It is impossible, however, in our limited space, even to allude to all the topics touched upon. We must ask our readers to purchase the volume. It is well suited for Sabbath-school libraries, and will be welcomed by good men everywhere who love mission work. As a testimony in behalf of the far-reaching influences of missionary endeavors, it is of rare excellence. We hope its circulation will be swift and extensive. * * * * * BENEFACTIONS. Hon. Peter Cooper left by will $100,000 to the Cooper Institute, New York. Senator Joseph E. Brown, of Atlanta, has donated $50,000 in bonds to the University of Georgia. The late Jos. J. Cook, Esq., of Providence, left to Trinity College $5,000 for the purchase of books. Carleton College, Minn., has received a gift of $12,000 from Mr. E. H. Williams, of Philadelphia. Mrs. Jonathan Adams, of Concord, N.H., bequeathed $5,000 to Holderness Academy as a scholarship fund. Middlebury College, Vt., has come into possession of $1,500 by the death of the widow of Rev. T. A. Merrill, D.D., by which it offers three prizes to the sophomore class. The will of the late Hon. J. N. Hungerford, of Corning, N.Y. bequeaths $25,000 to Hamilton College, in addition to $15,000 given by him to that institution a year or more ago. A gentleman in New York State has recently contributed $5,000 to the Atlanta University to be used as a fund, the interest of which can be applied for annual scholarships. Mr. Moody’s Mount Hermon School for Boys is to receive the entire cabinet of fossil footprints, shells and minerals belonging to the late Roswell Field, of Gill, Mass., and also the sum of $1,600 to provide for its preservation and enlargement. The Vermont Academy at Saxton’s River, Vt., has just received a gift of $12,000 from four prominent Vermonters—$3,000 each from Lawrence Barnes, Julius J. Estey, Jacob Estey and Levi K. Fuller. The widow of John Evans, of South Meriden, has given $2,000 to Wesleyan University to found the John Evans scholarship, open to candidates for the ministry in junior or senior classes. _It has been estimated at Washington that the annual profit to the country by the conversion of illiterate into educated labor cannot be less than $400,000,000. If so, money given for the endowment of educational institutions at the South, like those of the A. M. A., would yield a hundred fold in half a generation._ * * * * * GENERAL NOTES. AFRICA. —The caravan of English missionaries conducted by Mr. Stokes has reached the extreme south of Victoria Nyanza, a little to the west of Kaghei. —Mr. Resteau has established at Ambrisette the first factory of the Belgian Company for African commerce. He has sent the plans for another establishment that the company will found in the region south of the Congo.