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Title: Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading
A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions
that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every
race-loving man, woman, and child.

Author: Various

Release Date: August 6, 2007 [EBook #22256]

Language: English

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[Illustration: AS IT ONCE WAS--THE LIFE OF A SLAVE.]

SPARKLING GEMS
OF
RACE KNOWLEDGE WORTH READING.

A COMPENDIUM OF VALUABLE INFORMATION AND WISE
SUGGESTIONS THAT WILL INSPIRE NOBLE EFFORT AT
THE HANDS OF EVERY RACE-LOVING
MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD.

ILLUSTRATED WITH SUPERB HALF-TONE ENGRAVINGS.

COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY
JAMES T. HALEY.

SOLD BY SUBSCRIPTION,
PRICE, $1.25.

"_Give attendance to reading._" (_1 Tim. iv. 13._)

"_No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding
them with good books. A book is better than sleep for weariness._"
(_Henry Ward Beecher._)

NASHVILLE, TENN.:
J. T. HALEY & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
1897.

DEDICATION.

_To every Son and Daughter of the Race,
whose noble aspirations are to do good and be good,
This Little Volume Is Dedicated
By the Compiler._

COPYRIGHT, 1897, BY J. T. HALEY & COMPANY.

PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT.

If, as Lord Bacon says, "reading makes a full man," then it behooves
every one who has any aspirations to read.

The negro is just passing, as it were, through the gateway that enters
upon life's great work, and the publishers of this little volume are
anxious to see our "brother in black" develop, both from an
intellectual and a moral standpoint, and are ready to do what they can
to stimulate the race on to still greater achievements than they have
ever before accomplished. In launching "Sparkling Gems" we are simply
putting forth to the world what we hope may, in some measure, instruct
and encoura