Mr. Miles Mark Fisher who contributed to the last issue of THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY the valuable dissertation and documents bearing on the career of Lott Cary and who has written two other valuable works, _The History of the Olivet Baptist Church_ and _The Master's Slave_, has been appointed an instructor at the Virginia Union University, Richmond, Virginia. Mr. Luther P. Jackson, a graduate of Fisk University, who specialized at Columbia in History and Education leading to the degree of Master of Arts, and who contributes to the current number of THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY the dissertation entitled _The Educational Efforts of the Freedmen's Bureau and Freedmen's Aid Societies in South Carolina, 1862-1872_, has been appointed an instructor in the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, Petersburg, Virginia. The Macmillan Company has published _A Boys' Life of Booker T. Washington_ by W. C. Jackson, Vice President of the North Carolina College for Women, Greensboro, and Professor of History. The A. B. Caldwell Publishing Company, Atlanta, Georgia, has brought out an autobiography, _Echoes from a Pioneer Life_ by Jared Maurice Arter, an instructor in Storer College, Harpers Ferry, West Va. From the University of Chicago Press there has come another interesting volume on the Negro. This is entitled _The Negro Press in the United States_ by Frederick G. Detweiler. Sir Harry H. Johnston, G. C. M. G., K. C. B., Sc.D., has published through Oxford at the Clarendon Press his second volume of _A Comparative Study of the Bantu and Semi-Bantu Languages_. THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NEGRO LIFE AND HISTORY The Association met in annual session on the 22d, 23d and 24th of November in Louisville, Kentucky. The day sessions were held at the Chestnut Street Branch Library and the evening sessions at the Quinn Chapel A. M. E. Church. The meeting was a success from both the local and national points of view. Persons from afar came to take an active part and the citizens of Louisville and nearby cities of Kentucky attended in considerable numbers. The meeting was opened at eight o'clock Wednesday evening at the Chestnut Street Branch Library with a stereopticon lecture on the History of the Negro by Dr. A. Eugene Thomson, principal of Lincoln Institute, Lincoln Ridge, Kentucky. This lecture covered the early history of the Negro in Egypt and Ethiopia with illustrations of the historic monuments exhibiting the progress of the natives in architecture and the fine arts. There followed an informing discussion of the importance of the study of this particular part of the past of the dark races.