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"Out of the House of Bondage" The latest and greatest book from the pen of PROFESSOR KELLY MILLER "No man of his race has so sure a power of prunning falacies with passionless intellectual severity." - Boston Transcript. "The man searches deeply into underlying causes." - St. Joseph, Mo., News-Press. "A philosophic treatise." - Charlotte, N. C., Observer. "No student of social conditions of America at the present time will want to fail to see it on his shelves." - Southern Workman. 242 Pages. Price $1.50. Agents Wanted Everywhere Address: Prof. Kelly Miller, Howard University Washington, D.C. HAZEL The Story of a Little Colored Girl By MARY WHITE OVINGTON Author of "Half a Man" Price $1.00 net. Postage Extra For sale through our agents and at THE CRISIS office, as well as at leading book stores. THE CRISIS, 70 Fifth Ave., New York City Mention THE CRISIS THE CRISIS A RECORD OF THE DARKER RACES PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, AT 70 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY Conducted by W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS AUGUSTUS GRANVILLE DILL, Business Manager Contents Copyrighted, 1914, by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Contents for December, 1914 PICTURES COVER PICTURE, "ANNUNCIATION." Photograph from life. By C. M. Battey. Page COLORED STUDENTS IN "THE TEMPEST"..........60 THE PARADOX................................68 THE ADORATION OF THE KINGS. After Jan Gossart of Mabuse................................78-79 (Reproductions for sale.) ARTICLES THE CHRISTMAS PRAYERS OF GOD. A Poem........83 CONGRESSMEN AND THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE...........85 THE DEBTOR. A Story. By Maynard Holbrook Jackson.....................................89 SCIENCE AND RACE. By Jacques Loeb..........92 DEPARTMENTS ALONG THE COLOR LINE........................59 MEN OF THE MONTH............................65 OPINION.....................................69 EDITORIAL...................................76 N. A. A. C. P. NOTES........................87 THE BURDEN..................................94 TEN CENTS A COPY; ONE DOLLAR A YEAR FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS TWENTY-FIVE CENTS EXTRA RENEWALS: When a subscription blank is attached to this page a renewal of your subscription is desired. The date of the expiration of your subscription will be found on the wrapper. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: The address of a subscriber can be changed as often as desired. In ordering a change of address, both the old and the new address must be given. Two weeks' notice is required. MANUSCRIPTS and drawings relating to colored people are desired. They must be accompanied by return postage. If found unavailable they will be returned. Entered as Second-class Matter in the Post Office at New York, N. Y.