There are very few novels about South Africa which throw any light on the relations between the races. Here, however, is a first novel.which deals with a situation involving two individuals, one white and one black. It shows the breaking-up of two worlds, one pagan and one protestant, and hints at the possibility of some future reintegration. The author is a Dutch South African, whose father fought against the English [sic] in the Boer War. His insight and his sympathies would in any case be remarkable, but are most striking in one who was born and bred on the veld.