All the pleasance of her face Telleth of an inward grace; In her dark eyes I have seen Sorrows of the Nazarene; In the proud and perfect mould Of her body I behold, Rounded in a single view, The good, the beautiful, the true; And when her spirit goes up-winging On sweet air of artless singing, Surely the heavenly spheres rejoice In union with a kindred voice. _The Wings of Oppression_ strikes a high level of artistic expression and makes a quite extraordinary appeal. It is intense poetry, lyrical and meditative. Here is that solid body of thought which, in addition to artistic expression, is requisite to poetry that attains and holds a high place of esteem. Great variety of form is also here; excellent blank verse with a movement at once easy and restrained, an equable, strong flow, bearing lofty meditations; sonnets after the manner of the masters; octo-syllabics of sententious felicity; various apt lyrical stanzas. Culture alone, of which there is abundant evidence, could not have produced these poems. The poetic endowment, thoroughly disciplined, was necessary. Mr. Leslie Pinckney Hill is a poet. His powers are rich, varied, and developing. His second book will be better than this excellent first. But more than the merit that has been intimated there is in these lyrics and measured musings a pathos, a restrained Laocooen cry, that must be to thousands an arresting revelation of the unimagined sufferings of the cultured colored people of our land. Mr. Hill's _Wings of Oppression_ has a message in it for America. ROBERT T. KERLIN LEXINGTON, VA. NOTES. By aiding the education of Negroes in rural communities with the assistance of State governments and of Negroes themselves Mr. Julius Rosenwald has been making an important chapter in the history of this race during the last generation. The significance of this achievement is apparent when one merely glances at these statistics: 1223 buildings (2812 teachers). Total Cost $4,012,923 Negroes $1,139,165 Whites 277,668 Public Funds 1,840,210 Rosenwald aid 755,880 These schoolbuildings have been built in the States as follows: Alabama 234, North Carolina 175, Mississippi 145, Louisiana 136, Tennessee 114, Virginia 105, South Carolina 73, Arkansas 54, Georgia 53, Kentucky 52, Texas 50, Maryland 16 and Oklahoma 15. By types these buildings include: 357 one-teacher 464 two-teacher 191 three-teacher 106 four-teacher 39 five-teacher 32 six-teacher 5 seven-teacher 5 eight-teacher 1 nine-teacher 2 ten-teacher 1 eleven-teacher 1 twelve-teacher 1 sixteen-teacher 18 Teachers' Homes ---- 1223