gro."

Such are the conditions. Meanwhile, Mr. Seligmann continues, a "new
Negro" has been rising. His growth was not started by the War, as some
think, but accelerated by it, for it was inevitable that he should
come into being. He ranges, in type, from the radical editors of _The
Messenger_ to the "new bourgeoisie" which has learned to fight back
and die, if need be, for the sake of principle and justice. This is
the type of Negro who, in spite of differences of opinion within the
race itself, is gradually working his way toward leadership; and this
is the Negro who now "faces America." "Newly emancipated from reliance
upon any white savior, [he] stands ready to make his unique
contribution to what may some time become American civilization."

What is to be his future? It is Mr. Seligmann's opinion and conclusion
that his future lies largely with the forces of labor, among whom
"color and the habits of thought which come from emphasizing color
distinctions must be subordinated to the need for joint consideration
of common difficulties." "It depends largely," too, "upon the
emancipation of the American people from their newspapers" and upon
whether or not they will demand and obtain "systematic information on
matters concerning colored people and their relation to white people";
for a knowledge of the truth will set the nation free from the "color
psychosis" under which it now labors.

That such a book as this should have been written is in itself an
indication, let us hope, of the coming of the new day in racial
relations toward which Mr. Seligmann points the way.

D. A. LANE, JR.

NOTES

Houghton Mifflin & Company has published John Drinkwater's _Lincoln,
the World Emancipator_. This is not a biography of Lincoln but rather
a type representing the ideals of the American nation and at the same
time the bonds which have attached the people of the United States to
those of England.

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In the _Magazine of History_ for November-December 1917, there
appeared an important letter of Abraham Lincoln to the Mayor of New
York bearing upon a proposed celebration of the Union victories in the
West during the Civil War.

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The article entitled "Fifty Years of Negro Citizenship," by Dr. C. G.
Woodson which appeared in the last number of _The Journal of Negro
History_, is now being used as