“Ask me to show you a man of brains,” he concluded; “a man who has done many good things and who is destined to do many more; who would not stoop to a mean act; whose watchword is ‘Upward,’ ever upward; who is as gentle and pure in his life as he is brilliant in his profession; ask me to show you such a man and I point, gentlemen, to our young friend, Dick Sumner.” In these later days, when Dick is needed in the Transport office, a telegram quickly reaches him in the cottage in which he and his mother live in Russellville. He is frequently to be seen in the offices of Brounlow & Company, for his second and third and fourth books have succeeded as well as the first, and he is a man of affairs. Sometimes he is detained till the last train has left the city, but that makes no difference now; for there is a room always ready for him in the big old-fashioned brick house on Brooklyn Heights that has been Florrie’s home ever since she became Mrs. Harry Darling. W. A. WILDE & CO., PUBLISHERS. _IN WILD AFRICA._ _Adventures of Two Boys in the Sahara Desert, etc._ By Col. THOS. W. KNOX, author of “The Boy Travelers,” “The Young Nimrods,” “A Lost Army,” etc. 325 pp. Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50. The least known part of the Dark Continent is the one described in the new book “In Wild Africa.” Central Africa has been traversed by many explorers, until every part of it is known, and the larger part of South Africa has entered the domain of civilization and is equipped with railway and wagon roads. Northern Africa, with the exception of a strip two or three hundred miles wide along the coast of the Mediterranean, is almost a terra incognita; its only roads are caravan trails, and comparatively few explorers have ventured to brave its inhospitalities. Lake Chad has been known to exist for more than ten centuries, but it has been seen by fewer white men than Lake Tanganyika and the Victoria Nyanza, both discovered within the past forty years. The narrative is replete with adventure and incident, combined with the description of the countries traversed and the people who inhabit them. A part of the route has been personally traveled by the author, who has thus been enabled to inform himself thoroughly concerning the countries he has described. No author understands better how to write for young people than Colonel Knox, and parents and guardians owe much to him for conveying a vast deal of very useful information, geographical and historical, respecting the manners and customs of foreign nations.--_Boston Commercial Bulletin._ We can hardly imagine a better way of imparting information to young people. The present volume is similar in plan to those which preceded it, and is worthy of the same hearty commendation which was accorded them.--_Christian Intelligencer, N. Y._ _FOREMAN JENNIE. A Young Woman of Business_. By AMOS R. WELLS, editor of _The Golden Rule_. 268 pp. Illustrated. Cloth, $1.25.