other until it will become a habit and
the strong shall prevail over the weak, and the man who slays
his brother shall be regarded as the incarnation of
power."--_The Charleston News and Courier._

6. Since the recent defeat of the ultra radical element in the national
campaign, there has been a marked improvement as to the more violent
manifestations of race prejudice, emphasizing the fact that actual
political power can procure respect.

7. It must never be concluded by those interested in these matters that
the mere suppression of mob violence approaches a solution of the race
problem. The programme of the Negro race, that must be ever kept in mind
as a factor to be dealt with, is the obtaining of all the rights and
privileges accorded by the State to other American citizens.

8. Acknowledgment is here made of the generous aid often extended the
Negro race in its efforts to rise by the liberal element among the
whites of the South. One of the most notable achievements of this
element has been the manner in which they have fought off the attacks of
the repressionists, directed against the education of the Negroes in the
public school systems of the South, so amply provided for by the
"Reconstruction" Governments.

9. The overwhelmingly predominant sentiment of the American Negroes is
to fight out their battles on these shores. The assigning of the
thoughts of the race to the uplift of Africa, as affecting the situation
in America, must be taken more as the dream of the author rather than as
representing any considerable responsible sentiment within the race,
which, as has been stated, seems at present thoroughly and unqualifiedly
American, a fact that must never be overlooked by those seeking to deal
with this grave question in a practical manner.

THE AUTHOR.

NOTES TO THE THIRD EDITION.

1. The present edition of "The Hindered Hand" differs from previous
editions in that a review of Mr. Thomas Dixon's "Leopard Spots" appears
in former editions in the form of a conversation between two of the
characters of the book, whereas in the present edition the review is
more fully given in an article appearing in the rear of this book after
the closing of the story.

No attempt is here made to deal with Mr. Dixon's second book bearing on
the race problem, it being the hope of the writer to give that matter
serious and independent attent