me to leave a
written record like these of Bishop Coppin and Chaplain Steward. For
anyone desirous of studying the history of the Negro in its various
ramifications, such works are indispensable.

_The Negro in Literature and Art._ By BENJAMIN BRAWLEY. Duffield
and Company, New York, 1921. Pp. 197.

This is a revised edition of Professor Brawley's work which appeared
in 1918. It follows the general outline of the first edition and sets
forth additional facts but not sufficient to justify this claim to
revision. The work is biographical, largely devoted to the narrative
of the careers of Phyllis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Charles W.
Chesnutt, W. E. B. Dubois, William Stanley Braithwaite, Frederick
Douglass, Booker Washington, Henry O. Tanner, Meta Warrick Fuller, and
Charles S. Gilpin. The unsatisfactory short sketch of Gilpin
constitutes the best claim of the work to that of a revised edition.

While this work does not show by historic or philosophical development
the evolution of the Negro mind as expressed in the achievements of
the race in literature and art, it has some value. To have a publisher
place before the public the sketches of so many prominent Negroes who
might otherwise remain unknown to the public is a service to be
appreciated. The world has too long considered the Negro a human
machine restricted to drudgery. Any successful effort, therefore, to
bring before the public from time to time the achievements of worthy
Negroes, although it may be a repetition of what may be well known to
the better informed few, must be welcomed as an undertaking having a
direct bearing on popularizing the record of a neglected seventh of
the population of the world.

Let us hope, however, that in the near future some other author,
grasping more correctly the needs of the time, may set forth in
literary form the interesting story of how history has been influenced
by the Negro during the various stages of the world's progress and
especially how the Negro of today functions efficiently in the life of
Europe and America. The public will welcome too a work treating the
eloquent appeals of Negro orators, the beautiful poetry voicing the
strivings of this oppressed group, and its peculiar philosophy of life
constructed while enduring the ordeal of racial proscription.

_The Free Negro in Maryland, 1634-1860._ By JAMES M. WRIGHT.
Longmans, Green and Company, New York; P. S. King and Son, Ltd.,