Total taxes. Per cent. of whole. White $1,769,576.06 91.7 Colored 163,175.67 8.3 ————————————— ————— Total $1,959,751.73 100.0 The U. S. Census for 1890 shows the population of Virginia to be as follows: White 1,015,123 = 61.3% Colored 640,857 = 38.7% ————————— —————— Total 1,655,980 = 100.0% Thus showing that while the Negroes comprise nearly four-tenths of the population, they furnish less than one-tenth of the amount expended on public schools. The number of Public Schools for the year 1898-90 was White 5,358 Colored 2,153 ————— 7,511 The total cost of Public Schools for the year 1889-90 was $1,604,508.80 The cost of Negro Schools for the same year was about 420,000.00 Now, if we use the percentages on preceding pages and allow all the taxes paid by Negroes (on both personal and real property) to go into the School Fund, we will see that there was a deficit of $256,824.33 to be made up from the taxes paid by white people, or, in other words, the total amount of taxes on personal and real property paid by the Negroes will cover less than half the expense of their schools alone. By THOMAS NELSON PAGE BRED IN THE BONE Illustrated, $1.50 “A book to be thoroughly enjoyed.”—_Literary World._ “In Mr. Page’s best vein.”—_Washington Star._ “He belongs to the Old Virginia quality; he knows the life of the people; he knows the negro and renders his dialect perfectly; he has an eye for the picturesque, the poetic, and the humorous; and his style shows exquisite taste and skill.”—_Nashville American._ GORDON KEITH Illustrated by George Wright 12mo, $1.50 “Since the publication of ‘Red Rock’ Mr. Page has given us nothing so important as ‘Gordon Keith,’ a novel of serious purpose and generous dimensions, crowded with actors and full of incident.... It is a strong, sincere, and deeply interesting novel of character and of manners as well.”—HAMILTON W. MABIE, in _The Outlook_. BOOKS BY MR. PAGE RED ROCK A Chronicle of Reconstruction Illustrated by B. West Clinedinst 12mo, $1.50 “One of the most satisfactory works of fiction that the South has ever produced. On all this crowded canvas there is not a figure that is not drawn from the life, and given character by sympathy or insight into motive.”—_The Dial._ THE OLD GENTLEMAN OF THE BLACK STOCK With 8 colored illustrations by H. C. Christy 12mo, $1.50 “This is not only one of the most characteristic and charming of Mr. Page’s studies of Virginia character, but it is a story which readily lends itself to illustration, and especially to the kind of decorative illustration which Mr. Christy has given it.”—_The Outlook._ IN OLE VIRGINIA Marse Chan, and Other Stories 12mo, $1.25