128BOOK REVIEWSFigures (e.g. 1.2) to less than a page size as compared to the rather overlarge Figures (1.4 and 5.1). The style of referrencing by means of footnotesappears both antiquated and shortsighted, particularly as there is no fullreference list at the end of the work. The greatest pity is that the discussionends in mid-air. There is no attempt at a solid conclusion and in this respectthe last chapter, on the African retail system, appears to be a mere appendix.Nevertheless, if seen in terms of the objectives inferred at the outset ofthis review, the Occasional Paper is largely successful; certainly on thestrength of it, a standing order for the Series would appear to be worth con-sidering.University of the WitwatersrandK. S. O. BEAVONStatistics of the Roman Catholic Church in Rhodesia By R. H. Randolph.Gwelo, Mambo Press, Occasional Paper, Missio-Pastoral Series No. 6,1976, 38pp., Rh$0,50.The title of this pamphlet is misleading, since only twelve of its thirty-eightpages are actually devoted to statistics of the Roman Catholic Church in Rho-desia. Relevant statistics are given on Catholic education, Catholic seminarians,Catholic priests and religious, and the Catholic population, in which figuresfor Rhodesia are compared with world figures and those of other specifiedareas. The rest of the pamohlet contains statistical tables on a multiplicitv ofaspects of Rhodesian society, ranging from 'Land Apportionment in Rho-desia 1890-1969' to 'Full-time Students at the University of Rhodesia 1971-1975'.The statistical tables are not only poorly presented, but are also largelyunsystematic duplication of figures from various original sources such as theStatistical Year hook of the Church 1975 and the Rhodesian Census ofPopulation 1969- There is no attempt to interpret the statistics, and the graphi-cal representations of the figures given below the first five tables are notreadily comprehensible and do not clarify the statistics. Furthermore, some ofthe data presented are not comparable and therefore are meaningless. Forexample, in the Table 'Christian Churches in Southern Africa' (p. 10), SectionA refers to Rhodesia in 1974 and Section B to South Africa in 1970. Inaddition, Section A gives a comparison of European,and African membershipof the main churches in Rhodesia; the figures for the European populationare taken from the 1969 census, while the figures for the African populationare presumed to be estimates for 1974. Moreover, in the same Table 1975figures represent the Roman Catholic population for both races.This small pamphlet may become more intelligible if it is read in con-junction with Fr Randolph's other work in this series, Aspects of CatholicLife in Rhodesia, but regrettably, on its own it adds little to our knowledge.The pamphlet has no obvious framework and since there is neither an in-troduction nor a conclusion, the question of the author's intention and pur-pose in publishing this work, and of his perception of this conglomeration ofstatistics remains unanswered.University of RhodesiaDIANA SEAGER