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The Aiken-Dreger Mathematics Attitude Scale was administered to a sample of 2538 Urban Middle and High School students in northern California. All the schools serve predominantly minority students. To investigate the factorial validity of the scale, the intercorrelation matrix for the twenty items was computed and factor analyzed. Two factors (Enjoyment and Fear) were derived from the varimax rotated matrix. The results of the study provided empirical evidence to support the two-dimensional structure of the Aiken-Dreger Mathematics Attitude Scale.

REVIEWS attitudes of the early Christian communities, the problems of Church foundation, and the decisive impingement of external realities, notably the two world wars, on the missionary effort in the Southern Highlands. This is a commendable example of an in-depth study of the operation and impact of Missions in a colonial context; if it is not yet' the history of the Churches as opposed to that of the Missions' which Oliver also called for, it is certainly an indispensable basis for that kind of future study. Missionary to Tanganyika, i8jy-i888: the writings of Edward Coode Hore, Master Mariner, edited and annotated by James Wolf, is similarly welcome. This is part of the series on 'Missionary Researches and Travels' being published by Frank Cass, under the general editorship of Robert Rotberg, to make available in convenient form selections from the writings of those connected with the nineteenth-and early twentieth-century church in Africa. Hore, a peripatetic sailor, represented the London Missionary Society at Lake Tanganyika, concentrating his attention upon geographical exploration, and upon establishing a toehold for Christendom in that critically important area. Some of the material has already appeared in print, but extracts from the journals which Hore kept during his trek to the Lake during 1877-8, and on his voyages around it between 1878 and 1880, are published here for the first time. Informatively, although sparely, annotated by Wolf, who is at work on a full-scale study of Hore, this book provides an interesting insight into the perspectives and the problems faced by the man who played a vital role in the establishment of the European presence at Lake Tanganyika.

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