Marvel of Brownsville. H. Bumstead, Independent, May 12. Decadence of the Plantation System. U. B. Phillips, Annals American Academy, January. Slavery in Virginia. S. T. C. Bryan, Nation, May 12. Slave’s Reminiscence of Slavery. M. W. Ovington, Independent, May 26. Liberia and the United States. Outlook, May 7. Negro Suffrage in a Democracy. Ray S. Baker, Atlantic, November. Chapters from My Experience. B. T. Washington, World’s Work, October. Marrying of Black Folk. W. E. B. DuBois, Independent, October 13. The Lady of the Slave States. E. J. Putman, Atlantic, October. * * * * * A long awaited and striking evidence of earnest and deep-seated interest in race questions is the appearance of a new quarterly at Clark University, Worcester, Mass. It is known as the “Journal of Race Development,” and is devoted to a scientific discussion of the primitive races. It is edited by Professor Blakeslee, and the editor of The Crisis is a contributing editor. RECENT BOOKS O. G. Villard--John Brown; a Biography, Fifty Years After. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Lindsay Swift--William Lloyd Garrison. G. W. Jacobs & Co. M. J. Moses--The Literature of the South. T. W. Crowell. T. Roosevelt--African Game Trails. Scribner. Herbert Ward--A Voice from the Congo. Scribner. J. A. Wright--Cuba. Macmillan. B. D. Comyn--Service and Sport in the Sudan. John Lane. C. H. Stogan--To Abyssinia. Lippincott. G. Lagden--The Basutos. Appleton. Duke of Mecklinburg--In the Heart of Africa. Cassell. H. L. Tangye--In the Torrid Soudan. Badger. B. L. P. Weale--The Conflict of Color. Macmillan. South African Folk Tales. Baker & Taylor. Handbook of the Interscholastic Athletic Association of the Middle Atlantic States. W. A. Joiner and E. B. Henderson. E. Dayrell--Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria. Longmans, Green & Co. Publications of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--No. 1, The Disfranchisement of Negroes, Rev. John Haynes Holmes; No. 2, Secondary and Higher Education in the South for Whites and Negroes, Dr. Horace Bumstead. Race Prejudice. Document No. 77, Republican Club, New York. H. W. Odum. Social and Mental Traits of the Negro. Columbia University. William Archer. Through Afro-America. Chapman & Hall. Sir Harry Johnston. The Negro in the New World. Methuen & Co. ------------------------------------------------------------------ _THE CRISIS ADVERTISER_ Marshall’s Hotel 127-129 West 53d Street Telephones 4693-4694 Columbus