The Professor of Chemistry in the Vanderbilt University, Nashville, prepared the book--107 pages.

Where in all this is there anything for the educational improvement of the black laborer just where he needs education most?
The labor of the South is subject in these years to a marvelous revolution.

The only opportunity the freedman has to rise is by furnishing such skilled labor as the great changes going on in that splendid section of the land require.

How can he furnish it, unless the education given him is chiefly industrial and technical?
Some very pertinent statements of the situation are made in the _Princeton Review_ for May.

They confirm all that you have said.[12] As to the various bills before Congress, the writer says: "Immediate assistance should be rendered to the ex-slave States in the development of an education suited to their political and _industrial_ needs." Can this be an education in Latin and Greek ?"( The writer contends earnestly for retaining these studies in classical college and academy courses for students of all colors.) Can it be anything else than training in elementary industry, such as is now demanded for our Northern common-schools?
If the denominational freedmen's schools find this a necessity, is it anything less for the Southern public schools act which is contemplated in the bills before Congress?
Mr.Magoun reasons wisely.