Author talk:Alfred Burdon Ellis

Sources

Name: Alfred Burdon Ellis
Birth - Death: 1852-1894
Source Citation:

• The Dictionary of National Biography. The Concise Dictionary. Part 1, From the beginnings to 1900. First Supplement. London: Oxford University Press, 1953. Contains abstracts of the biographies found in The Dictionary of National Biography, First Supplement (Volume 22, New York: Macmillan Co.; London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1909). (DcNaB S1)
• Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature: A Supplement. British and American authors. Two volumes. By John Foster Kirk. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1891. (Alli SUP)

Allibones

Ellis, Major Alfred Burdon, of the 1st West India Regiment, has made fifteen visits to Africa in the course of as many years. 1. The Land of Fetish, Lon., 1883, 8vo.

"Most books on Africa are long and dull. Captain Ellis's book is short and diverting." Sat. Rev., 1v. 835.

"Picturesque and outspoken." R. F. BURTON : Acad., xxvii. 163.

2. The History of the First West India Regiment. Illust. Lon., 1885, 8vo. 3. West African Islands, Lon., 1885, Svo. 4. South African Sketches. Lon., 1887, p. 8vo. 5. The Tshi-Speaking Peoples of the Gold Coast of West Africa : their Religion, Manners, Customs, Laws, Language. Ac., Lon., 1887, 8vo.

"In several respects it recalls Mr. Im Thurn's excellent book on the Indians of British Guiana, both being permanently useful studies of aboriginal tribes at a low state of culture, especially from the psychological stand-point, executed in the light of the new philosophy." A. H. KEARNE: : Acad., xxxiii. 55.