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Macaulay Publishing Company
A NEWYORKCITYpublishing company. Its editor in
chief was Lee Furman, an aspiring writer who also es-
tablished the Lee Furman publishing company. The
enterprising writer WALLACETHURMANjoined the
company as its first editor and reader of color.
Macaulay later published two books, INFANTS OF THE
SPRINGand THEINTERNE(1932), which Thurman
coauthored with ABRAHAMFURMAN, an attorney
and a relative of the company founders. In addition,
the Macaulay Company published the groundbreak-
ing satirical novel BLACK NO MORE (1931) by
George Schuyler and A LONGWAY FROMHOME
(1937), the autobiography of poet CLAUDEMCKAY.
The company also published works of L. Ron
Hubbard, Alfred Gordon Bennett, Frederick Faust,
and Edward Newhouse.

Macmillan Company
A British publishing company that the Scottish
brothers Daniel and Alexander Macmillan founded
in 1843. Their early publications included works by
Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Rudyard
Kipling, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and H. G. Wells.
The intrepid domestic and world-traveler
JUANITAHARRISONsaw her memoir, MYGREAT,
WIDE,BEAUTIFULWORLD,published by the com-
pany in 1936.

“Mademoiselle ’Tasie—A Story” Eloise Bibb
Thompson(1925)
A short story by ELOISEALBERTAVERONICABIBB
THOMPSONthat appeared in the September 1925

issue of OPPORTUNITY.The plot revolved around

the self-conscious Mademoiselle ’Tasie, a New Or-

leans Creole woman who is desperate to maintain

an image of high class and racial superiority. She is

undone, however, when hard economic times force

her to seek employment with a family of dark-

skinned people. Thompson’s heroine ultimately

learns her lesson about humanity and tolerance.

This allows her to accept the marriage proposal of a

man named Titus, a dark-skinned businessman.

Thompson’s story was one of several insightful

Harlem Renaissance–era works, including JESSIE

FAUSET’s PLUMBUN(1929) and NELLALARSEN’s

PASSING (1929), that dealt with caste prejudice

and social hypocrisy.

Magie NoirePaul Morand(1929)

A collection of short stories by PAULMORAND,a

Paris-born modernist writer and diplomat who was

married to the Greek-born Romanian princess

Hélène Soutzo. The volume, whose translated

French title means “black magic,” was inspired by

Morand’s extensive travels. Originally published in

1928, it was reprinted in the United States by

Viking Press in 1929. The artist AARONDOUGLAS

provided the illustrations for the volume.

The eight short stories in Magie Noire are

marked for their sensational depictions of life and

peoples of color in AFRICA, America, and the West

Indies. In “The Black Tsar,” Morand creates a trou-

bled protagonist named Occide. A mulatto lawyer,

Occide resides in 1920s HAITIduring its U.S. oc-

cupation. He survives the occupation and is in-

stalled as tsar of the island nation.