12 OCTOBER 1895, Page 11

The Son of Ham. By Louis Pendleton. (Sampson Low, Marston,

and Co.)—This story, hopefully inscribed to the African Colonisation Societies of the Future, " deals with the race- antipathies" and the " negro question" in general as the South of the present day has to deal with it. Mr. Pendleton is not a negrophile, by any means. Indeed, with the exception of some survivals of the days before the War, his negroes, male and female, are creatures to be avoided. Stories of this kind may do some service by calling attention in a forcible way to the facts of a difficult situation, but they are scarcely literature.