THE ZULU IN THREE TENSES (1905) - copy twice inscribed by author

Publisher's green pebble-grained cloth with embossed gilt design on front panel. Bevelled board edges. 168pp. Illustrated.

Twice inscribed by the author in the year of publication, once on the front paste down (where it was perhaps imagined that the floral design of the endpapers obscured his writing) and then on the verso of the dedication page "C. L. Mudie, with the author's very kind regards, August 1905".

A clean and tight example of this title. Title page has a small closed tear at the top of the front edge but with no loss.

'Chapters entitled "Customs," "War," "Wedlock," "Family Life," and "Folk Lore," fully illustrate the present life and habits of the Zulu, whose national existence, it is asserted, became practically extinct after the close of the war in 1879.

"The more potent formative influences" which have been, and are still being brought to bear on the natives, are civilised law, missionary work, education, and bad example, and these four factors are carefully discussed in all their bearings.

Discussing the future, the writer recommends the prohibition of polygamy and the custom of paying for wives (Ukulobola), due notice being given to the natives that at a certain date these practices would be a breach of law, the establishment of courts of equity, together with practical education in industrial work.' - Mendelssohn Vol. II, p.170-171.