W. BERGER.

[1] The steeple of the church, which is 150 feet high, is shingled,
which is the prevailing mode of the village churches in Sussex.
It has also one of the finest windows in Sussex.

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THE SELECTOR, AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_

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DEATH OF CAPTAIN CLAPPERTON AT SOCCATOO.

Agreeably to our promise at the close of the _Memoir of Captain
Clapperton_, prefixed to Vol. XI. of THE MIRROR, we subjoin the
following very interesting narrative of the death of this enterprizing
traveller, as narrated by Richard Lander, his servant. It forms,
perhaps, the most attractive portion of the _Journal of the Second
Expedition_, just published; and to the readers of the foregoing
memoir, will afford still further illustration of all that we have
there said of the high character of Clapperton, and his faithful
attendant, Lander.

On the 12th of March 1827, I was greatly alarmed on finding my dear
master attacked with dysentery. He had been complaining a day or two