Although this report goes as far back as 1790 most of the facts herein assembled bear on the life of the Negro since emancipation. This is not due, however, to the tendency to neglect the early period, but to the fact that earlier in our history statistics concerning Negroes were not considered valuable. It is only recently that public officials have directed attention to the importance of keeping these records and in many parts of the South certain statistics regarding Negroes are not yet considered worth while. The United States Government, however, as this volume indicates, has taken this matter seriously and from such volumes as this the public will expect more valuable information. NOTES To increase our circulation and the membership of the Association the management has employed as Field Agent Mr. J. E. Ormes, formerly connected with the business department of Wilberforce University. Mr. Ormes will appoint agents to sell books and solicit subscriptions to the JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY. He will also organize clubs for the study of Negro life and history. Any five persons desiring to prosecute studies in this field intensively may organize a club and upon the payment of two dollars each will be entitled not only to receive free of further charge the JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY, but may call on the Director for such instruction as can be given by mail. Members will be supplied with a quarterly outline study of the current numbers of the JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY and with a topical outline of the contents of the back numbers. Clubs will be left free to work out their own organization and plans. The management, however, follows the plan of a group working under the simplest restrictions. There should be elected a president, a secretary, a treasurer, and an instructor. The last named official should be the most intelligent and the best informed member of the group. * * * * * E. Payen's _Belgique et Congo_ and P. Daye's _Les Conquetes Africaniques des Belge_ have been published by Berger-Levrault in Paris. The Cornhill Publishing Company has brought out _Twenty-five Years in the Black Belt_ by W. J. Edwards. P. A. Means has published through Marshall Jones _Racial Factors in a Democracy_. The following significant articles have appeared in recent numbers of periodicals: _The Worth of an African_, by R. Keable in the July number of the International Review of Missions; _How Germany treats the Natives_ by Evans Lewis and M. Montgomery-Campbell; _Germany and Africa_ by Ethel Jollie in the June number of the United Empire; _International Interference in African Affairs_ by Sir. H. H. Johnson in the April number of the Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law; _The Native Question in British East Africa_ in the April number of the Contemporary Review; and _The Christian Occupation of Africa_ in the Proceedings of the African Conference. THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY