10 NOVEMBER 1928, Page 36

Professor Ferdinand Ossendowski of Warsaw is one of those many

people who, starting with no knowledge at all of the African native mind, are willing to believe all that the negro tells them. That way disaster often lies, so far as scientific truth or, indeed, ordinary truth is concerned, but it quite commonly results in an exciting and highly coloured book. It does so in the ease of Slaves of the Sun (Allen and Unwin, 16s.), of which the publishers announce that the Professor, after a year's wanderings in French West Africa (a whole year), is able to display "the collective soul of the teeming millions, of struggling slaves of the Sun."

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