nal lapse in diction, it is a careful study with 35
illustrations and many documents such as copies of deeds, wills,
family-bible and death records.

WALTER DYSON.

NOTES

"_The Creed of the Old South_," by Basil Gildersleeve, has come from the
Johns Hopkins Press. This is a presentation of the Lost Cause to enlarge
the general appreciation of southern ideals.

From the same press comes also "_The Constitutional Doctrines of Justice
Harlan_," by Floyd B. Clark. The author gives an interesting survey of the
decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, tracing the
constitutional doctrine of the distinguished jurist.

The Neale Publishing Company has brought out "_The Aftermath of the Civil
War in Arkansas_," by Powell Clayton. The author was governor of the State
from 1868 to 1871. Not desiring to take radical ground, he endeavors to be
moderate in sketching the work of different factions.

From the press of Funk Wagnalls we have "_Samuel Coleridge-Taylor;
Musician, His Life and Letters_," by W. C. Berwick Sayres.

Dean B. G. Brawley, of Morehouse College, contributed to the January number
of "_The South Atlantic Quarterly_" an article entitled "_Pre-Raphaelitism
and Its Literary Relations_."

C. F. Heartman, New York, has published the poems of Jupiter Hammon, a
slave born in Long Island, New York, about 1720. Nothing is known of
Hammon's early life. It is probable that he was a preacher. His first poem
was published December 25, 1760. They do not show any striking literary
merit but give evidence of the mental development of the slave of the
eighteenth century.

Dr. B. F. Riley, the noted Birmingham preacher and social worker, is
planning to bring out a biography of Booker T. Washington. Dr. Riley is a
white man and is the author of "_The White Man's Burden_," an historical
and sociological work written in behalf of the rights of all humanity
irrespective of class or condition.

Dr. C. G. Woodson has been asked to write for the revised edition of the
"_Encyclopaedia Americana_" the article on "_Negro Education_."

The Cambridge University Press has published "_The Northern Bantu_," by J.
Roscoe. This is a short history of some central African tribes of the
Uganda Protectorate.

J. A. Winter contributed to the July number of "_The South African Journal
of Science_" a paper entitled "_The Mental and Moral Capabilities of the
Natives, Especially of Sekukuniland_."

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