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Starretf school Tor tirisr IbicAKr, w
Philadelphia, Pa. J y. LippincDtt %.
Price, 81 net
There is nothing quite like this book
ia csistsnce. II j. lively reading Curb
ENJOY every page Of u. Ia Snting tho
book Mrs. Starrett has drawn from hff
many years 81 experience with young
girls ~ her school and elseyherc and has
prevented her VARIOUS subjects iB a nan
ner truly delightful and which appeal ~
every right-fninded girl Teachef and
parents will find % n great boon ~ cDvUf.
everything that ordinarily - such b
yexation IN a young girls deveioymeut
behavior and manners, self-cynffDl, Ut
culture, aims IN life, personal habita ~
ciety and conversation, aaeOciaifs and
friends, tact and unObtrusvenes 81
guette for school girls, aud that bnest
feminine art, the making u homo
Received II the publishers.
f'The Negro Paoes America By IIerierf
1 J. oelipnaD. New York City Har~r
! X BrOthers
u ~ doubtful whether Mr. Seligma1'H
contribution ~ the Negro problem" gili
go very far 10 solving ID. His wurk wna
melted by the recent sBrs ring 0upaesks
| Of race war IN Omaha, Chicago, Washing
ton and some other place., ard he detail
OF those uprising are dealt with % q man
Der 10 convey The impression hat IN each
instance the Negroes were entirely blame
lcss and the whites altOgetbcr A. iauii
To many pcrsons this conclusion B. ~
radically wrong a. are the Invanaflf
efforts Of the Dtber side ~ Prove that ~
whites ~ every Insthnce were iunoeerf
sufferers and the NezrDes violent agzTrs
gOrs
Mr. SeliEnnsn gn<s evGn " the eYfeut
Of placing large responsibility Tor ttf
violent race troubles that recently ravf
~ seriously DISTURBED the cOurtfy pm s
/ rabidiy partisan pre1 Probably therr
| come ground for ihm accusation in seffair
sections, but Mr. SeliguAn put faruarf
! blanket accusation that arcusrr s1frr
! Of the mort reputable and GrlgtW0rtrr
\ newspapers ~ the country n deiiferatclr
! distorting and Othersip nfgiandlng
I theii news IN order 20 incite feciinu M
I hatred against the Negruer The AsEr
/ cistad Press, which many newgparseF uner
] know IL as absolutely far in ~ ~ grnrraI
I news service AZ Il ~ nm -Tpr'izln IN rs
I political reporting. come IN i0y ftr
/ ceDsurc The Negro. ler0sding ~ W
l Seligrnan 1Isgr ~ IN hIs INK 1aa
\ been sternotyp~d N The p>fhhr mind 4.
I criminal and degenerate. and has there
fore heroine q proper objact - fear and
hatred with which ~ pisy upon tlf
4 irnaginstions a nlnnforrna-i eiey-f0aaae
I u will 10 the work - years ~ undo ~
Y poisonous and snti-so~isJ sccoruplI.hrns-lfs
I n such Organs AZ The Omaha isee thp
I Washington Post, nc Cbicago kyening
( Poet, the Neu York TIrns@. in fa-rf. thr
Z majority n American nexspspsrs
Now. thIs AnInadvers son n altoVetber
d ri nrrAx~S.v-xa-A ell -
I denied the Negro has hssr, ms.re far tno
7 much q victim ~ osrrrs>o~, Oppresseos Anr
f, rank injustice, ha~ bs-~D rDbtssr md mai
4 treated. But tfs-r~ IRE many oonpsrsInItlns
( IN which NeUo~s are veil and iGriF
I treated and many others an ~rlrh tier
\ have brought upon thcus-eiv>~ al the
! odium that r. visited upon them. -
/ problem n nor 70 be solved bv sny partisan
7 assertions aimed AZ throwing the en1lrr
I blame for unfortunate and disturbing re-
! suits entirely upon one SIDE ~ the cthfr
Mr.. Selignan SAVE the cy-s " frf
! Negro have been opened BY hIs paTuci
( patton IN the ate var, ana, new
I emauicipated from alliance upon 90
( white savior. srzncs ready - maze rIs
, unique contribution 20 what may some
Y time become American civilization
Whether this r a prophecy 0r an sl
sidious threat IS left 70 the IMAGINATION
! Received Of the publishers
Children in the Mist Bv cory
Madden Martin. New York City ia
Appleton * Co Price. Sl75. net.
Children in the MIST are me Negrns,
whom the white man mas brought here
the white man VINO shTrkeu the ra=Dou-
bility that this act 81 his lad upon llu
The tales mere gathered together present
chronological continuity. covering ~.
time from the emancipation 90 the Negr
down 70 he rres..nt N tha. n-rflLrl ~