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342 methods of teaching and school management in the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute at Petersburg, Va., which position he still holds.

The professor has had ten years' experience as an educator, and few can be found who equal him. He possesses executive ability of a high order, and his decisions may be generally relied upon. He is a popular linguist, reading with ease German, French, Hebrew, Latin and Greek. Our subject has a wide reputation as a brilliant orator and conversationalist. His services in this respect have been constantly in demand for ten years. He is one of the best known men in his state, and has a national reputation as well, and has been frequently honored as a distinguished leader of his people. The New York Sun of May 15, 1887, presented an excellent cut and sketch of him, with those of Frederick Douglass, Dr. A. Shaker and others. The same adorned the columns of The Cleveland Gazette; and his is given in Dr. William J. Simmons' book as that of "a man of mark."

One of Virginia's noblest sons, we have given but the briefest record of his life thus far. We now point the readei to a brilliant picture of his literary and journalistic career. The writer regards this as the brightest "part of his record. His career in this respect began in. 1883 and 1884, when he contributed a series of articles to The Industrial Herald and Richmond Planet on "The Latin Language," and "The Education of the Negro." In 1884 he contributed another series to The Baptist Companion, on "Why we are Baptists." Their range of history and philosophy, and pleasing and attractive style, added much to the popularity of the paper.

He has, at different times, contributed to different papers on miscellaneous subjects. He now corresponds with The National Pilot, The Home Mission Monthly, The Freeman, and The A. M. E. Church Review. He is also editor of the department of Theory and Practice of Teaching in The