shows that tremendous obstacles had been removed, before the race was allowed to secure the opportunity which it so earnestly desired.  In the chapter on vocational training the effort made by colored people themselves to secure economic equality, and the determined opposition to it manifested by white mechanics are clearly and strongly set forth.  In the appendix of the book one finds a number of interesting and valuable treatises, while the bibliography is of great assistance to any student of race history.

In addition to the fund of information which is secured by reading Dr. Woodson’s book, a perusal of it can not help but increase one’s respect for a race which under the most disheartening and discouraging circumstances strove so heroically and persistently to cultivate its mind and allowed nothing to turn it aside and conquer its will.

“The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861” is a work of profound historical research, full of interesting data on a most important phase of race life which has hitherto remained unexplored and neglected.

Mary Church Terrell.

NOTES

In the death of Booker T. Washington the field of history lost one of its greatest figures.  He will be remembered mainly as an educational reformer, a man of vision, who had the will power to make his dreams come true.  In the field of history, however, he accomplished sufficient to make his name immortal.  His “Up from Slavery” is a long chapter of the story of a rising race; his “Frederick Douglass” is the interpretation of the life of a distinguished leader by a great citizen; and his “Story of the Negro” is one of the first successful efforts to give the Negro a larger place in history.

Doubleday, Page and Company will in the near future publish an extensive biography of Booker T. Washington.

During the Inauguration Week of Fisk University a number of Negro scholars held a conference to consider making a systematic study of Negro life.  A committee was appointed to arrange for a larger meeting.

Dr. C. G. Woodson is now writing a volume to be entitled “The Negro in the Northwest Territory”

The Neale Publishing Company has brought out “The Political History of Slavery in the United States” by J. Z. George.

“Lincoln and Episodes of the Civil War” by W. E. Doster, appears among the publications of the Putnams.

“Black and White in the South” is the title of a volume from the pen of M. S. Evans, appearing with the imprint of Longmans, Green and Company.

T. Fisher Unwin has brought out “The Savage Man in Central Africa" by A. L. Cureau.

“Reconstruction in Georgia, Social, Political, 1865-1872" by C. Mildred Thompson, appears as a comprehensive volume in the Columbia University Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law.