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of Congo are nearly all missionaries, it is natural that most of the literature should be of a religious character, but a few collections of fables, tales, and proverbs have also been issued. The bibliography has been very carefully compiled, and is as complete as could be expected with so many small local presses concerned. It is made more interesting by the insertion of photographs of some of the more prominent writers. Still more interesting is the fact, not referred to by Professor Starr, that there are now tens of thousands of readers amongst the various tribes speaking these languages, and that most of the literature here tabulated was printed on presses, in different parts of the Congo, worked by natives.

Bolobo, Congo Beige. A. E. Scrivener.

MiTTEILUNGEN AUS DEN DEUTSCHEN SCHUTZGEBIETEN : ErGAN- ZUNGSHEFT No. I. WiSSENSCHAFTLICHE ErGEBNISSE MEINER ETHNOGRAPHISCHEN FORSCHUNGSREISE IN DEN SUDOSTEN

Deutsch-Ostafrikas. Von Dr. Karl Weule. Berlin : Mittler, 1908. Pp. x+150. 63 plates and map.

Germany has realised the advantage of sending her museum officials into distant lands to study and collect on the spot. Whether we shall get so far in England before the natives of our dominions over the seas are exterminated or Europeanised is rather problematical ; we have only just begun to realise — officially — that it is worth while to study them at all, even for such painfully mundane purposes as their cheaper and, let us hope, better governance. Led by Berlin, most of the important German museums have in the last year or two sent one or more members of their staffs, mainly into German colonies, and Dr. Weule reports in the work before us on one of these trips. He visited the Yao, the Makua and Makonde, and the Angoni, but the visit to the latter was only a flying one, and little of interest is reported.

Dr. Weule has been most successful in collecting information about initiation ceremonies, male and female, and quite a quarter