being repelled by the mistress. At the next house
he learned the cause of her irritation--her only daughter had just
given birth to a Negro babe. After making diligent inquiry he failed
to find another such instance in high life, but in South Carolina
districts where the black population was densest and the poor whites
most degraded 'these unnatural unions were more frequent than anywhere
else' (III, 29). In every case, however, he says it was a woman of the
lowest class, generally a sand-hiller, who, deprived of her support by
the war, took up with a likely 'nigger' in order to save her children
from famine." "He found six such marriages in South Carolina," says
Calhoun, "but never more than one in any other State." The author has
not exhausted this phase of the family, for the reviewer might add
that he knew of four cases of concubinage of white women and black men
in Buckingham County, Virginia, during the eighties.

On the whole progress toward the elimination of miscegenation by
interracial respect and good will to furnish a barrier is seen as in
the cases of Oberlin and Berea, where coeducation of the races did not
lead to intermarriage. The author refers to the efforts of some
States outside of the South attempting to check miscegenation by
statute, but shows the folly of such legislation in proving that in
general where intermarriage of the races is still permitted very
little occurs. Referring to the statutes of the States prohibiting
marriage between the whites and the blacks (III, 38), he says: "The
necessity for such legislation calls in question the supposed
antipathy between the races, unless the intention is merely to guard
against the aberrancy of atypical individuals." "The laws," says he,
"are of dubious justice and clearly work hardships in certain cases."

The work on the whole is interesting and valuable although the author
sometimes goes astray in paying too much attention to biased writers
like W. H. Thomas and H. W. Odum who have taken it upon themselves to
vilify and slander the Negro race.

NOTES

To facilitate the study of Negro history in clubs and schools, Dr. C.
G. Woodson has prepared an illustrated text-book entitled _The Negro
in our History_. It has been sent to the publishers and is expected
from the press the first of the year. The book has a topical
arrangement but the matter is so organized as to show the evolution of
the Negro in America from the introduction of slavery