1829 _The Liberia Herald._ John B. Russwurm was the first editor. Hilary Teague and Edward Wilmot Blyden (1851) edited it at times. Whether it was continuously published, I do not know. It was sometimes, perhaps always, aided by the government. 1830 _Liberian Star._ (1832) _The Amulet._ (1839) _The African Luminary._ (188-) _The Observer._ 1898 _The Liberia Recorder_--1906. Last editor, N. H. B. Cassell. 1898 _Liberia and West Africa._ (Vol. XIV in 1912.) Published by the Methodist Episcopal Mission, at the College of West Africa. Perhaps at first _The New Africa_. ---- _The Weekly Spy._ } ---- _The Baptist Monitor._ } ---- _The New Africa._ } All between ---- _The Living Chronicle._ } 1898 and ---- _The Cape Palmas Reporter_; monthly. J. J. Dossen.} 1902. ---- _The Youth’s Gazette_ (student paper, } College of West Africa). } 1902 _The African League_: Monrovia, monthly; later Buchanan, semi- monthly. J. H. Green. Began publication in the United States; the fourth volume at Monrovia. 1903 _The Monrovia Weekly._ ---- _The National Echo_ (governmental). (1905) _The Liberia Bulletin._ (1905) _Liberia Gazette._ ---- _The Agricultural World_, Monrovia. P. O. Gray. (1907) _The Monrovia Spectator._ 1907 _The Silver Trumpet_, Cape Palmas, quarterly. S. D. Ferguson, Jr. _The Liberia Register_, Monrovia. John L. Morris. 1911 _The Guide, Monrovia_, monthly. F. Wilcom Ellegor. 1912 _Liberia Official Gazette_, Monrovia, monthly. ---- _Christian Advocate._ ---- _Cavalla Messenger._ ---- _Sons of Cape Palmas._ Parenthesis indicates that the periodical was printed at least during the enclosed date. 7. The importance of education in the Black Republic is by no means overlooked, but it has always been difficult to raise the money to conduct schools. The office of Superintendent of Public Instruction is a Cabinet position. In 1912 ninety-one schools were under his direction. There are many mission schools in the Republic, some of them of high grade, and all of them doing a useful work. Liberia College has had an existence of a half century, and most of the men of prominence in the later history of the Republic have received instruction within its walls; it has received a partial endowment from private American sources, but is also assisted by financial aid from the government. As education is one of the most serious problems facing the Republic, it will be discussed under a separate heading, and further comment may be delayed.