f the American
Colonization Society. Although only one chapter of the book is devoted
to this aspect of Mr. Latrobe's biography, it figured as largely in
his life as any other public interest. He said: "I cannot now recall
in order all that I did for it. It was the one thing then, and has
ever been the one thing outside of my lawyer's calling, to which I
have devoted myself." His biographer says that he spent about one
quarter of his working hours during ten years of his life in
advocating colonization. Dr. Daniel C. Gilman, President of Johns
Hopkins University, said at a meeting of the Maryland Historical
Society held in Latrobe's memory that "probably his greatest
distinction outside of his professional life was acquired in promoting
the cause of African colonization in ante-bellum days."

The author, however, instead of informing the reader as to what
Latrobe did for colonization, laments the failure of this enterprise
and endeavors to show that colonization or segregation in some form
must be the solution of the Negro problem. In the chapter mentioned
above he refers to this important work of Latrobe, not to set forth
what he actually accomplished in this field, but to give the author's
views. He proceeds to quote Thomas Jefferson, Henry Clay and Abraham
Lincoln, and finally Horace Grady and Bishop H. M. Turner on
colonization, with a view to convincing the reader that although Mr.
Latrobe's effort at colonizing the Negroes in Africa failed, it must
eventually be brought about since the two races will not happily live
together and then the great work of Latrobe will stand out as an
achievement rather than as a failure. This branching off into opinion
rather than into a scientific treatment of facts renders the biography
incomplete so far as it concerns one of the larger aspects of
Latrobe's life. The reader must, therefore, go to the papers of
Latrobe to trace his connection with colonization with a view to
determining exactly how largely this interest figured in the life of a
successful lawyer and business man and the extent to which he
interested the people throughout the country. The public will,
therefore, welcome a more scholarly biography of J. H. B. Latrobe.

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_The Mulatto in The United States._ By EDWARD BYRON REUTER. Richard G.
Badger, The Gorham Press, Boston, 1918. Pp. 417. Price $2.50 net.

This is the first work to deal especially with the people of color an