reports affirm that the rising is headed by the chieftain Rumaliza, and others, that a son and nephew of Tippu Tib were leaders. Another account says that these men had nothing to do with the rising, but that its instigator was an Arab from Kasonga. Further tidings must be awaited before we can know what has actually happened, though the situation there is undoubtedly very grave. Defeat of Slave-traders. — Prince Henri de Croy, one of the Congo Free State Commissaries, reports to his government a successful attack upon a slave-trading caravan in his district of Loulouaburg. On the eleventh of last February he was informed that this caravan, led by one Antonio Alvaz, was approaching from Bihé, and as he had only forty soldiers at his command, he undertook to surprise it by night. Reaching the slave camp at four o'clock A.M. he found it was of a triangular form, each side being about 300 metres long. He could not therefore surround it, and unhappily an alarm was given and in ten minutes all the caravan was on the defensive. Nevertheless Prince Henri began the attack, and in forty-six minutes of a hot fight, which the darkness made yet more difficult, the Bihé men were in full retreat, abandoning thirty slaves and a quantity of powder and guns. All the slaves were taken next day to the station, and, adds Prince Henri, “Nothing can give an idea of the condition of these unfortunates." MASHONALAND. · We have received, as yet, no tidings from the members of the East Central African Mission, who are by this time, we trust, already established in some portion of Gazaland. It is interesting to learn that Mr. Rhodes, the South African Premier, who has recently passed through Gazaland into Mashonaland, speaks with the utmost confidence of the future of this whole region. He says that it is less an Eldorado than a country that will afford a fine field for agricultural settlers. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL. Miscellany. Our Sixty Sacred Books: How they came to us and what they are. A popular handbook for Colleges, Sunday-schools, Normal Classes, and Students, on the origin, authorship, preservation, character, and divine authority of the Christian Scriptures. Third revised edition, with analysis and questions. By Edwin W. Rice, D.D. Philadelphia: The American Sundayschool Union, 1122 Chestnut Street. This volume of 160 pages gives in condensed but clear form most valuable information concerning the greatest of books. It is both interesting and timely. It would be a most helpful handbook to our missionaries in foreign lands. Looking Out on Life. A book for girls. On practical subjects, based on many letters from wise mothers. By Rev. F. E. Clark, D.D., President of the United Society of Christian Endeavor. Boston: D. Lothrop Company. Some Christian Endeavor Saints. With some Golden Rule Recipes; Golden Rule Sermons; Golden Rule Epistles; Pictures from Real Life. By Francis E. Clark, D.D. Boston and Chicago: Congregational Sunday-school and Publishing Society. $1.25. These two volumes, issued so nearly together, illustrate the versatility of Dr. Clark, and are written with his usual felicity of style. They touch in a most practical way, and oftentimes with great delicacy, upon a multitude of topics about which it is well for young people to read. Florence Nightingale, the Wounded Soldieri Friend. By Eliza F. Pollard. New York and Chicago: F. H. Revell Company. This volume is uniform in size and style with the series of missionary biographies published by the Revell Company, and it has a fitting place in that list. For though Florence Nightingale was not technically a missionary, she yet ministered in a most Christlike way to human needs. BOOKS RECEIVED. The Epistle to the Ephesians. By Rev. Professor The Epistles to the Thessalonians. By Rev. Pro- Arrows for the King's Archers. By Rev. Henry For the approaching Annual Meeting of the Board: that the Master of assemblies will be present; that his Spirit may rest upon his disciples in its fulness, making them of one heart and mind and inspiring them with new zeal and devotion for the redemption of the world. DEPARTURES. August 16. From San Francisco, Miss Martha J. Barrows and Miss Cora A. Stone, returning August 27. From New York, Rev. Henry T. Perry and wife, for the Western Turkey Mission. September 6. From San Francisco, Rev. Charles A. Nelson and wife, to join the South China September 6. From San Francisco, Dr. A. P. Peck and wife, returning to the North China September 10. From Boston, Miss Anna F. Webb, Miss Alice H. Bushee, and Miss Mary L. September 18. From Vancouver, Willis C. Noble, M.D., and wife, to rejoin the North China ARRIVALS AT STATIONS. June 26. At Durban, Natal, Dr. B. N. Bridgman and wife, of the Zulu Mission. ARRIVALS IN THE UNITED STATES. August 15. At New York, Rev. J. H. House, D.D., and wife, of the European Turkey Mission. DEATHS. May 24. At Fen-chow-fu, Shansi, Donald Edward, second son of Rev. and Mrs. Charles W. June 23. At Baiboort, Eastern Turkey, Helen Rose, infant daughter of Rev. and Mrs. David July 28. At Kaawaloa, Hawaii, Rev. John D. Paris, formerly a missionary of the American Ludlow, 1st Cong. ch. 14 00 39 16 I 00 45 0099 16 26 33 14 00 57 0997 42 59 34 17.00 14 41 55 00 CONNECTICUT. 10 35 Fairfield county. 50 00 50 00 6,393 46 200 00--4,100 00 10 00 49 33 100 00 210 00 10,493 46 1,350 00--1,719 33 Monson, Cong. ch. and so. South Hadley Falls, Cong. ch. Hampshire county. Amherst, South Cong. ch. Benev. Soc. of Edwards church, 99.36; A friend, 250; A friend, 5, Plainfield, Cong. ch. and Sab. sch. Westhampton, Cong. ch. and so. Middlesex county. Framingham, Plymouth Cong. ch. Lexington, Hancock Cong. ch. Lowell, James Skilton, Darien, Cong. ch. and so. 34 00 22 80 25 78 52 50-135 08 70 00 m. c., 35.50; Oronoque, m. c., 17, Hartford co. W. W. Jacobs, Tr. East Hartford, Cong. ch. and so. Farmington, 1st Cong. ch., toward salary of Rev. Geo. P. Knapp, Hartford, Roland Mather, 500; A friend in Asylum Hill Cong. ch., 5, 505 00 Suffield, Cong, ch. and so. Windsor Locks, Cong. ch., for work in "Papal lands," Tr. Litchfield co. G. M. Woodruff, Tr. 100 00 41 71 Middlebury, Cong. ch. and so., add'l, 16 04 New Haven, Davenport Cong. ch., m. c., 31.72; EDWARD A. ANKETELL, Church of the Redeemer, to const. himself, H. M., 100; James M. B. Dwight, 15, North Madison Cong. ch. and so. East Lyme, Cong, ch. and so. m. c. North Stonington, Cong. ch. and so. Tolland co. E. C. Chapman, Tr. Somersville, Cong. ch. and so. 44 26 Windham county. Danielsonville, Cong. ch. and so. 146 72 38 00--200 76 14 00 16 78 122 50 16 00-169 28 4,267 00 5 00 2,743 00 Bancroft, Cong, ch. 5 85 Coloma, Cong. ch. TO 00 19 00 Columbus, Cong, ch. Cooper, Cong. ch. Detroit, 1st Cong, ch. Kendall, Cong. ch. Laingsburg, Cong, ch. Stockbridge, Mrs. R. W. Reynolds, Watervliet, Plymouth Cong. ch. West Adrian, ist Cong. ch. Brockport, Miss Ellen P. Maynard, Syracuse, Plymouth Cong. ch. Sept. Herald should have been 20.23. Williams Bridge, A friend, NEW JERSEY. East Orange, 1st Cong. ch. 33.56; Mrs. E. R. Titus, 10, New Brunswick, Miss Mary H. Parker, Orange, Mrs. C. D. Dill, 45 00 13 00 20 00 WISCONSIN. PENNSYLVANIA. Conneaut, Cong. ch. 12 00 23 5540 90 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Washington, Y. P. S. C. E. of Ist Georgiana, F. W. Munson, FLORIDA. MISSOURI. Kansas City, Plymouth Cong. ch., 5.66; Olivet Cong. ch., 3.30, 80 50 Fairfield, Cong. ch. Genoa Bluffs, Cong. ch. Magnolia, Cong, ch. MINNESOTA. Mantorville, Cong, ch. Minneapolis, Plymouth church, 36.07; Two members Park-ave. Cong. ch., 31, Ortonville, Cong, ch. 16 31 5 45 5.00 10 00 12 00 2.00 5.00 111 87 200 00-479 80 Wayzata, Cong. ch. OHIO. KANSAS. 10 66 104 52 NEBRASKA. 5 24 18 71 35 73-79 68 110 00 299 96 Linwood, Cong, ch. York, 1st Cong. ch. CALIFORNIA. Batavia, Cong. ch. ILLINOIS. 300 00 2,500 00--2,800 00 3,099 96 Oakland, Plymouth-ave. Cong. ch. Pasadena, 1st Cong. ch. 2.00 San Francisco, Chinese Cong'l Miss'y Redlands, Rev. J. M. R. Eaton, in memory of Mrs. Harriette D. Eaton, late of Fitchburg, Mass. 36246 100 00 500 Beecher, Cong. ch., An absent member, 10 00 Byron, Cong. ch. Chicago, South Cong. ch., 549.16; 1st Cong. ch., 79.94: Leavitt-st. Cong. ch., 15.28; U. P. Cong. ch., m. c., 6.25; Rev. E. P. Goodwin, D.D., 50; "A. H. A.," 5, |