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102   THE CRISIS ADVERTISER

The African Abroad or His Evolution in Western Civilization
By WILLIAM H. FERRIS, A. M.
Two volumes of 500 pages each, illustrated. $5 a set, plus 30c. postage.
Published by the Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, Conn.

PRESS COMMENTS

FROM THE "SCHOOL JOURNAL," OCTOBER, 1913

"There come occasionally from the press, books of weight and moment, works of research and investigation or of wide reading and of clear thought, treatises from which the world of culture never recovers. Such is 'The African Abroad,' distinctly radical in its treatment, distinctly revolutionary in its result, and altogether true as a whole in content and in expression. The Afro-American must put on the spiritual clothing of the Anglo-American, must live his institutional life, must think and feel accordingly. From Africa came every Afro-European race. The Ethiopians and the Negroes are descendants of the same stock as the Latins and Teutons, a proposition beyond censure and cavil. As one reads these great pages of a faithful investigator and witness one must regret that the author in common decency could not include among colored Americans thousands as have 'crossed the line upon the same level as white men. This is not to say one word in favor of social equality in marriage. In truth the whole weight of this monumental work rests upon the side of the scale whereon are written these words: 'The colored man, as such, remaining true to whatever amalgamation he now represents, can become equal sharer with the white man in American liberty.' Such a book tends to develop in Afro-Americans that self-respect which is essential to human worth. The author reveals a charming style and an interesting personality. This admirable work of race historical philosophy is of epochal importance and belongs in every library of scholarship anywhere in the world."

FROM THE NEW BEDFORD "STANDARD," SEPTEMBER 30, 1913

"Six thousand years of history as related to the Negro race and the summing up of his careers of a thousand exceptional men of color in many countries of Europe, in Africa, and the West Indies, is a plain prosaic statement of the scope of William H. Ferris's two-volume book on 'The African Abroad, or His Evolution in Western Civilization, Tracing His Development Under Caucasian Milieu. 'If this title, formal and scholarly, suggests a scholarly treatment of the subject, really profound and tremendously in earnest, it suggests truly, for it is a deep and precise study in all the prospects of importance of the subject. But if the formal title suggests any thought of dry reading, there begins the mistake, for Mr. Ferris's book is as interesting as romance and as stirring as the most appealing piece of history ever written.

"Mr. Ferris is pre-eminently fitted for his task. He is recognized by scholars and statesmen as a man of unusual intellectual ability measured by standards of scholarship and not by race or color. He has taken degrees at Yale and Harvard; and he has since then gained the knowledge and experience that have come from travel through twenty States and sojourning in over two hundred cities and towns, looking into the Negro question as it presents itself as a live problem to-day, and from study of the literature of the world on the subjects of the Negro back to its beginning."

FROM THE SPRINGFIELD "REPUBLICAN," OCTOBER 1, 1913

"And now we have at New Haven a philosophical writer who has profited by a good university education, and publishes two volumes of mixed speculation - history and biography - extending in its scope from the councils of the Absolute before worlds existed, and thereafter from the undifferentiated star-dust through differentiated worlds, down not only to our modern days, but beyond; by an excursion into the future we contemplate the burning out of the sun, and the consequent starvation of the whole solar system. * * *
"* * * In this world's affairs, Mr. Ferris has good testimonials as to his competence for writing the story of his race. * * *

"* * * In history he is well read and pacific; he admires T. R., but not excessively; and he states his case in history very forcibly. A few flaws can be found by searching, but hardly more than any book in two volumes can show. There is to be a third volume, in which the never-ending subject is to be temporarily concluded. * * *

"* * * The important thing with the Negro, as with other men, is his religion. On that point Mr. Ferris has much to say, and says it well; but perhaps with too little reference to the modifying American religion of the colored race here. * * *

"* * * It will be seen that Mr. Ferris writes easily and fluently. He quotes freely but without much system in his citations; has read immensely and thought sufficiently; flatters in his biographies and brief notes; and when his work is completed and indexed, it will be of great value."

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