ctice it was, for one Christian man to hold another
in bondage; so that temporal men by little and little, by reason of
that terror in their consciences, were glad to manumit all their
villeins."--Sir T. Smith His. Common, vide 2. Blackstone, p. 96.

[16] Two thousand slaves are said to be now offered to the
Colonization Society for transportation.

[17] The slave population in 1810 was 1,191,364; in 1820, 1,531,436.
Increasing in the same ratio, in 1830 it will be 1,948,587.

[18] The increase in ten years is about twenty-eight per centum, but
as the increase of the latter portion of the period is much greater
than that of the former portion, it will be evident that our estimate
for a single year is correct.

[19] In 1828 it was $24,789,463. See Treasury Report for 1829.

[20] American Convention Abolition Societies, Minutes, 1821-1829, pp.
25-35.

[21] Minutes of Proceedings of a Convention of Delegates from the
Abolition Societies, 1794, pp. 22-25.

[22] American Convention Abolition Societies, Minutes, 1801, pp.
37-41.

[23] American Convention Abolition Societies, Minutes, 1821, pp.
57-58.

[24] American Convention Abolition Societies, Minutes, 1825, pp.
31-32.

[25] American Convention Abolition Societies, Minutes, 1825, pp.
33-35.

[26] American Convention Abolition Societies, Minutes, 1827, p. 19.

[27] American Convention Abolition Societies, Minutes, 1828, pp.
17-20.

[28] American Convention Abolition Societies, Minutes, 1829, pp.
37-40.

BOOK REVIEWS

_The Bantu, Past and Present._ By S. M. MOLEMA. Edinburgh, W.
Green and Son, Limited. Pp. 398. Price, 25/net.

This is an ethnographical and historical study of the native races of
South Africa. The author of the work is a member of the race whose
life he has described. To some extent, then, he has told here his own
story, "relying somewhat on the life of the people in interpreting the
psychological aspect which must be invaluable to a foreigner." As this
book, however, is replete with quotations from various works of white
men who have seen the country only from the outside, and the work
contains no evidence that the writer has extensively traveled in his
own native land, it drifts too much in the direction of a summary of
what these various travelers have thought of Africa. The book,
moreover, is not altogether scientific; and fraught with too many of
the opinions of others who should know less about Africa than the
n