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The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois was published one hundred years ago! I first read it more than seventy years ago and now I read at least portions of it each year. There is something in it for most readers, most of the time. I especially like his essays "Of Our Spiritual Stirrings", "Of the Meaning of Progress", and "Of the Faith of Our Fathers." He closes with "Hear My Cry, O God the Reader, vouchsafe that this my book fall not still-born into the world-wilderness." It did not!

Reviewed by John Hope F., Professor Emeritus of History, Duke University

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