d America,
are now beginning to give the other phase of the social, economic, and
political questions in Africa. Many of the conditions which have long
obtained in that continent have continued for the reason that persons
on the outside who might have been struck with holy horror, had such
been known, have never learned and, therefore, can hardly realize that
such appalling conditions exist. For this valuable contribution, not
only from the literary point of view, but from that of the
investigator of social and economic problems, the public must feel
indebted to Rene Maran.

NOTES

The first Spring Conference of the Association for the Study of Negro
Life and History was held in the city of New York on April 3d and 4th.
There was a preliminary mass meeting on Sunday, the 2d, at the Mother
A. M. E. Zion Church, where Mr. James F. Morton, Prof. John R.
Hawkins, and Dr. C. G. Woodson delivered addresses which were
enthusiastically received.

On Monday and Tuesday, the 3d and 4th, when the actual meeting began,
a larger number of persons from afar were present. The day sessions
were held at the 135th Street Branch Library where, on Tuesday
morning, Dr. George E. Haynes, Secretary of the Race Commission of the
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ, opened the discussion of
the question "Why one race should know the other one." Other persons
participating in the discussion and giving additional information as
to the bright prospects for the cooperation of the races in the
country were Bishop R. A. Carter, and Cleveland Allen who availed
himself of the opportunity to emphasize the importance of placing the
bust of Frederick Douglass in the New York Hall of Fame.

At the first evening session held at the Concord Baptist Church in
Brooklyn the following evening there was a large attendance. The
meeting was opened by preliminary remarks by the Director. He was
followed by Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard University who
delivered an informing address on "Involuntary Servitude." Remarks as
to the importance of this organization and how the work may be more
successfully prosecuted were made by Bishop R. A. Carter of the C. M.
E. Church, Bishop Lee of the A. M. E. Z. Church and by Dr. George
Frazier Miller, Dr. H. H. Proctor, Dr. W. H. Brown, and Rev. J. B.
Adams.

On the following day, the morning session opened with a discussion on
"How to promote the Study of Negro History in the Schools," led by Mr.
Thoma