T. B. Glanville Abroad and at Home (1878) Original maroon cloth, little scuffed and marked (a few

Original maroon cloth, little scuffed and marked (a few white spots on the front and rear boards). Binding tight.

(vii) + 273pp, frontispiece portrait (genuine photograph laid down).

T. B. Glanville (1822 - 1878) journalist and missionary, began his career as a missionary in India during the early 1840s. Arrived at the Cape in 1855. Took over editorship of The Journal (formerly Graham's Town Journal) in 1866; also taking up parliamentary duties in that year. This collection of his articles and lectures, 'presented in a lively and informative manner, shows a range of interests embracing politics, Bantu affairs, economics, theology, literature, and history.' (DSAB, Vol. III, p. 328).

'A collection of many of the non-political articles written by Mr. Glanville during his residence in India and the Cape. The article entitled "A [Native] Sham Fight" gives a graphic description of a "mimic Aldershot day a la Zulu" got up for the edification of the Duke of Edinburgh, in 1860, by Sir Theophilus Shepstone, outside the town of Maritzburg. The essay "Reverence and the Want of it in this Colony" (written at Graham's Town in 1869), deals with the lack of this quality in colonial life, the writer remarking that in a modern settlement "everything is rude, elemental, unimpressive...Good work shows reverence for work, and a just appreciation of the great place work has in the economy and discipline of life. In this colony work is notoriously bad. It is bad because it is not highly considered; and being bad, it excites no respect." Mention is made of the status of the country with regard to the fine arts, and it is argued that there can hardly be any reverence "for that which can scarcely be said to have any existence." ' - Mendelssohn Vol. I, page 608.