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The author is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. This volume, subtitled Historical, Experimental, and Psychological Studies, represents careful, painstaking research and is a highly significant and important document. More than the first third of the volume is devoted to the history of the founding of the Cape of Good Hope as a stopping place for ships that had to pass the treacherous point from east to west Settled for such purposes by a company, the earliest records are yet available for study. In considerable detail the author traces this development and the white man's conflict with the Hottentot, Bushman, etc., up to the racial prejudice of the modern era in Africa. The second part of the volume is devoted to the study, preparation, and utilization of techniques for determining present racial attitudes among college students. The third part of the volume summarizes modern psychological findings and advances some interpretations. The author shows how speciously prejudices are built up by a selective examination of history. He strikes rather deeply but not enough so. One gathers the author did not lose himself altogether in his subject. Thus although creative or truly piercing ideas are not found in the volume, the objectivity has the alternate advantage of a presentation of material that should have value for other investigators for some time to come.
To the reviewer, the highlight occurs at the beginning of the volume when the first settlers find themselves not molested by the natives who on the other hand seem loath to trade with the white men. The query then is made of the settlers (and with all the subtlety of expert diplomacy), and how would we be treated if we should take ship and attempt to establish a colony on the coastline of Holland. So the settlers and the Hottentots just played the waiting game, highly civilized one must admit for those who are considered to be barbarians. The reader may surmise who lost