not do justice to the enormous adjustments inattitudes in both African and European com-munities which marked this period, nor to thevast educational expansion which occurred. Attimes the work reads more like a chronicle ofevents and views rather than an interpretativehistory.Nevertheless this book has the merit ofbringing together for the first time, quite a fullrecord of the main considerations which haveaffected the growth of the education providedfor all Rhodesians, with particular emphasis onthe development of the African people, in amost thorough assembling of well-documentedfacts. The book has also some of the defectsof a pioneering text, some factual, some inter-pretative, and possibly some of omission.In his introduction to this work ProfessorBasil Fletcher makes a salient point:Two very different imperial traditionsmet at the Zambesi. It has remainedfor a century an ideological barrieracross tropical Africa like the Iron Wallin Europe.This point may have arisen because of anoverready acceptance in this book of commentsby visiting educationists, contained in commis-sion reports and other writings, which haveignored or undervalued this difference. TheUniversity of Rhodesiafact that Southern Rhodesia, after the grantingof responsible government in 1923, was in 1925placed under the British Dominions Office,while Northern Rhodesia continued under theColonial Office, was no administrative con-venience, but rather a decision which recognizedand accepted the operation of two imperialtraditions.This book, therefore, might quite properlyhave challenged the validity of views expressedin early official reports concerning SouthernRhodesia, especially in the light of subsequentevents. It might also have questioned the prac-tice, common in reports which admit littlerestraint in the scope of their purview, of lump-ing together, either for criticism or advice,widely separated countries and diverse com-munities in an Africa that has never been aunit in any sense, save as a land mass.As an area of research the history of formalinstruction in Rhodesia has so far been occu-pied by writers who have provided pamphletsand short works covering some aspect of theprocess. This book deserves the fullest use asa text which spans the period, providing aframework into which other works can befitted, or possibly a kind of architect's elevationwhich permits of a degree of perspective inassessing component works.J. McHARGCatalogue of the C. M. Boke Collection on African Languages In the Library of the Universityof Rhodesia. Boston (Mass.), G. K. Hall, 1972, xxxii, 546 pp. US$29,50.This work catalogues more than 3,000books, pamphlets and manuscripts belongingto C. M. Doke which the University of Rho-desia acquired ten years ago. The collectionincludes some rare books such as Appleyard'sThe Kafir Language of 1850, and invaluablemanuscript dictionaries and grammars on sub-jects such as Rhodesian Tonga. Altogetherthere are works in more than 120 Bantu langu-ages, and there are also valuable works onfolklore.The collection is not systematic, but re-presents the interests and opportunities of alife-time of study, travel, gift, purchase andreviewing, and there is less than one mightexpect on some aspects of Southern Africanfolklore. Nevertheless the research potential ofsuch a collection of early texts on Africanlanguages is great, as has been demonstratedby a recent article on Mwari by G. Fortune(Rhodesian History, 1973, 4). The Cataloguein fact has a useful introduction on Doke andthe Collection by Professor Fortune.Unfortunately there is some confusion asto the exact contents of the Catalogue. ProfessorFortune notes that the Doke Collection thatwas acquired did not contain works by Dokehimself and thus it comes about that neitherthis Collection nor the Catalogue (nor, incident-ally, the University Library itself) contains suchimportant works of his as The Phonetics ofthe Zulu Language of 1926 which, however, hasrecently been made available in a reprint. Itis partly to offset this absence of Doke's worksthat this Catalogue has added to it a useful1084bibliography of Doke's publications. Never-theless some works of Doke, mainly offprints,are included in the Catalogue (see pp.79-84 inparticular), presumably because they were in-cluded in the Collection.The Catalogue itself is photocopied fromthe index cards in the University of RhodesiaLibrary, and they are printed in full in bothan author and subject arrangement. Publisherspresumably know their own business, but itseems very wasteful to thus duplicate all thecards, which themselves are very wasteful ofspace. Instead the reader could have been farbetter served with some explanation and guideto the Library of Congress classification schemeunder which the cards were originally arranged.The section PL 8000-8844 of the Library ofCongress scheme is in fact very intricate andout-moded, and unless a reader takes thetrouble to acquire a copy of those schedules theCatalogue is, regrettably, almost unusable asa tool for research.R.S.R.*ŁThe only journal covering all aspects of Rhodesian law. Notes oncases, articles, hook reviews, reports of specialized tribunals.Published twice year byThe Department of Law, University of Rhodesia, P.O. Box MP 167,Mount Pleasant, Rhodesia.Editor: R. H. Christie, Q.C.SUBSCRIPTION RATES: R$6,00 or US$15,00 PER YEAR109