SIV INTO N.

Possibly tbiQ may be attributable to al o pen. The
Blacks have no authors; their cause, con, has not
 yet been pleaded. In the authorities we possess on
 ject, either French or mulatto interests. for the most part,
 predominate. Specially predominant are mulatto interests
 and prejudices, in the recently published Life of Toussaint
 L'Otwerture, by SAINT REMT, a mulatto: this writer obvi-
 ously values his caste more than his country or his kind."

 With this work the editor has taken the liberty of making
 a few verbal and other changes in the text of the opening
 chapters; of erasing the two elaborated guesses as to Tous-
 saint's Scriptural studies and readings in the Abbh Raynal's
 philosophy; and of omitting the entire Book IV., which gave
 a sketch of the history ..f Hayti from the death of Toussaint
 to the reign of the late Emperor Soulouque. The alterations
 in the first chapters referred chiefly to statements respecting
 modern Hayti, with which the editor's travels and his official
 relations to its.Government had made him more familiar than
 the author. Book IV. was erased because it was deemed
 an inadequate presentation of the history of an independent
 negro nationality,-not unfair, indeed, nor essentially in-
 accurate, but too meagre for publication in the United States
 where its statements would nkcesearily be weighed in the 
 scales of party. It is hoped that a full and impartial history
 of Hayti will, erelong, be presented to the American people;
 until then, the sketches in the encyclopedias and the summary
 of Mr. Elie in "The Guide," must suffice to indicate the
 governmental changes that have occurred in the island.*
 SThe few reference In the Notes t t this book (we may @ay nl passing)
 will lose every appearance or bad taste or of egotism, when it Is stated
 that It Is simply an unpretendlng collection of facts, to which no claim or
 pride of azaborshJp can justly attach.