investigation, in connection with social settlement work in the negro-section of Boston, and is vitally important in the light which it throws upon the growing civic problems which the increasing numbers of the negro and race prejudice are forcing upon the great urban centers of the country. Beginning with the significant services, rendered by the negro in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the book is replete with a wealth of carefully digested facts and information concerning the Boston negro's physical, economic, social, religious, moral and political progress. The disclosure of the author's remarkable insight and familiarity with so much inside data of negro life and character is partly explained by the author's acknowledged indebtedness to such intellectual colored leaders in Boston as William H. Lewis, Archibald H. Grike, William M. Trotter, Eliza Gardner and others mentioned. Some of the distinctive merits of the book are its historical and descriptive style, and the closeness with which the writer adheres to conclusions well founded in the facts. Its value is greatly enhanced by a number of biographical sketches of prominent negroes in Boston, statistical tables prepared from the census, and a very convenient index. Logically, the chapter dealing with the economic side of the subject should come nearer the front of the book, rather than near the end, since the economic life is a more decisive and determining factor in the other phases of social activity. Perhaps, the most serious criticism noted is the author's acceptance of the description of Southern reconstruction as given in the Encyclopædia Americana, by James Wilfred Garner, professor of political science in the University of Illinois. This statement of reconstruction is full of detail errors of fact, and the general view is so exaggerated as to amount to a gross misrepresentation of the historical situation, so ably set forth of Mississippi, by Major John R. Lynch in Facts of Reconstruction. In the author's conclusion his discussion of the causes of American race prejudice and the growing reasons for its ultimate decline are not only illuminating, but give hope and encouragement to the country for the solution of one of the most difficult and vexing problems confronting American culture and civilization. And in this thought, In Freedom's Birthplace is a valuable and scientific contribution to the sociological study of the American negro. GEORGE W. ELLIS. INDEX OF AUTHORS BINGHAM, HIRAM. Should We Abandon the Monroe Doctrine.... 334-358 461-470 BROWN, PHILIP MARSHALL. American Intervention in Central 409-426 CABRERA, LUIS. The Mexican Situation from a Mexican Point of 245-261 CALLAHAN, J. M. The Modern Meaning of the Monroe Doctrine. 359-369 Late Empress Dowager, Tze-Hsi... 1-33 tian Education in China.... 220-241 HARDING, EARL. In Justice to the United States-A Settlement 427-442 HART, ALBERT BUSHNELL. The Monroe Doctrine... 370-373 HOLLANDER, JACOB H. The Dominican Convention and Its Les- sons...... 398-408 HONDA, MASUJIRO. American and Japanese Diplomacy in China. 129-133 293-301 KUO, P. W. The Effect of the Revolution upon the Educational 72-85 LADD, GEORGE TRUMBULL. A Year of "Benevolent Assimilation". 374-380 471-489 NEEDHAM, CHARLES K. A Comparison of Some Conditions in Jamaica with those in the United States..... 189-203 REYNOLDS, S. W. The Mexican Situation.. 280-292 SHERRILL, CHARLES H. The Monroe Doctrine from a South Amer- 319-323 STORRS, CHARLES L. Moral and Spiritual Elements in the Chinese Revolution and in the Present Outlook..... 110-128 TSAO, Y. S. The Relation of the Returned Students to the Chinese 96-109 TUCKER, GEORGE F. The Monroe Doctrine. 324-333 WELLS, LESLIE C. The Present Situation in Mexico as Shaped by Past Events... 302-305 WILLIAMS, F. W. The Manchu Conquest of China... 152-167 WILLIS, BAILEY. The Physical Basis of the Argentine Nation... 443-460 uation in Mexico... WINTER, NEVIN O. The Fundamental Causes of the Present Sit- 262-279 YANES, FRANCISCO J. A Glance at Latin-American Civilization.. 381-397 34-57 YUI, C. VOONPING. Some Experience at the Seige of Nanking Dur- 86-95 NOTES AND REVIEWS BLOUNT, JAMES H. The American Occupation of the Philippines. 490-494 DANIELS, JOHN. In Freedom's Birthplace. George W. Ellis. 495-496 494-495 Agency. F. H. Hankins.. 242-244 |