will prove REVIEW so useful . — to ' M the r . Stanley world has at large written as great the present books before work will this do one , but we He doubt has written the book of the season , and its contents are such as may yet inspire men to seek to found new colonies in Africa / THE GLOBE .: — ' The narrative is full of interest / DAILY CHRONICLE . — ' Great as was the reputation achieved by the " Dark Continent / ' it will be excelled by these thoughtful and . ably-written volumes / THE AG-E . — ' One of the most remarkable books of the century / ¦; . j \ London : SAMPSON Crown LOW , Buildings , MARSTON , . ip 8 jpeet , Sfra SEARLE ^ JS . O . , & RIVINGTON , J
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 1, 1885, page 618, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01071885/page/34/
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