Dark Princess A Romance

Summary: "The book is well written, but there is enough material in it for several novels, and the plot is flamboyant and unconvincing. The theme of miscegenation is so decidedly controversial that to those who believe in the preservation of racial purity the book will fail to lessen their prejudice. There is, however, real meat in DARK PRINCESS and such proof of the author's power that it seems a pity he is not using his tal...ent to show the natural ability of the colored man or the nobility of his character, as in PORGY rather than to dwell, oversensitively, on social injustices which are inevitable in any period of racial transition and development -- of white or black." [read more]