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130 Miss Lewis is a very pleasant lady in disposition and in appearance, and is destined to become a power, invincible and active, in the affairs that make for the greatest good of the race.

As this volume is exclusively devoted to the Distinguished Women of the race it is hardly necessary, in the beginning of this chapter, to offer any apology for our exclusion of the male members of the Fisk Jubilee Singers. Therefore, let it be understood that we have no intention whatever to detract in any way a single one of the many honors due these gentlemen for the valuable and indispensable part which they played in the accomplishment of that great work. As we must necessarily be brief, suffice it to say, "Honor to whom honor is due."

The following are the names of the ladies who are said to have been members of that famous club of singers: Misses Ella Shepherd, Maggie Porter, Jennie Jackson, Georgia Gordon, Maggie Carnes, Julia Jackson, Eliza Walker, Minnie Tate, Josephine Moore, Mabel Lewis, A. W. Robinson, Pattie J. Malone.

We quote the following from the valuable little book, "The Story of the Jubilee Singers," by Mr. J. B. T. Marsh: