The Months H. Cordelia Ray 86 The Colored Cadet at West Point Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A. 90 An Hymn to the Evening Phyllis Wheatley 95 Going to School Under Difficulties William H. Holtzclaw 96 The Brave Son Alston W. Burleigh 101 Victory Walter F. White 102 The Dog and the Clever Rabbit A. O. Stafford 109 The Boy and the Ideal Joseph S. Cotter 112 Children at Easter C. Emily Frazier 114 Abraham Lincoln William Pickens 117 Rondeau Jessie Fauset 120 How I Escaped Frederick Douglass 121 Frederick Douglass W. H. Crogman 128 Incident in the Life of Frederick Douglass   134 Animal Life in the Congo William Henry Sheppard 135 Coöperation and the Latin Class Lillian B. Witten 143 The Band of Gideon Joseph F. Cotter, Jr. 148 The Home of the Colored Girl Beautiful Azalia Hackley 150 The Knighting of Donald Lillian B. Witten 153 A Negro Explorer at the North Pole Matthew A. Henson 159 Benjamin Banneker William Wells Brown 166 The Negro Race Charles W. Anderson 168 Paul Cuffe John W. Cromwell 169 The Black Fairy Fenton Johnson 175 It's a Long Way William Stanley Braithwaite 181 Negro Music that Stirred France Emmett J. Scott 182 November 11, 1918   187 Sea Lyric William Stanley Braithwaite 189 A Negro Woman's Hospitality Leila A. Pendleton 190 Record of "The Old Fifteenth" in France Emmett J. Scott