earlier and more primitive form of religion which is
revealed in it has been corrupted by the white race.

It is an interesting idea, but more interesting is the evidence that
it offers of the rise, among the Negro people of Haiti, of a racial
consciousness which embraces in one conscious unity the Negro peoples
of Africa and America. It is another spontaneous manifestation of that
unrest of the black man which has found expression in pan-Africanism
and in the movement in this country headed by Marcus Garvey, whose
program is Africa for the Africans.

ROBERT E. PARK
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

_The Wings of Oppression._ By LESLIE PINCKNEY HILL. The Stratford
Company, Publishers, Boston, Massachusetts. Price by mail, $2.15.

Bearing the certificate of the Lyric Muse, Mr. Leslie Pinckney Hill,
schoolmaster of Cheney, Pennsylvania, and authentic singer, is the
newest arrival on the slopes of Parnassus. A first glance tells that
he is an agile climber, sinewy, easy of movement, light of step, with
both grace and strength. Every indication in form and motion is for
some point far up toward the summit. Youthful is he, ambitious
plainly, and, in spite of a burden, buoyant. "Climber," I said. I will
drop the figure. Poets were never pedestrians. Mr. Hill comes not
afoot. If not on the wings of Pegasus, yet on wings he comes--_the
wings of oppression_. Sad wings! Yet it must be remarked that it is
commonly on such wings that poets of whatever race and time rise. And
Mr. Hill's race knows no other wings. On the wings of oppression the
Negro poet and the Negro people are rising toward the summits of
Parnassus, Pisgah, and other peaks. This they know, too, and of it
they are justly proud.

In his _Foreword_ Mr. Hill thus states the case of his people, and, by
implication, of himself:

"Nothing in the life of the nation has seemed to me more
significant than that dark civilization which the colored man has
built up in the midst of a white society organized against it.
The Negro has been driven under all the burdens of oppression,
both material and spiritual, to the brink of desperation, but he
has always been saved by his philosophy of life. He has advanced
against all opposition by a certain elevation of his spirit. He
has been made strong in tribulation. He has constrained
oppression to give him wings."

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