New York the proprietor of the New York Herald, had expedition. already sent out an expedition under the com Herald mand of Mr. Henry M. Stanley, who accidentally fell in with Livingstone on the 10th of November, 1871. He remained with him until the 13th of the following March, and the Athenæum of the 27th of July, 1872, states that “Stanley may be expected on Wednesday next at the earliest. Letters from There are letters from Livingstone on their way Livingstone. to England; these are directed to the late President of the Royal Geographical Society, to Sir Bartle Frere, and to Mr. Bates." On August 3rd it is stated that the letters have been received, and "are filled chiefly with complaints about the plunder of his stores. Allusions are made to geographical facts of some interest and importance not yet published, one of which is that he had not yet discovered the outlet to Lake Tanganyika; the other, that the Lualaba and its lakes were very much below the level of Albert Nyanza. The letters are chiefly written from Unyanembe in February last." This Livingstone expedition cost the New York Herald between 8,000l. and 9,000l. Stanley's 'How I found Mr. Stanley's book 'How I found Living. stone: Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries Livingstone.' in Central Africa; including Four Months' Residence with Dr. Livingstone, is reviewed on the 16th and 23rd of November, two long articles being devoted to the book. "Mr. Stanley had undertaken an arduous and perilous task. He carried it to a successful end, with an amount of determination and a steadfast resolve to overcome all obstacles which command our admiration......No one can read his account of the attack on Mirambo's stronghold, and the flight of the Arabs, or of the mutiny among his own men in Ukonongo, without being convinced of the extraordinary difficulties that had to be encountered, and of the thorough fitness and capacity of the man who faced and overcame them. It was no easy task for this young traveller to force his way to Ujiji, and to relieve the old explorer who so sorely needed help; and, after a careful perusal of his narrative, we are glad to bear our testimony to the heroic nature of the achievement. Mr. Stanley's admiration of the Doctor's great qualities, his enthusiastic partisanship and warm friendship, are traits which do him honour, and enhance the claims which his fortitude and courage have upon our respect......Dr. Living- Livingstone's resolve to stone, as we all know, resolved to complete his remain. work by exploring the sources of the Lualaba, and Mr. Stanley handed over to him 2,788 yards of various kinds of cloths, 992 lb. of beads, 350 lb. of brass wire, a waterproof tent, an air-bed, a canvas boat, a bag of carpenter's tools, arms and Stores supplied by Stanley. ammunition, cooking utensils, a medicine chest, and a sextant; forming altogether about forty loads. Dr. Livingstone also found thirty-three loads of his own stores, and Mr. Stanley calculates that the Doctor was thus supplied with sufficient to last him four years. He required a few additional articles from Zanzibar, and especially a good watch and other instruments, and fifty trustworthy men as carriers. These Mr. Stanley undertook to send up from Zanzibar, and he set out for the coast with Livingstone's journal and letters on the 13th of March. He performed the march of 535 miles, wading through swamps, across torrents, and wearily tramping through dense jungle, in thirty-five days, and reached Bagamozyo on the 6th of May. Thus was this great service completed, a service for the performance of which Mr. Stanley earned and has received the most cordial recogStanley and nition from the Queen and people of England, the Royal and especially from the President and Fellows Geographical Society. of the Royal Geographical Society."* * "The Council assembled weeks before the usual period, and broke one of the standing rules of the Society in granting Mr. Stanley the Patron's Medal fully six months before the appointed time. Such haste in the recognition of geographical merit is altogether unprecedented; and Mr. Stanley is the only man who ever received the medal, in defiance of the standing rule, in the autumn previous to the general meeting." An obituary notice of the Rev. Frederick Denison Maurice appears on the 6th of April, 1872. "John Sterling and Frederick Maurice became friends at Cambridge, under their common tutor, Julius Hare: they married sisters; and it was in the house of Sterling's two surviving daughters, No. 6, Bolton Row, Piccadilly, on Easter Monday, the great theologian passed away.* Associated so closely in domestic relationship with Sterling, it was the good fortune of the Cambridge Professor of Moral Philosophy to become, by his second marriage, the brother-in-law of Julius Hare, while the genial, liberal, and scholarly archdeacon elected as his wife one of Maurice's sisters-a bright and large-hearted lady, the sunshine of whose welcome and cordial entertainment can never be forgotten by any who ever had the happiness of being guests at the rectory of Hurstmonceux. But she has gone, * On the evening of Easter Day, Dr. Radcliffe asked Maurice whether the gloom which had oppressed him had been lifted off. Maurice said, "Yes; here has been more light. It has been an Easter Day." When the end came 66 he seemed to make a great effort to gather himself up, and after a pause he said, slowly and distinctly, 'The knowledge of the love of God-the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, be amongst you-amongst us-and remain with us for ever.' He never spoke again." (Mrs. Maurice's diary in the life by his son.) Frederick Denison and how many besides of the Maurice-Hareand-Sterling circle! There remained, however, if, without intruding into the sanctuary of their private sorrow, we may venture to say it, an abundant ministry of reverence and love in the wife and nieces to watch over the last earthly hours of this remarkable man. Prof. Maurice died in his sixty-eighth year, or we ought, perhaps, rather to say that he lived, during his allotted term, the lives of many men. He was the most indefatigable and joyous of workers. For a period of forty-four years, the ink of his pen was seldom dry. In 1828, in company with the ardent and brilliant Sterling, he began to write for this journal, and for a year and a half His connexion the Athenæum was mainly conducted by those Athenæum. two young men; while it was but the other with the Memoirs by his son. day that a keen two-edged letter in the Spectator gave full demonstration that his eye was not dim nor his natural force abated." His life, "chiefly told in his own letters," edited by his son, Frederick Maurice, was published in 1884, and a long review, which appeared in the Athenæum of the 8th of March of that year, thus closes: "He had great intellectual gifts united with strange intellectual deficiencies, but, whatever those deficiencies, they were forgotten by him who listened to that penetrating, earnest voice or watched the expression of that pathetic, |
