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The Northern Bantu, by John Romeo (Cambridge University Press, 12s.

6d. net), gives an anthropological account of half-a dozen of the less important tribes in the Uganda Protectorate. The information provided in the book is all derived from first- hand information obtained during the author's work as a missionary. Among the tribes describ d a great variety of stages of social evolution are represented, including purely pastoral and purely agricultural peoples, a tribe of lake-dwellers who live actually on the water of lakes and rivers, and a tribe of cannibals.