Negro Tales

NEGRO TALES

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NEW YORK THE COSMOPOLITAN PRESS 1912

COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY The Cosmopolitan Press


The Author is one of a race that has given scarcely anything of literature to the world. His modest tender of some Christmas verses to me led to an inquiry which revealed his story of unpretentious but earnest and conscientious toil. He is wholly self-taught in English literature and composition. The obstacles which he has surmounted were undreamed of by Burns and other sons of song who struggled up from poverty, obscurity, and ignorance to glory.