This work as its title imports does not cover a wide field of investigation and it was not done in Africa. The object of the author is to introduce Europeans and Americans to the soul of the African, who has too long been regarded merely as an object for exploitation. Believing that in the folk-music of a people is imaged the real soul, the author has made in this field researches, the results of which have been herein set forth. The aim finally is to show that the human family is near of kin and that basic emotions of love, of sorrow, of rejoicing and of prayer, whether men be primitive or advanced, white, yellow, red or black, are the same root-feelings planted in us all. The book begins with a rather long introduction, discussing the geography, history, and institutions of Africa. Much space is here given to spiritual beliefs as a stimulus to the development of music. Then follows a discussion of song-poems and of the early music to which they were set. The actual contents begin with a treatment of songs, tales, and proverbs of the Ndau tribe by C. Kamba Simango. The reader, if he has found the details of the contents mentioned above a little tiresome, will have his interest quickened again by the explanation of the _Song of the Rain Ceremony_, the _Spirit-Song_, the _Love-Song_, the _Dance of Girls, Children's Songs, Laboring-Songs, Mocking-Songs_, and the like. There are also such folk-tales as the _Hare and the Tortoise_, the _Baboon, How the Animals dug their Well_, the _Jackal and the Rooster, Death of the Hare_, the _Legend and Song of the Daughter and the Slave_, and the _Sky-Maiden_. After this portion of the book comes the Songs and Tales of the Zulu Tribe, recorded from the singing and sayings of Madikane Cele, a Zulu of royal blood. This includes such as the _Song of War_, _Song of Children_, _Dance Songs_, _Love Songs_ very much like those mentioned above. It treats also of such folk-tales as the _Creation Story_. The music to which these song poems have been set, doubtless will interest most the student of music. Along with this appear keys to the pronunciation of the dialects and translations of some of the songs. The book is well printed and well illustrated with the art work of the Africans portraying in different ways another phase of African life. * * * * * _Educational Adaptations._ By THOMAS JESSE JONES. Phelps-Stokes Fund, New York, 1919. Pp. 92.