Abstract

Editorials

The article presents news on various political developments. In Richmond there is a society of colored men who are held together by their common desire to preserve the religious songs of their race, the "spirituals" which, long regarded as a kind of curiosity, are coming more and more to be viewed as one of the eminent contributions of this continent to the arts. In Charleston there is a society of white men and women who have the same purpose, but who further specialize by trying to recover songs which may have flourished in some particular community or even on some particular plantation without ever having happened to catch the general ear and so to be carried throughout the country, as has happened to certain of the songs which, for that reason, everybody knows.