Contents of Volume VIII.

Number 1, January, 1909.

Builders of an Agricultural Commonwealth,

Clarence H. Poe.

Bulgaria, Satisfied and Dissatisfied.... Edward G. Elliott..

PAGE

Backward or Forward?..

Gullah: A Negro Patois, II...
The Freedmen's Bureau in North

Edgar Gardner Murphy.. 19
John Bennett...

39

1228

Carolina, I.,

The Passing of the Solid South....... Enoch Marvin Banks.... 101
Some College Graduates in Public Life. Edwin Mims..
The Young Southerner and the Negro.. Carl Holliday.
The Australian Ballot-Why North Carolina Should Adopt It,

107

117

The Freedmen's Bureau in North Carolina, II.,

J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton 154

The Services of Commissary James Blair to the Colony of
Virginia,

.....

Paul Micou...

Municipal Government by Commission, Charles W. Eliot...

President Eliot and the South......

Book Reviews....

William P. Few.

164

174

184

192

Number 3, July, 1909.

Working for the Common Good: Rural and City Improvement

The American Spirit in Education..... S. C. Mitchell......

.....

PAGE

255

Altruism as an Ideal of "Culture". Anna Blanche McGill.... 260

Proposals for a New Commercial Treaty Between France and

the United States, 1778-1793......George F. Zook......

Two Studies in Southern Biography... William K. Boyd.

Book Reviews..

267

284

291

Number 4, October, 1909.*

Editorial Announcement....

299

Constructive Educational Leadership.. William P. Few...

A New Suggestion on the Race Problem,

301

Ernest G. Dodge.....

A New Southern Poet, Stark Young of Mississippi,

L. W. Payne, Jr......

The South Carolina Cotton Mill-A Manufacturer's View,

Thomas F. Parker.......

The Democracy and Fraternity of American Industrialism,

John Carlisle Kilgo.....

Scotland Yard Methods in Literature..James Finch Royster.

The Southern Educational Convention of 1863,

311

316

328

338

347

John D. Wolcott....

A Printer of the Fifteenth Century. Katherine Jackson..

Living in an Era of Rising Prices.... William H. Glasson.

Book Reviews....

354

361

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370

382

*The October, 1909, number was edited by W. H. Glasson and W. P. Few.

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