to
figure out the extent to which the races were associated and the race
admixture which resulted from such contact.

Coming nearer to our day to take up the discussion of the Missouri
Compromise, the abolition agitation, and the constitutional debate on
slavery, Mr. Brawley shows his inability to develop his subject for he
merely draws a few facts first from one field and then from another to
fill out certain topics in the book without correlating them in such a
way that the reader may be able to interpret their meaning. He has
endeavored not to write a history but to summarize what other persons
are now publishing as selected topics in this field. In other words,
he has added to the unscientific history of the Negro, which has
hitherto appeared in the so-called text books on Negro history, facts
culled from various sources but so improperly used as not to develop
the subject.

The chapter on Liberia should have been incorporated into the
treatment of colonization or made a supplementary chapter in the
appendix of the book. Placed in the middle of the work, it has been
necessary to repeat certain facts which could have been stated
elsewhere once for all. The same is true of his treatment of the Negro
as a national issue, and of social progress, which he takes up the
second time as topics inadequately developed in the earlier stages of
the treatise. In his discussion of the Civil War, the Emancipation,
the Reconstruction, and the Negro in the new South, he says very
little which is new. Under the caption _The Vale of Tears_, he drifts
almost altogether into opinion as he does also in the case of the
_Negro in the New Age_ and the _Negro Problem_. Judging, then, from
the point of view of an historian, one must conclude that this work
does not meet any particular want and that so far as the history of
the Negro is concerned the publication of it will hardly result in any
definite good. Mr. Brawley does not know history.

_William Lloyd Garrison._ By JOHN JAY CHAPMAN. Moffat, Yard and
Company, New York, 1913. Pp. 278.

This is a revised edition of a work of a similar name by this author,
published in 1913 by Moffat, Yard and Company, New York. After having
written the first edition the author made further investigation and
had other reflections which led him to think and to see things from a
different angle. He was impressed, moreover, with the fact that, being
now further removed from the Civil War, pers