The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States

Edwin Arlington Robinson, in "Contemporary American Poets Series," announced for early publication by the Poetry Review Co., Cambridge, Mass.

Washington, Booker Taliaferro.

The Future of the American Negro. Small, Maynard & Co., Boston, 1899.

The Story of My Life and Work. Nichols & Co., Naperville, Ill., 1900.

Up from Slavery: An Autobiography. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1901.

Character Building. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1902.

Working With the Hands. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1904.

Putting the Most Into Life. Crowell & Co., New York, 1906.

Frederick Douglass (in American Crisis Biographies). Geo. W. Jacobs & Co., Philadelphia, 1906.

The Negro in the South (with W. E. B. DuBois). Geo. W. Jacobs & Co., Philadelphia, 1907.

The Negro in Business. Hertel, Jenkins & Co., Chicago, 1907.

The Story of the Negro. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1909.

My Larger Education. Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, N. Y., 1911.

The Man Farthest Down (with Robert Emory Park). Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, N. Y., 1912.

IIORIGINAL WORKS BY OTHER AUTHORS

Brown, William Wells:

Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States. Redpath, Boston, 1864 (first printed London, 1853).

Carmichael, Waverley Turner:

From the Heart of a Folk, and Other Poems. The Cornhill Co., Boston, 1917.

Douglass, Frederick:

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. Park Publishing Co., Hartford, Conn., 1881 (note also "Narrative of Life," Boston, 1846; and "My Bondage and My Freedom," Miller, New York, 1855).

Dunbar, Alice Moore (Mrs. Nelson):

The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1899. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence (edited). The Bookery Publishing Co., New York, 1914.

Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins:

Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects. Boston, 1854, 1856; also Merrihew & Son, Philadelphia, 1857, 1866 (second series), 1871.

Moses: A Story of the Nile. Merrihew & Son, Philadelphia, 1869. Sketches of Southern life. Merrihew & Son, Philadelphia, 1872.

Horton, George Moses:

The Hope of Liberty. Gales & Son, Raleigh, N. C., 1829 (note also "Poems by a Slave," bound with Poems of Phillis Wheatley, Boston, 1838).

Johnson, Georgia Douglas:

The Heart of a Woman, and Other Poems. The Cornhill Co., Boston, 1917.

Johnson, Fenton:

A Little Dreaming. Peterson Linotyping Co., Chicago, 1913.

Visions of the Dusk. Trachlenburg Co., New York, 1915.

Songs of the Soil. Trachlenburg Co., New York, 1916.

Johnson, James W.:

Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (published anonymously). Sherman, French & Co., Boston, 1912.

Fifty Years and Other Poems, with an Introduction by Brander Matthews. The Cornhill Co., Boston, 1917.

Margetson, George Reginald:

The Fledgling Bard and the Poetry Society. R. G. Badger, Boston, 1916.

McGirt, James E.:

For Your Sweet Sake. John C. Winston Co., Philadelphia, 1909.

Miller, Kelly:

Race Adjustment. The Neale Publishing Co., New York and Washington, 1908.

Out of the House of Bondage. The Neale Publishing Co., New York and Washington, 1914.

Whitman, Albery A.:

Not a Man and Yet a Man. Springfield, Ohio, 1877.

Twasinta's Seminoles, or The Rape of Florida. Nixon-Jones Printing Co., St. Louis, Mo., 1884.

Drifted Leaves. Nixon-Jones Printing Co., St. Louis, 1890 (this being a collection of two former works with miscellanies).

An Idyl of the South, an epic poem in two parts (Part I, The Octoroon; Part II, The Southland's Charms and Freedom's Magnitude). The Metaphysical Publishing Co., New York, 1901.

IIIBOOKS DEALING IN SOME MEASURE WITH THE LITERARY AND ARTISTIC LIFE OF THE NEGRO

Brown, William Wells:

The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements. Hamilton, New York, 1863.

Child, Lydia Maria:

The Freedman's Book. Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1865.

Cromwell, John W.:

The Negro in American History. The American Negro Academy, Washington, 1914.

Culp, D. W.:

Twentieth Century Negro Literature. J. L. Nichols & Co., Naperville, Ill., 1902.

Ellis, George W.:

Negro Culture in West Africa. The Neale Publishing Co., New York, 1914.

Fenner, Thomas P.:

Religious Folk-Songs of the Negro (new edition). The Institute Press, Hampton, Va., 1909.

Gregory, James M.:

Frederick Douglass the Orator. Willey & Son, Springfield, Mass., 1893 (note also "In Memoriam: Frederick Douglass," John C. Yorston & Co., Philadelphia, 1897).

Hatcher, William E.:

John Jasper. Fleming H. Revell Co., New York, 1908.

Holland, Frederic May:

Frederick Douglass, the Colored Orator. Funk & Wagnalls, New York, 1891 (rev. 1895).

Hubbard, Elbert:

Booker Washington in "Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers." The Roycrofters, East Aurora, N. Y., 1908.

Krehbiel, Henry E.:

Afro-American Folk-Songs. G. Schirmer, New York & London, 1914.

Pike, G. D.:

The Jubilee Singers. Lee & Shepard, Boston, 1873.

Riley, Benjamin F.:

The Life and Times of Booker T. Washington. Fleming H. Revell Co., New York, 1916.

Sayers, W. C. Berwick:

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Musician; His Life and Letters. Cassell & Co., London and New York, 1915.

Schomburg, Arthur A.:

A Bibliographical Checklist of American Negro Poetry. New York, 1916.

Scott, Emmett J., and Stowe, Lyman Beecher:

Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization. Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, N. Y. 1916 (note also Memorial Addresses of Dr. Booker T. Washington in Occasional Papers of the John F. Slater Fund, 1916).

Simmons, William J.:

Men of Mark. Geo. M. Rewell & Co., Cleveland, Ohio, 1887.

Trotter, James M.:

Music and Some Highly Musical People. Boston, 1878.

Williams, George W.:

History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. 2 vols. G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York and London, 1915.

IVSELECT LIST OF THIRTY-SIX MAGAZINE ARTICLES

(The arrangement is chronological, and articles of unusual scholarship or interest are marked *.)

* Negro Spirituals, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Atlantic, Vol. 19, p. 685 (June, 1867).

Plantation Music, by Joel Chandler Harris. Critic, Vol. 3, p. 505 (December 15, 1883).

* The Negro on the Stage, by Laurence Hutton. Harper's, Vol. 79, p. 131 (June, 1889).

Old Plantation Hymns, Hymns of the Slave and the Freedman, Recent Negro Melodies: a series of three articles by William E. Barton. New England Magazine, Vol. 19, pp. 443, 609, 707 (December, 1898, January and February, 1899).

Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt's Stories, by W. D. Howells, Atlantic, Vol. 85, p. 70 (May, 1900).

The American Negro at Paris, by W. E. Burghardt DuBois. Review of Reviews, Vol. 22, p. 575 (November, 1900).

Sojourner Truth, by Lillie Chace Wyman. New England Magazine, Vol. 24, p. 59 (March, 1901).

A New Element in Fiction, by Elizabeth L. Cary. Book Buyer, Vol. 23, p. 26 (August, 1901).

The True Negro Music and its Decline, by Jeannette Robinson Murphy. Independent, Vol. 55, p. 1723 (July 23, 1903).

Biographia – Africana, by Daniel Murray. Voice of the Negro, Vol. 1, p. 186 (May, 1904).

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, by William V. Tunnell. Colored American Magazine (New York), Vol. 8, p. 43 (January, 1905).

The Negro of To-Day in Music, by James W. Johnson. Charities, Vol. 15, p. 58 (October 7, 1905).

William A. Harper, by Florence L. Bentley. Voice of the Negro, Vol. 3, p. 117 (February, 1906).

Paul Laurence Dunbar, by Mary Church Terrell. Voice of the Negro, Vol. 3, p. 271 (April, 1906).

Dunbar's Best Book. Bookman, Vol. 23, p. 122 (April, 1906). Tribute by W. D. Howells in same issue, p. 185.

Chief Singer of the Negro Race. Current Literature, Vol. 40, p. 400 (April, 1906).

Meta Warrick, Sculptor of Horrors, by William Francis O'Donnell. World To-Day, Vol. 13, p. 1139 (November, 1907). See also Current Literature, Vol. 44, p. 55 (January, 1908).

Afro-American Painter Who Has Become Famous in Paris. Current Literature, Vol. 45, p. 404 (October, 1908).

* The Story of an Artist's Life, by H. O. Tanner. World's Work, Vol. 18, pp. 11661, 11769 (June and July, 1909).

Indian and Negro in Music. Literary Digest, Vol. 44, p. 1346 (June 29, 1912).

The Higher Music of Negroes (mainly on Coleridge-Taylor). Literary Digest, Vol. 45, p. 565 (October 5, 1912).

* The Negro's Contribution to the Music of America, by Natalie Curtis. Craftsman, Vol. 23, p. 660 (March, 1913).

Legitimizing the Music of the Negro. Current Opinion, Vol. 54, p. 384 (May, 1913).

The Soul of the Black (Herbert Ward's Bronzes). Independent, Vol. 74, p. 994 (May 1, 1913).

A Poet Painter of Palestine (H. O. Tanner), by Clara T. MacChesney. International Studio (July, 1913).

The Negro in Literature and Art, by W. E. Burghardt DuBois. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 49, p. 233 (September, 1913).

Afro-American Folksongs (review of book by Henry Edward Krehbiel). Nation, Vol. 98, p. 311 (March 19, 1914).

Negro Music in the Land of Freedom, and The Promise of Negro Music. Outlook, Vol. 106, p. 611 (March 21, 1914).

Beginnings of a Negro Drama. Literary Digest, Vol. 48, p. 1114 (May 9, 1914).

George Moses Horton: Slave Poet, by Stephen B. Weeks. Southern Workman, Vol. 43, p. 571 (October, 1914).

The Rise and Fall of Negro Minstrelsy, by Brander Matthews. Scribner's, Vol. 57, p. 754 (June, 1915).

The Negro in the Southern Short Story, by H. E. Rollins. Sewanee Review, Vol. 24, p. 42 (January, 1916).

H. T. Burleigh: Composer by Divine Right, and the American Coleridge-Taylor. Musical America, Vol. 23, No. 26 (April 29, 1916). (Note also An American Negro Whose Music Stirs the Blood of Warring Italy. Current Opinion, August, 1916, p. 100.)

The Drama Among Black Folk, by W. E. B. DuBois. Crisis, Vol. 12, p. 169 (August, 1916).

Afro-American Folk-Song Contribution, by Maud Cuney Hare. Musical Observer, Vol. 15. No. 2, p. 13 (February, 1917).

After the Play (criticism of recent plays by Ridgely Torrence), by "F. H." New Republic, Vol. 10, p. 325 (April 14, 1917).

THE END

1

As stated in the Preface, we are under obligations to Dodd, Mead & Co. for permission to use the quotations from Dunbar. These are covered by copyright by this firm, as follows: "Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes," "The Poet and his Song," and "Life," 1896; "Lullaby," 1899; and "Compensation," 1905.

2

Reported by A. B. Hart, in "Slavery and Abolition," 209.

3

Quoted from "Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence," 314-5.

4

"Frederick Douglass," 107-8.

5

Quoted from Williams, II, 435-6.

6

Quoted from Foreword in "In Memoriam: Frederick Douglass."

7

Quoted from "Story of My Life and Work," 165-6.

8

Quoted from "Story of My Life and Work," 210-11.

9

This account of Coleridge-Taylor is based largely, but not wholly, upon the facts as given in Grove's Dictionary of Music (1910 edition, Macmillan). The article on the composer ends with a fairly complete list of works up to 1910.

10

Crisis, October, 1912.

11

Washington: "The Story of the Negro," II, 276-7.