A LONG WAY FROM HOME BY CLAUDE McKAY LEE FURMAN · INC · NEW YORK COPYRIGHT, 1937, BY LEE FURMAN, INC. Permission to reprint poems from "Harlem Shadows" was kindly granted by Harcourt, Brace and Co. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA _To my friends everywhere_ CONTENTS PART ONE AMERICAN BEGINNING CHAPTER PAGE I A GREAT EDITOR 3 II OTHER EDITORS 26 III WHITE FRIENDS 35 IV ANOTHER WHITE FRIEND 45 PART TWO ENGLISH INNING V ADVENTURING IN SEARCH OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW 59 VI PUGILIST VS. POET 66 VII A JOB IN LONDON 73 VIII REGARDING REACTIONARY CRITICISM 86 PART THREE NEW YORK HORIZON IX BACK IN HARLEM 95 X A BROWN DOVE COOING 116 XI A LOOK AT H.G. WELLS 121 XII "HE WHO GETS SLAPPED" 130 XIII "HARLEM SHADOWS" 147 PART FOUR THE MAGIC PILGRIMAGE XIV THE DOMINANT URGE 153 XV AN INDIVIDUAL TRIUMPH 167 XVI THE PRIDE AND POMP OF PROLETARIAN POWER 172 XVII LITERARY INTEREST 185 XVIII SOCIAL INTEREST 191 XIX A GREAT CELEBRATION 206 XX REGARDING RADICAL CRITICISM 226 PART FIVE THE CYNICAL CONTINENT XXI BERLIN AND PARIS 237 XXII FRIENDS IN FRANCE 253 XXIII FRANK HARRIS IN FRANCE 265 XXIV CINEMA STUDIO 272 XXV MARSEILLES MOTLEY 277 PART SIX THE IDYLLS OF AFRICA XXVI WHEN A NEGRO GOES NATIVE 295 XXVII THE NEW NEGRO IN PARIS 306 XXVIII HAIL AND FAREWELL TO MOROCCO 324 XXIX ON BELONGING TO A MINORITY GROUP 342 A LONG WAY FROM HOME PART ONE AMERICAN BEGINNING I A Great Editor That run was the most exciting I ever made on the railroad. After three days away from New York, our dining car was returning again, feeding a morning train out of Philadelphia. A three-days' run was a long one and our crew was in a happy getting-home mood. In the pantry cooks and waiters joked mainly about women, as always, wives and sweethearts; some chanted, "Someone else may be there when I'm gone."