The Plantation Negro as a Freeman. By Philip A. Bruce.
(G: P. Putnam's Sons.)—This tractate belongs to the series entitled " Questions of the Day." We cannot pretend to judge of the accuracy of Mr. Bruce's conclusions. These conclusions, we may say generally, are not hopeful. The Negro is not a good subject, either morally or politically. Some parts of the chapter on " The Negro and the Criminal Law" are very painful reading indeed. The same remark, indeed, may be made, with modifications, of the whole book. " In the course of the next ten decades, American institutions will be subjected to a severer strain than they have yet endured, and one of the mcst important causes of this strain will be the evil influence which the Southern blacks will indirectly exercise on the national destiny." That does not sound hopeful.
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