“Feminine frailty and masculine arrogance and the sexual inequalities of social customs and the laws continue to furnish material for her satire and weakly witty garrulity.”
| + | Ind. 58: 212. Ja. 26, ‘05. 110w. |
Hollis, A. C. Masai, their language and folk-lore. [*]$4.75. Oxford.
A study of the language, myths, traditions, enigmas, proverbs, and customs of this fast vanishing East African race by the chief secretary of the East African Protectorate, assisted by native authorities.
“Mr. Hollis’s is the fullest study yet made. It is impossible to do justice in the course of an ordinary notice to this exceedingly interesting book, which is, moreover, absolutely free from padding of the ordinary kind.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 742. Je. 17. 2420w. |
“In describing the mythology, folklore, and customs of the Masai he has hit upon a method as scientific as it is original.”
| + + + | Lond. Times. 4: 143. My. 5, ‘05. 460w. |
“For the first time the civilized world has been presented with an authoritative work on the Masai language, customs, and folklore, by Mr. A. C. Hollis. It is the authoritative study of the Masai people; and it is satisfactory to record that the author confines himself mainly to facts and not to theories.” H. H. Johnston.
| + + + | Nature. 72: 83. My. 25, ‘05. 1200w. |