[45] Prof. N. S. Shaler, Arena, December, 1890. [46] Wm. Matthews, LL. D., on Negro Intellect, North American Review, July, 1889. [47] Benjamin Kidd's "Social Evolution," page 295. [48] Page 95. [49] Page 216. [50] Page 218. [51] "The Prosperity of the South Dependent upon the Elevation of the Negro," L. H. Blair, pages 55-58. [52] Report of Metropolitan Police Department for the year 1896, page 11. [53] Frederick Douglass' "Lessons of the Hour," page 8. [54] "Sexual Crimes among the Southern Negroes," by Drs. Hunter McGuire and G. Frank Lydstron, page 8. [55] Page 307. [56] The Literary Digest, July 24, 1897, page 361. [57] "Race Traits and Tendencies," by Frederick L. Hoffman, page 95. [58] "Vital Statistics of the Negro," by Frederick L. Hoffman, Arena, April, 1892. Transcriber's Notes: Passages in italics are indicated by _underscore_. The following misprints have been corrected: "embraciug" corrected to "embracing" (page 10) "communinities" corrected to "communities" (page 14) "natarally" corrected to "naturally" (page 29) "henious" corrected to "heinous" (page 31)