The Works of William Sanders Scarborough : Black Classicist and Race Leader.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Military -- 1. The Negro as an Army Officer -- 2. From Spade to Sword -- Speeches -- 1. Our Political Status -- 2. Why I Am a Republican -- 3. The Party of Freedom and the Freedman-A Reciprocal Duty -- 4. The Negro Graduate-His Mission -- Journalism -- 1. Journalism and Colored Journalists -- 2. Journalism and Colored Journalists, No. II -- 3. Journalism and Colored Journalists, No. III -- Introductions to Books -- 1. Preface to William S. Scarborough, First Lessons in Greek -- 2. Introduction to Wesley J. Gaines, African Methodism in the South, or Twenty-Five Years of Freedom -- 3. Introduction to James Monroe Gregory, Frederick Douglass, the Orator -- 4. Introduction to Benjamin Tucker Tanner, The Color of Solomon-What? -- 5. Introduction to J. M. Conner, Doctrines of Christ, or The Teachings of Jesus -- 6. Introduction to Horace Talbert, The Sons of Allen -- Book Reviews -- 1. Review of Theophilus Gould Steward's My First Four Years in the Itineracy of the African Methodist Episcopal Church -- 2. Review of Daniel Payne's A Treatise on Domestic Education -- 3. Review of H. M.Turner's Genius and Theory of Methodist Polity -- 4. Hale on the Art of Reading Latin -- 5. Review of Benjamin Tucker Tanner's Dispensations in the History of the Church -- 6. Review of Booker T.Washington's The Future of the American Negro -- Obituaries -- 1. Bishop Payne as an Educator -- 2. Obituary of William Hayes Ward -- Biographies -- 1. Prof. Richard T. Greener: His Commendable Career and Claims to Recognition -- 2. Hon. Frederick Douglass: One of the Most Distinguished and Honored Citizens on the American Continent -- 3. Henry Ossian Tanner -- 4. Alexandre Dumas -- 5. Alexander Sergeivitch Pushkin, Part I -- 6. Alexander Sergeivitch Pushkin, Part II.

7. Roosevelt: The Man, the Patriot, the Statesman -- 8. Daniel Alexander Payne -- 9. The Poet Laureate of the Negro Race -- 10. Warren G. Harding: A Brand New President with the Old-Fashioned Belief "All Men Up and No Man Down" -- Travel Narratives -- 1. Vacation Notes: The Cesnola Collection -- 2. Summer Saunterings, No. II -- 3. Summer Saunterings, No. III -- 4. Summer Saunterings, No. IV -- 5. Summer Saunterings, Concluded -- Education in General -- 1. The Utility of Studying the Greek, part 1 -- 2. The Utility of Studying the Greek, part 2 -- 3. The True Aim of Education -- 4. Personal Influence: The President's Opening Address -- 5. What Should Be the Standard of the University, College, Normal School,Teacher Training and Secondary Schools -- Education of Blacks -- 1. Echoes from the South -- 2. Our Schools and Their Needs -- 3. The New South and Hampton's Part in It -- 4. The Negro and the Trades -- 5. The American Negro Academy -- 6. The Educated Negro and Menial Pursuits -- 7. Booker T.Washington and His Work -- 8. The Negro and Higher Learning -- 9. The Educated Negro and His Mission -- 10. The Relation of the Teacher to the Moral and Social Elevation of the Race -- 11. Howard University's Semi-Centennial -- Philology in General -- 1. The Negro Element in Fiction -- 2. Function and Future of Foreign Languages in Africa -- 3. Notes on the Function of Modern Languages in Africa -- 4. Creole Folk-Tale: Compair Bouki and Compair Lapin -- 5. Folklore and Ethnology: Old Saws -- 6. Negro Folk-lore and Dialect -- 7. Iphigenia in Euripides and Racine -- 8. The Negro in Fiction as Portrayer and Portrayed -- 9. Iphigenia in Euripides, Racine, and Goethe -- Classical Philology -- 1. The Theory and Function of the Thematic Vowel in the Greek Verb -- 2. On Fatalism in Homer and Virgil -- 3. Grote on Thuc. vi. 17 -- 4. Ancipiti in Cæsar, B. G. I. 26.

5. Xenophon or Andocides,-Which? -- 6. Observations on the Fourth Eclogue of Vergil -- 7. Xenophon, Andocides, Cebes,-Which? -- 8. "Ancipiti": Cæsar's De Bello Gallico -- 9. On the Accent and Meaning of Arbutus -- 10. Observations on the Fourth Eclogue of Virgil -- 11. Bellerophon's Letters, Iliad VI. 168 ff -- 12. On Grote's Interpretation of -- 13. Hunc Inventum Inveni (Plautus, Captivi, 442) -- 14. The Chronological Order of Plato's Writings -- 15. Cena, prandium -- 16. Extracts from Thucydides with Brief Notes, VII. 7, 1 -- VII. 8, 2 -- VIII. 29, 2 -- 17. Brief Notes on Thucydides -- 18. Notes on the Meaning and Use of and in Demosthenes, De Corona, 46 -- 19. Notes on Andocides and the Authorship of the Oration against Alcibiades -- 20. Notes on Thucydides -- 21. The Greeks and Suicide -- Politics, Policy, and Prejudice -- 1. A Nationality -- 2. The Exodus-A Suicidal Scheme-The Machinations of Disappointed Office Seekers -- 3. The Civil Status of the Southern Negro -- 4. The Claims of the Colored Citizen upon the Republican Party -- 5. Our Distinguished Visitors Ex-Senator and Mrs. Bruce -- 6. Frederick Douglass: The Democratic Return to Power- Its Effect? -- 7. Ohio's Black Laws -- 8. The Future of the Negro -- 9. Political Necessity of a Federal Election Law -- 10. The Race Problem -- 11. The Negro Question from the Negro's Point of View -- 12. An Inside View of the Southern Convict Lease System -- 13. Race Legislation for Railways -- 14. As You Like It -- 15. The Negro Problem: The African Ethnological Congress -- 16. The Negro's Part in a Presidential Nomination -- 17. The Negro's Duty to Himself -- 18. Our New Possessions-An Open Door -- 19. Lawlessness vs. Lawlessness -- 20. The Negro's Appeal to the Nation: A Plea for Justice -- 21. The Negro and Our New Possessions -- 22. The Negro as a Factor in Business -- 23. What the Omen?.

24. White vs. Black -- 25. The Moral of Race Conflict -- 26. The Negro and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition -- 27. The Negro's Duty in the Present Contest -- 28. The Emancipation of the Negro -- 29. Our Pagan Teachers -- 30. The Negro Criminal Class-How Best Reached, Part I -- 31. The Negro Criminal Class-How Best Reached, Part II -- 32. The Negro's Program for 1906 -- 33. English Principle vs. American Prejudice -- 34. A Subsidized North -- 35. Race Integrity -- 36. An Appeal to Colored Voters -- 37. Race Riots and Their Remedy -- Farming -- Optimisms in Negro Farm Life -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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