The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-02-09
NEW BOOKS.

NEW BOOKS.
We received recently from Small,
Maynard g. Co.. copy OF "The Fu-
ture of the American Negro by
Booker T. Washington, President of
Tuskegee Institute, and the great
apostle of Industrial Education for
the negro.
The author starts out with the tru-
ism, that the negro race had no need
for labor in it's original barbaric
home; that after being brought here
they were forced to labor for 250 years
under conditions which inspired no
respect for work. Then he insists
that industrial education is the foun-
dation of the civilization upon which
the black man will grow and prosper.
OF course the authors idea is that
scholastic and religious training must
go hand in hand with the industrial
development. On the whole the au-
thors outlook for the future of the
colored people is optimistic. He
shows clearly that the solution of the
future of our negro citizen must be an
adjustment of the relations of the two
races here, and that it is slowly TAX
ing on more desirable phases.
After a sojourn in Europe, and an
attempt to make an unprejudiced study
of the question OF the return of the
black people to Africa, the author
pronounces it wholly impractical, as
no opportunity is presented in Africa
for self-government or self-develop-
ment He says England, France and
Germany are having a race to see
which can gobble up the greatest part
of Africa. That old King Cetawayo
put the thing pretty we'll, when.he said
s'First come missionary, then come
rum, theu come army"
He also holds Cecil Rhodes direct
ly responsible for the killing OF thou
sands of blacks in Africa in order to
secure their land.
The book is we'll written, unpreju-
diced, humane treatment of the negro
question, and deserves the thoughtful
consideration of thinkers all over our
country. Published by Small, May
nard & Co. Beacon ST. Boston, Mass.
Price 81. so.
Living as we do so far away from
good Kindergartens our mothers and
teachers, especially those doing pri-
mary work, welcome with Joy any book
that helps toward an understanding
of child nature.
To those Interested in little ones, a
new book, ''Two Children of the Foot
hills" by Elizabeth Harrison, Princi-
pal of the Chicago Kindergarten Col
lege, will fairly illuminate the child
mind. The book shows how through
the daily trivial experiences of their
little lives. that seem so commonplace
to many q mother, children may be
led into the deeper emotions, deeds
aud thoughts, thereby laying their
own foundation for n spiritual life.
The story is OF two California chill
dren, near whom two kindergartners
lived for year. The children had liv-
ed lonely lives. and when Froebel's 8
mother play was given them it found
q rich soil for the fruiting of it's beau
tifui ideals. Their application of its
thought to everything around them in
nature, shows how fondly the child
clings to its world of immaginatio on,
and if we can only give it pure mental
food and right ideals it will develop
along fine lines.
In addition to the story, the book
contains two of Miss Harrison >
strongest lectures, ''rhe Science of
Motherhood, and Ideals Of Froe-
bells Mother Play hook" For sale
by Lillian Gray Jarvie, 276 South
Holman Ave-, Chicago, Ill. Price
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