industry the old master-servant relation of the Boer republics. The Apartheid doctrine, he tells us, is a living political dinosaur. Whether or not the oversimplified dichotomy of paternalistic and competitive societies will really do justice to the complexity of the contrasts involved in these societies, van den Bergh's readers will judge for themselves. It is worth noting however that even he is dissatisfied with them, for he finds it necessary to supplement them with an analysis in terms of eleven other variables. But be this as it may this is a useful contribution to the rela-