Twenty-Five Years in East Africa. By John Roscoe. (Cam- bridge
University Press. 25s. net.)—Mr. Roscoe, who was formerly a missionary, is well known as an anthropologist of high repute, with a special knowledge of East Africa and Uganda. His new book does not embody his latest researches but contains • Punth: the Immortal Liar. By Conrad Aiken. London : Martin Becker,
ge.1 concise accounts of the various tribes, with some of his early experiences of African travel. It is well illustrated. Mr. Roscoe has a high opinion of the Baganda, but he points out that the other tribes are at very different stages of civilization. He observes that in Uganda " each man made an effort to marry and to have children, because he thought that his happiness in the future world would depend upon the existence of children who would offer sacrifices to his ghost." The resemblance between, this belief and the Chinese ancestor-worship is noteworthy.
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