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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers of the offending passages. (Fortune to BTW, Oct. ~3, 1899, above; BTW to Fortune, Oct. 27, 1899, Con. ~60, BTW Papers, DLC.) The reviewers were kinder than Fortune when the book appeared in late 1899. Lyman Abbott in the Outiook lauded Washington for his perception and courage and suggested that every northern teacher in a southern black school should read the book. (Outlook, 64 Ban. 6, Too], ~4-~7.) Abbott wrote Washington that the volume renewed and increased his admiration for Washington's work, saying: ''I doubt whether all other influences combiner! since the close of the Reconstruction period have been as efficient and beneficent as yours.'' He urged Washington to express his ideas in an autobiographical work that ''would be read by a great many who are not greatly interested in the problem as a problem.'' (Dec. 9, 1899, above.) Other critics were equally complimentary. Walter Hines Page praised the book as ''intensely practical,'' not a speculative treatise but a guide to solving the nation's number one problem. (`Book Buyer, 20 tMar. Moo], ~44-4~.) The reviewer in the Southern Workman, George S. Dickerman, went so far as to compare it with Uncle Tom's Cabin, not as a story but as a guide to the race problem, ''a calm setting forth of facts and conclusions by one whose life has been a steady training in the mastery of his subject.'' (Southern Workman, 28 tDec. 1899], 504-6.) The black novelist Charles W. Chesnutt, a personal friend! of Washington despite ideological differences, praised the book as a practical guide to the present problems and immediate future of the Negro. He noted, however, that Washington had ''almost nothing to say about caste prejudice, the admixture of the races, or the remote future of the negro.'' Chesnutt felt that Washington was ''doing his part'' by smoothing over asperities and appealing to the dormant love of justice among whites, but that the race problem could not be solved until the whole country was ready to treat blacks with equal and exact justice. (`The Critic, 36 tFeb. Too], ~60-63.) 3oo