An important addition to the literature on the problems and history of the South by William Garrott Brown, has been published recently by the Macmillan Co. The volume consists of six interesting papers, from the first and most important of which the book is named. The substance of the first three papers has been given by the author in the form of public lectures at Harvard; the last three appeared in the Atlantic Monthly.

The most extensive paper treats of the conditions and problems of the lower South from 1820, how its political ideals and aspirations were formed, culminating in the final act of 1860, the secession of Virginia. The other papers touch in an interesting way on "The Orator of Secession," Benjamin Cudworth Yancey, "The Resources of the Confederacy" and "The Ku Klux Movement." The last two essays, "A New Hero of an Old Type" and "Shifting the White Man's Burden," treat more recent subjects; the former showing how the new South has contributed to our list of heroes in the war with Spain, the latter touching on the problem of the gradual disfranchisement of the southern negro.

"The Lower South in American History," by William Garrott Brown. New York. The Macmillan Co. Net $1.50.