MR STANLEY'S TRAVELLING LIBRARY.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7611, 23 July 1890, Page 6

MR STANLEY'S TRAVELLING LIBRARY.

Apropos oi Sir John Pender s story about the pocket Burns which Mr Stanley took with him through "Darkest Africa," it may be interesting to remark that Burns was a new accession to the explorer's travelling library. On his prey.-.-i. expedition ue started with three Uu, . is of nooks, which, however, were _... utter the other thrown away. At last, when less than 3QO miles from the sea, Mr Stanley had lent only the Bible, Shakspeare, Resartus," Norie'a Navigation, and a Nautical Almanac. "Poor Shakspeare," saiJ Mr Stanley, *' was afterwards burned by demand of the foolish people of Zinga. At iJonea, Carlyle and None and Nautical Almanac were pitched away, and 1 had only the old Bible left. Among the numerous private gifts of which Mr Stanley, since his return to England, six weeks ago, has been the recipient, is iucluded a well-thumbed «opy of Shakspeare. The volume was forwarded to Mr Stanley by a working .man, and the acceptance of the gift was acknowledged in terms at once hearty an d courteous. . n „ ■ . _ , It is stated that Mr Stanley has entered into an arrangement to deliver a series of lectures in America on the subject of African exploration. Mr Stanley will proceed to New York in the autumn, and will speak in all the principal cities of the United States.