Rhodes’s influence turned the British Empire, which had been a mixture of good and evil, into a brigand state. The Colonialist, by William Kelleher Storey, is a brave and learned book. I would recommend it to anyone interested in the history of Africa; who has taken sides in the recent quarrel about “Rhodes Must Fall,” in Oxford or other parts of the world; or who wants to entrench themselves in contrary positions in our apparent “culture wars.” It is the biography of a vicar’s son, born in