Gerold, a young bell founder on his way from Italy to his home in Bavaria encounters Gatterer, a noted bell founder of the Tyrol and stops to work in his foundry. Thru a series of rough and bloody incidents it is discovered that Gatterer and his workmen are a gang of villains who plunder and murder all who travel thru their forest. As a result of this discovery Elizabeth, who has passed as his daughter, is restored to the name and position of which the highwaymen robbed her and becomes the bride of Gerold.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 511. Ag. 24, ’07. 110w. |
Dennett, R. E. At the back of the black man’s mind; or, Notes on the kingly office in West Africa. *$3.25. Macmillan.
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Mr. Dennett writes out of the fulness of a wide experience among the Bavili both as a private resident and as an official. About three-quarters of the book under review deals with the hierarchy of kings and chiefs, the laws, social organization, marriage, birth, and death customs, psychology and philosophy of the Bavili; the remainder of the book treats with much the same subjects as they have been observed by the author in Benin. Finally, there is a valuable appendix by Bishop James Johnson on the religious beliefs and social laws of the Yoruba people.
“The evident sincerity of the writer and his sympathetic appeal on behalf of a better understanding of the black man must commend him both to those whose interest in the backward races of mankind is purely scientific and to those who desire to understand the negro for his own sake.”
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“With a little more sense of method, the value of [his] contribution to science might have been doubled.”