Collectors of Africana will know that diocesan histories are distinct rarities in South African literature, and it is over fifty years since a complete work on the Diocese of Natal was last published. "Anglicans in Natal", therefore, comes to fill a long vacant gap, and the book is recommended for the attention of everyone who is interested in the past and the present of the South African affairs. The book tells a story of many vicissitudes; of great achievements and of great failures. In this the history of the Diocese has much that corresponds with the history of the Province of Natal, with which indeed it is so closely interwoven. The coincidence of several civic and ecclesiastical Centenaries in recent years adds illustration to this fact. The Reverend B.B. Burnett undertook the writing of this volume as one of the commemorative projects of the Diocese Centenary of 1853-1953. He has fulfilled his task with skill, tact and accuracy, and the Diocesan shares with the readers an immense gratitude for his having succeeded so excellently in the midst of a very strenuous and full life as the Chaplain of Michaelhouse.