pure, and questions Bennett's
remark that perhaps ladies are not immaculate, as may be inferred from
the occasional quadroon aspect of their progeny. He gives some weight,
however, to this remark of a southerner (II, 305-306): "It is
impossible that we should not always have a class of free colored
people, because of the fundamental law _partris sequitur ventrum_.
There must always be women among the lower class of whites, so poor
that their favors can be purchased by slaves. "The _Richmond Enquirer_
of 1855," says the author, "contains the news of a woman's winning
freedom for herself and five children by proving that her mother was a
white woman." While Lyell found scarcely any instances of mulattoes
born of a black father and a white mother, Olmsted, another traveler
who observed that white men sometimes married rich colored girls,
heard of a case of a colored man who married a white girl.

In the third and last volume, covering the period since 1865, the
author treats the white family in the new South, miscegenation, the
Negro family since emancipation, the new basis of American life, the
revolution in the woman's world, the woman in the modern American
family, the career of the child, the passing of patriarchism and
familiarism, the precarious hour, the trend as to marriage, race
sterility and race suicide, divorce, the attitude of the church, the
family, and the social revolution. The author finds that during the
past half century the American family possesses unity, due to the fact
that the period itself is marked by intrinsic oneness as the
expression of an economic epoch, the transition to urban
industrialism. If any exception to this statement be made it would
insist on a subdivision with the line falling within the decade of the
eighties when the country was passing beyond the direct influences of
the war and modern industrialism was well under way.

Taking up the Negro family since the Civil War, the author shows how
difficult it was to uproot the immorality implanted by slavery but
notes the steady progress of the _mores_ of the freedmen despite their
poverty. Colored women continued the prey of white men and it was
difficult to raise a higher standard. There appeared few cases of the
miscegenation of the white women with black men but here and there it
would recur. "Stephen Powers, who passed through the South shortly
after the War, tells of applying for lodging at a lordly mansion in
South Carolina and