In his _Manual of Psychology_ Dr Stout reminds us that “Human language is especially constructed to describe the mental states of human beings, and this means that it is especially constructed so as to mislead us when we attempt to describe the working of minds that differ in a great degree from the human.” The […]

As this little book is intended to be no more than an introduction to an agreeable branch of microscopical study, it is to be hoped it will not require a formal preface; but a few words may be convenient to indicate its scope and purpose. The common experience of all microscopist confirms the assertion made […]

Native Life in South Africa” is one of the most remarkable books on Africa, by one of the continent’s most remarkable writers. It was written as a work of impassioned political propaganda, exposing the plight of black South Africans under the whites-only government of newly unified South Africa. It focuses on the effects of the […]