Part III

The Hesitant South

I. [Two Worlds: The aristocratic clinging to the romance of the past; the plebeian agrarian joining with the Middle Border in its protest against plutocracy. Tom A. Watson. The beginnings of industrialism that proposed to exploit the cotton and iron of the South]

II. [The Romance of the Past: Thomas Nelson Page and the plantation tradition; Joel Chandler Harris and the romance of the negro; Mary Murfree and the romance of the mountaineer; George Washington Cable and the romance of the creole]

III. [Sidney Lanier--the poet of the South[495]]

IV. [Henry W. Grady and the Surrender to the Middle Class]

V. [The Southern Intellectual: James Branch Cabell;[496] Ellen Glasgow; W. W. Woodward]