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NEGRO MINSTRELS IN ALL ITS PRIMITIVE CLEVERNESS
| Out of the black heart of Africa comes the fierce element of strength in the weird music of old Barbary. With nothing but their four tom-toms, these negro drummers make a music of pure, pulsating rhythm charged with emotional effects that throb upon the nerves and sway the soul |
THE SHOP CAVE IN THE WALL AND ITS REASON
| By the tiniest of booths, these Algerian tailors are finishing a burnous, or long, white woolen cloak. Under the Turks, prosperity in shopkeepers was a crime; their descendents still squat at work by an open cave, however good their business, for this was the old way of avoiding confiscation |