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The difficulty of this author in handling his subject is mirrored in the difficulty he had in finding a title. The subject chosen is so huge—the development of people of mixed blood in lands where European-American (Western) culture has been superimposed upon local peoples and cultures—that all that can be attempted in 222 pages is a summary. To say as the book 'blurb' says, that 'this is the first thorough working out of a new hypothesis concerning the problem' is misleading.
European culture since Columbus has spread over no less than the whole world, and as the author would be the first to admit, the problem of the Eurasian (English plus Hindu) in India is so fundamentally different from the position of the Jew in Austria to-day, or the position of the Indo-Europeans in Java, that no one book on such a huge subject can possibly be thorough.
What the author has achieved is, that in a flying trip around the world—jumping after four pages on the 'Indo-Europeans of Java' straight across the Pacific (seven and a half pages) to the 'Part Hawaiians', etc.—he has indicated for specialists where the main groups of 'marginal men' may be found and where much valuable localized work may be done by sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, and to a certain extent, rulers and statesmen.