-syllabics of sententious felicity; various apt lyrical stanzas.
Culture alone, of which there is abundant evidence, could not have
produced these poems. The poetic endowment, thoroughly disciplined,
was necessary. Mr. Leslie Pinckney Hill is a poet. His powers are
rich, varied, and developing. His second book will be better than this
excellent first.

But more than the merit that has been intimated there is in these
lyrics and measured musings a pathos, a restrained Laocooen cry, that
must be to thousands an arresting revelation of the unimagined
sufferings of the cultured colored people of our land. Mr. Hill's
_Wings of Oppression_ has a message in it for America.

ROBERT T. KERLIN
LEXINGTON, VA.

NOTES.

By aiding the education of Negroes in rural communities with the
assistance of State governments and of Negroes themselves Mr. Julius
Rosenwald has been making an important chapter in the history of this
race during the last generation. The significance of this achievement
is apparent when one merely glances at these statistics:

1223 buildings (2812 teachers).

Total Cost $4,012,923
Negroes $1,139,165
Whites 277,668
Public Funds 1,840,210
Rosenwald aid 755,880

These schoolbuildings have been built in the States as follows:
Alabama 234, North Carolina 175, Mississippi 145, Louisiana 136,
Tennessee 114, Virginia 105, South Carolina 73, Arkansas 54, Georgia
53, Kentucky 52, Texas 50, Maryland 16 and Oklahoma 15.

By types these buildings include:

357 one-teacher
464 two-teacher
191 three-teacher
106 four-teacher
39 five-teacher
32 six-teacher
5 seven-teacher
5 eight-teacher
1 nine-teacher
2 ten-teacher
1 eleven-teacher
1 twelve-teacher
1 sixteen-teacher
18 Teachers' Homes
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1223

The fact that over $4,000,000 has been invested in these buildings is
worthy of comment as is the added fact that more than one-fourth of
this large total has been raised by the Negroes themselves. While the
figures are of buildings which have been actually completed, it is
well to note that there are in progress now, some of them nearly
finished and all of them to be finished before June 30, 1922, other
buildings which will increase the total to 1500, will show a total
outlay of $5,500,000, will bring the total