For the absolute amateur, coming cold into the field of anthropology, E. E. Evans-Pritchard’s BBC lectures, _Social Anthropology_, offer a most congenial introduction. This should be followed, I suggest, by Alfred Louis Kroeber’s _Anthropology_, originally published in 1923 and updated in 1948. It is hard work. Then, in a hard-driving rush: Ralph Linton’s _The Tree of Culture_, Carleton S. Coon’s _The Story of Man_, Hooton’s _Apes, Men and Morons_ and _Up from the Ape_, Clyde Kluckhohn’s _Mirror for Man_; almost anything by Toynbee and Breasted; and warming to the more immediate theme, Franz Boas’ _Anthropology and Modern Life_ (1928) and his _Race, Language and Culture_ (1940). Boas was the great-granddaddy of the whole Liberal movement in social anthropology; he influenced a generation or more of dutiful followers. Melville Herskovits, of Northwestern, has written (1943) an agreeable biography of him. It merits a reading. And so do Herskovits’ own works, _The American Negro_ (1928) and his more definitive _The Myth of the Negro Past_ (1958). Otto Klineberg’s works are important: _Negro Intelligence and Selective Migration_ (1935) and the useful anthology, _Characteristics of the American Negro_ (1944). The famous UNESCO pamphlet on race has been covered in the text; Ruth Benedict and Gene Weltfish belong in a footnote. A very small footnote. Ashley Montagu, a monstrously irritating man, has to be read, or at least scratched: _Man: His First Million Years_, _Human Heredity_, and _Man in Process_. This last work I fetched home only a week ago. I do not like Ashley Montagu. Langston Hughes’ _African Treasury_ is about what you would imagine Hughes would put out. Better, on African background, are John Coleman De Graft-Johnson’s _African Glory: The Story of Vanished Negro Civilizations_ (1955) and Maurice Delafosse’s _The Negroes of Africa_ (1931). But the bibliography in this area is extensive, and it grows more rapturous all the time. _The African Colonization Movement_, by P. J. Staudenraus (1961) is as good a roundup of this early nineteenth-century movement as I have come across. In the text, I have called attention to Dr. Audrey M. Shuey’s _Testing of Negro Intelligence_. Let me call repeated attention to it here. This is an indispensable reference work, of unimpeachable integrity, for any student who proposes seriously to investigate Negro scores on intelligence tests. The student also should seek out Dr. Henry E. Garrett’s _Great Experiments in Psychology_ (1951), and he should get his subscription in to _Mankind Quarterly_, 1 Darnaway St., Edinburgh 3, Scotland. At the University of Chicago, Dr. Dwight J. Ingle has demonstrated a fierce and wonderful courage in admitting unorthodox views to his _Perspectives in Biology and Medicine_, in which Dr. Montagu has been recently skewered.