Note 160 — Chapter XIX

I was not a little amused by a reviewer of “The Lake Regions of Central Africa,” in a fifth-rate provincial paper, who, after thanking me for my facts, resolutely insisted upon supplanting all my deductions by his own. Writers in the (London) “Times,” and the “Saturday Review,” enjoy a prescriptive right to “do the thinking” for their readers; but we are apt to recalcitrate when the critical hand of a Methodistico-Missionary print arrogates to itself such claim.