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will, therefore, attract some attention. It is chiefly valuable for
the discussion which it will arouse rather than for the information
given. It is an unscientific compilation of facts collected from a few
sources by a man who has devoted some time to the study of the Negro
but just about enough to misunderstand the race. His chief shortcoming
consists in his misinformation. For scientific purposes the book has
no value.

In the beginning of the work there is a discussion of mixed blood
races in the old world, concluding with a treatment of the same in the
West Indies and America. Considering the mulatto the key to the race
problem in America, Mr. Reuter undertakes to show the extent of race
mixture, its nature and growth. He discusses the intermarriage of the
races, unlawful polygamy, intermarriage with Indians, intermixture
during slavery and concubinage of black women with white men. He seems
to know nothing of the numerous facts easily accessible in various
works, which show that during slavery there was also a concubinage of
white women with black men. In the next place, the author treats the
Negro of today, depending mainly on a few unreliable sources of
information such as the proceedings of certain Negro conventions, a
Negro newspaper and the few books specially devoted to Negro history.
In this it appears that he does not know that the chief sources of
Negro history are not books bearing such titles, for the history of
the race has not yet been written.

Mr. Reuter's conclusions are fundamentally wrong for the two reasons
that he does not know who the mulattoes are and, although taking
cognizance of the fact that science has uprooted the idea of racial
inferiority, he is loath to abandon the contention that the mulatto
is superior to the Negro. For example, in his chapter on leading men
of the Negro race, in which he specifies whether they are blacks or
mulattoes, he has classified as mulattoes a large number of Negroes
who have practically no evidences of white blood and are commonly
referred to throughout the country as the blacks of the Negro race.
The title of the book, therefore, should not be _The Mulatto_ but _The
Negro_. It would then establish nothing as it does. Upon the careers
of these black persons he has supported his theories as to the
superiority of the mulatto. This encourages him, therefore, to
intimate that because of their proximity to the racial characteristics
of the white race they