"One of the most simple, naive and straightforward books ever written. It fairly reeks with personality.... No man living has had such interesting association with so many interesting people."--_Home Journal._ "Adorned by many pictures, never before published."--_Detroit Journal._ "Possesses unparalleled attractions."--_Boston Journal._ "Major Pond goes deep into his subject, furnishing pen-portraits that are admirably clear and graphic."--_The Mail and Express._ "The whole book, stuffed as it is with anecdotes and extracts from personal letters, is marvelously interesting."--_Boston Transcript._ "All the world loves a teller of stories, and readers will surely take approvingly to the man who gives them so much of entertaining reading as is found in Major Pond's 600 pages of bright personal description."--_N.Y. Times._ "Shining by reflected light, its pages literally teem with interesting anecdotes of many sorts."--_Chicago Evening Post._ "Originality stamps the volume, copiously illustrated with portraits."--_The Boston Globe._ "It has a thousand charms, and a thousand points of interest. It is full of striking gems of thought, rare descriptions of men and places; biographical bits that delight one by their variety, and the distinction of those alluded to. From a literary view it is as interesting as Disraeli's famous "Curiosities of Literature."--_Philadelphia Item._ "If any more charming and interesting book has appeared this season, it has not come to our notice. The get-up is worthy of the matter of the book."--_Philadelphia Evening Telegraph._ THE VOYAGE OF ITHOBAL BY SIR EDWIN ARNOLD Ithobal was the first African explorer we know about. He was a sea captain of Tyre, who rescued and married an African Princess, and then induced the King of Egypt to put him in charge of a voyage of exploration of the wonderful land of his wife's birth. After a voyage of fifteen thousand miles around Africa, he returns after numerous and exciting adventures, which bring out almost every feature of African life and scenery. Ithobal relates the story of his enterprise in a discourse of seven days before the throne of Pharaoh, who crowns him with honors. SIR HENRY M. STANLEY, in a letter to the author, says of it:--"You have added greatly to the happiness of many of your race by the production of so unique a poem, so rich in the beauties of the sweet English language." Other able critics who have read the blind poet's new epic poem unite in calling it even better than the old favorite, "The Light of Asia." EQUAL PARTNERS. By Howard Fielding.