"The Crime of the Kongo." By A. Conan Doyle. Cloth. Price not given. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York. There has been very much said on the Kongo and its crimes. Roman Catholics have charged that the awful stories of King Leopold's work among the natives have been engendered by Protestant prejudice and opposition; others have declared that it was a baseless scandal fostered by rival rubber firms, of whom some are Americans. Still others have contended that in the Kongo has been wrought by King Leopold and his followers the greatest crime in human annals; and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is of the latter opinion. He calls forth the witnesses of this crime, and points out the fact that they are of all nations, that there is no possibility of error concerning facts. There are honorable British consuls who testify as to the detail of fact and date; there are French officers who do the same; missionaries of many races; the "eloquent action of the Italian Government," which refused to allow Italian officers to be employed any longer in such hangman's work; the report of the Belgian commission; and the incorruptible evidence of the kodak. He declares that some at least who have apologized for the atrocities committed there have been paid for it in Kongo gold, and he as an Englishman is looking toward America to see if moral support can not be obtained here to remedy the awful difficulty. There are many who have only shadowy ideas of what the Kongo troubles mean. In this little work the author has set forth the entire question, How the Kongo Free State Came to Be Founded, Its Development, The Working and Fruits of the System, Voices from the Darkness, Various Reports, Catholic Testimony as to the Kongo, and The Evidence up to Date. The profits from the book will go entirely into a fund for further investigations and relief of conditions there.