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Show A Great Work Completed. "The most magnificent contribution of the present century to the cause of geographical literature." DR. BARTH'S NORTH AID CENTRAL AFRICA. Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa. Being a Journal of an Expedition undertaken under the Auspices of H.B.M's Government, in the Years 1849-1855. By HENRY BAETH, Ph.D., D.C.L., Fellow of the Royal Geographical and Asiatic Societies, &c, &c. "With a Map and numerous elegant Illustrations. Complete in 3 vols. 8vo, Muslin, $7 50; Half Calf, $10 50. The researches of Dr. Barth are of the highest interest. Few men have existed so qualified, hoth by intellectual ability and a vigorous bodily constitution, for the perilous part of an African discoverer as Dr. Barth.-London Times. It richly merits all the commendation bestowed upon it by "the IeadiDg journal" of Europe.- Corr. National Intelligencer. Every chapter presents matter of more original interest than an ordinary volume of travels. This is high praise, but it is*due to the intelligence and zeal of Dr. Barth, who pursued his adventures with unflinching courage, and neglected no opportunities. His discoveries, in fact, are parallel with those of Dr. Livingstone in the South. We confess that such a relation has for us an intense interest; we are sure that no serious reader will be disappointed in the narrative of Dr. Barth, which, sprinkled with anecdotes, varied by glittering descriptions of landscapes and manners, written with vigor and simplicity, and disclosing amid the gloom of Africa the secrets of centuries, is a rich repertory of knowledge, and deserves to take its place among the classics of travel.-London Leader. For extent and variety of subjects, the volumes before us greatly surpass every other work on African travel with which it has been our fortune to meet. As an indefatigable traveler, Dr. Barth's merits are undoubted.-London Athenaeum. Dr. Barth's volumes contain the best account of the interior of Negroland we have yet had north of nine degrees of latitude, and he himself is the model of an explorer-patient, persevering, and resolute.-London Spectator. A traveler of wide and varied experience, a close observer of people and things, a conscientious historian, and withal a savan occupying a position of distinguished merit, Dr. Barth's records will be a standard work in the library of every scholar.-N. Y. Herald, Dr. Barth has written with marvelous clearness, and from a mind at once full and critical. No one who wishes to know Africa can afford to dispense with his work.-Boston It is the most magnificent contribution of the present century to the cause of geographical knowledge. To have accomplished his task as he has done, in the face of innumerable obstacles and dangers, indicates the possession of those qualities-that enthusiasm of discovery, that shrewdness of observation, and that practical tact - which lend the charm of heroic and romantic interest to his personal narrative. The discoveries made are of the highest importance as bearing upon the future destiny of the African continent iV. Y. Evangelist. The most important contribution to geographical science that has been made in our time. Thousands of readers in our country will be anxious to get possession of thistreas-ure of knowledge.-N. Y. Observer. One of the most important works of the kind which has appeared for an age.-Lutheran Observer. It can not fail to find its way into the libraries of most scholars.-Lynchburg Virginian. The personal details give the work great interest-Philadelphia Press. The heart of Africa is at last laid open to our view. It is no longer a land of darkness and of the shadow of death. It is no longer a desert waste, a pestilential marsh, or the hiding-place of wild beasts and bloody men. The physical features, the natural products, the races, the governments, the religions of the vast interior of Africa are spread out before us with a minuteness of detail that leaves hardly any thing to be added to our knowledge upon these several points. Dr. Barth's work is a magnificent contribution to geographical and ethnological science.-K Y. Independent. Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, Franklin Square, New York. R^3 HABPEB & BBOTHEES will send the above "Work* by Mail, postage paid, to any part of the United States, on receipt of the Money. |