suggestive throughout. It contains four valuable maps and
has an index largely of names.

Writing from the point of view of the exploiter of Africa, the author
considers such questions as the disposition of the German Colonies
coming into the possession of England at the close of the Great War,
the question of restitution, the partition of Africa, the suggested
union of the Protectorates in Eastern Africa under a Governor
General, the partition of German East Africa, the redelimitation of
boundaries, problems of railway construction and a united East African
Colony. He discusses also the Home Government, native taxation, local
representation, land along with land laws, native rights, their
education, the labor problem, migration, industrial questions, and
missions.

Treating the colonial policy in dealing with the natives, the author
shows some sympathy. He does not believe that the tax on natives has
been wisely imposed and, therefore, asks for a uniform and more
equitable system. To effect such a reform, however, he believes that
the local government with increased authority in its own affairs
should exercise such power rather than have such a policy determined
by the Home Government through its appointive executive and
legislators who act for the colonies though not of them. The question
of native ownership of spare land, he believes, should be carefully
considered, inasmuch as there has never been any real title to the
possession of definite blocks of freehold lands in Native Africa.
Native education also should be taken in hand and there should be
adopted a suitable scheme, applicable to all the Protectorates.

"In the first place in one shape or another," says the author, "we
introduce a direct but immoderate impost such as a hut-tax or a more
general poll-tax, the money for which has to be earned. Next, we
endeavor to create new wants: clothes, ornaments, manufactured goods
and luxuries of all kinds. All this represents a gradual process of
regeneration, as the native is by nature very conservative and,
therefore, slow to adopt new tastes or acquire ambitions. But we
endeavor to raise his ideals and to inculcate the view we ourselves
hold: that man should not be satisfied with mere existence, like
beasts in the field, but should adopt civilisation and everything
that, in the main, we consider to be essential to civilised life. We
ask him, therefore, to produce something--other than for his own
immediate wants