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To increase our circulation and the membership of the Association the management has employed as Field Agent Mr. J. E. Ormes, formerly connected with the business department of Wilberforce University. Mr. Ormes will appoint agents to sell books and solicit subscriptions to the Journal of Negro History. He will also organize clubs for the study of Negro life and history.

Any five persons desiring to prosecute studies in this field intensively may organize a club and upon the payment of two dollars each will be entitled not only to receive free of further charge the Journal of Negro History, but may call on the Director for such instruction as can be given by mail. Members will be supplied with a quarterly outline study of the current numbers of the Journal of Negro History and with a topical outline of the contents of the back numbers.

Clubs will be left free to work out their own organization and plans. The management, however, follows the plan of a group working under the simplest restrictions. There should be elected a president, a secretary, a treasurer, and an instructor. The last named official should be the most intelligent and the best informed member of the group.

E. Payen's Belgique et Congo and P. Daye's Les Conquetes Africaniques des Belge have been published by Berger-Levrault in Paris.

The Cornhill Publishing Company has brought out Twenty-five Years in the Black Belt by W. J. Edwards.

P. A. Means has published through Marshall Jones Racial Factors in a Democracy.

The following significant articles have appeared in recent numbers of periodicals: The Worth of an African, by R. Keable in the July number of the International Review of Missions; How Germany treats the Natives by Evans Lewis and M. Montgomery-Campbell; Germany and Africa by Ethel Jollie in the June number[Pg 238] of the United Empire; International Interference in African Affairs by Sir. H. H. Johnson in the April number of the Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law; The Native Question in British East Africa in the April number of the Contemporary Review; and The Christian Occupation of Africa in the Proceedings of the African Conference.

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