Part 30

JABEZ LAMAR MONROE CURRY.--1. What have we inherited from England? 2. What relation does Mr. Gladstone think should exist between England and America? _3. What is the Peabody Educational Fund?_ _4. Learn what you can of George Peabody and of the Peabody Institute in Baltimore._ (_See also under John Pendleton Kennedy and Sidney Lanier._)

MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON.--1. How was Mrs. Preston related to Stonewall Jackson? 2. Where did he die? 3. What were his last words? _4. Where is the Virginia Military Institute?_ _5. Where is the Natural Bridge?_ (_See Jefferson's Description._)

CHARLES HENRY SMITH ("BILL ARP").--1. Tell of the Cherokees and their march to the West. 2. Who were Ridge and Ross? 3. Tell of John Howard Payne's imprisonment. _4. Why did the Cherokees go beyond the Mississippi?_

ST. GEORGE H. TUCKER.--1. What relation was he to St. George Tucker? 2. When was Jamestown burned? 3. When did the Seven Days' Battles around Richmond occur? _4. When was Berkeley governor of Virginia?_ _5. Tell of Bacon's Rebellion._ (_See also Dr. Caruthers' "Knights of the Golden Horseshoe."_) _6. What is left of Jamestown now?_ (_See under John Smith._)

GEORGE WILLIAM BAGBY.--1. What was Dr. Bagby's pen-name? 2. Whom did he succeed as editor of the "Southern Literary Messenger"? _3. Who was Rubinstein?_

SARAH ANNE DORSEY.--1. How did Mrs. Dorsey gain her pen-name? 2. To whom did she will her Mississippi home? 3. Who was H. W. Allen? 4. What was her opinion as to going in to exile after the war? _5. Mention some other Confederate soldiers who went to Mexico._ _6. Who was Mrs. C. A Warfield and what did she write?_ (_See "List of Southern Writers."_) _7. Describe the life of the mistress of a large plantation._ (_See under Kennedy and Mrs. M'Cord; also Mrs. Smedes' "Southern Planter."_)

HENRY TIMROD.--1. What occupation did Timrod's father choose and why? 2. Who were the companions of Timrod's vacations? 3. Who wrote a sketch of his life? 4. In what great fire was his property destroyed in Columbia? _5. When did it occur?_ _6. Where is Magnolia Cemetery?_

PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE.--1. What title has been given him? 2. What loss had he during the war? 3. What relation was he to Robert Young Hayne? 4. What book has his son published? 5. The name of his son?

JOHN ESTEN COOKE.--1. What relation was he to P. P. Cooke and to John P. Kennedy? _2. Who were Jackson and Stuart?_ _3. Tell something of Virginia History at the time the "Races" took place; of United States History at the same time._

ZEBULON BAIRD VANCE.--1. What title had he and why? 2. What race settled North Carolina? _3. What is the origin of the term "buncombe" as popularly used?_ _4. Tell of the Siege of Londonderry, and of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence._

ALBERT PIKE.--1. Tell of his trip to the West. 2. Of what does his "Mocking-Bird" remind one? _3. Learn more of Pike and of his labors for Freemasonry._

WILLIAM TAPPAN THOMPSON.--1. What distinction about his birth? _2. What was the Western Reserve?_

JAMES BARRON HOPE.--1. In what year was the 250th anniversary of the settlement of Jamestown? _2. Who is "the Man" of the Yorktown Centennial Ode?_ _3. Tell of the surrender at Yorktown._ _4. For whom was Lord Cornwallis exchanged?_

JAMES WOOD DAVIDSON.--1. What have been his services to Southern literature? 2. What is the Beautiful? 3. The Poetical?

CHARLES COLCOCK JONES, JR.--1. What collections did he make? 2. How stands he among Georgian writers? 3. Describe the city of Savannah in 1734. _4. Tell something of James Edward Oglethorpe._ _5. What did Oglethorpe write?_ (_See "List of Southern Writers."_) _6. Who were Jasper, De Soto, Pulaski?_

MARY VIRGINIA TERHUNE ("MARION HARLAND").--1. For what special purpose was the Story of Mary Washington written? 2. When was the monument unveiled? 3. Where is it? _4. When did Mrs. Washington die?_

AUGUSTA EVANS WILSON.--1. What was Mrs. Wilson's first novel? 2. Her most famous one? _3. Translate the foreign phrases and look up the unknown names in the selection._

DANIEL BEDINGER LUCAS.--1. When was the poem written? _2. To whom does the fifth stanza refer?_ _3. What was the Forum?_

JAMES RYDER RANDALL.--1. What has "My Maryland" been called? 2. When was it written? _3. Who were Carroll, Howard, Ringgold, Watson, Lowe, May?_

ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN.--1. What was his title? 2. Mention some of his poems? _3. What was the Conquered Banner?_

WILLIAM GORDON MCCABE.--_1. What were the Trenches?_ _2. Who wrote Tristram and Iseult?_

SIDNEY LANIER.--1. What kind of ancestry had he? 2. What is said of his "Science of English Verse"? 3. What was his favorite remark on Art? 4. Tell of the Centennial Ode. _5. To what poems does Barbe refer in his tribute to Lanier?_ (_See under Waitman Barbe._) 6. Study well the "Song of the Chattahoochee," its rhyme, meter, and thought. _7. What are the marshes of Glynn?_ (_Salt marches on the coast of Ga._) _8. What are the Peabody Symphony Concerts?_

JAMES LANE ALLEN.--1. From what States was Kentucky mainly settled? 2. When was the battle of Blue Licks? _3. When was Kentucky admitted to the Union?_

JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS.--1. What is said of "On the Plantation"? 2. Is the negro dialect the same in all the States? _3. Who was Uncle Remus?_

ROBERT BURNS WILSON.--1. Who is the "Fair Daughter of the Sun"? 2. To whom are Wilson's poems dedicated?

CHRISTIAN REID (MRS. TIERNAN).--1. In what battle was Colonel Fisher killed? _2. When was it?_ 3. Tell of Dr. Mitchell's death and burial. (A granite monument has been erected over his grave).

HENRY WOODFEN GRADY.--1. Of what paper was he editor? 2. Where is there a monument to him? _3. Learn all that you can of the persons and places mentioned in the extract._

THOMAS NELSON PAGE.--1. With whom did he first write? 2. What passage of Grady's does the extract illustrate?

CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK (MISS MURFREE).--1. For whom was Murfreesboro named? 2. Where are Miss Murfree's stories laid?

DANSKE DANDRIDGE.--1. Whence did Mrs. Dandridge get her first name? 2. Learn the beautiful poem by heart.

AMÉLIE RIVES (MRS. CHANLER).--1. Who were her paternal grandparents, and what did they write? 2. What style had she at first _3. Learn something of the ginseng-diggers in the Alleghany Mountains._

GRACE KING.--_Describe the contrast in the life of many of the Southern planters before and after the war._

WAITMAN BARBE.--1. To whom is the poem addressed? 2. Of what paper is he editor?

MADISON CAWEIN.--1. Of what race is he? _2. Who were the Huguenots?_ _3. Learn something of their history._

DIXIE.--_1. Who wrote Dixie, and when?_

APPENDIX.

LIST OF SOUTHERN WRITERS.

This list is not complete. It is my desire to make it so, and I shall be greatly obliged for information as to names, dates, residence, and works of Southern writers. Correction of mistakes is urgently and respectfully solicited, as well as fuller details in regard to the names here given, which lack some of the above particulars.

Communications may be addressed to Miss Louise Manly, care B. F. Johnson Publishing Company, Richmond, Virginia.

Valuable aid has been most kindly and generously rendered by Prof. B. F. Meek, University of Alabama; Prof. Howard N. Ogden, University of West Virginia (now of the University of Chicago); Mr. Charles Weathers Bump, Ph. D., Johns Hopkins University; Prof. Charles W. Kent, Linden-Kent Professor of English, University of Virginia; Dr. James Wood Davidson, Washington, D. C.; Prof. B. F. Riley, University of Georgia; Mr. Alfred Holt Stone, Greenville, Mississippi; Prof. R. H. Willis, Arkansas University; Prof. F. C. Woodward, South Carolina University; Prof. C. V. Waugh, Florida State College; Miss Sara Hartman, Editor of _The Gulf Messenger_, San Antonio, Texas; Mr. F. A. Sampson, Sedalia, Missouri; Mr. William F. Switzler, Editor of _The Missouri Democrat_, Boonville, Missouri; Mr. Fay Hempstead, Little Rock, Arkansas; Mr. Leonard Lemmon, Editor of _The School Forum_, Sherman, Texas; Prof. E. M. Davis, University of Tennessee (now of Hampden-Sidney, Va.), and other professors and scholars.

* * * * *

Those marked * are to be found in the body of the book. The following abbreviations are used:

Bapt., Baptist. c. e., civil engineer. cl., clergyman. ed., editor. edu., educator. jour., journalist. Luth., Lutheran. M. E., Methodist Episcopal. nat., naturalist. P. E., Protestant Episcopal. phys., physician. Pr., Presbyterian. R. C., Roman Catholic. sci., scientist.

Abbey, Richard M. E. Cl. Miss. Apostolic Succession, Creed of All Men, and other religious works.

Aiken, Mrs. J. G. La. Poems.

Ainslie, Hew, 1792-1878 poet Scotland, Ky. Ingleside, On with the Tartan, Pilgrimage to the Land of Burns, and other poems.

Aleix, Mme Eulalie L. T. La. Le Livre d'Or de la Comtesse Diane, Maxime de la Vie, Les Poésies de Lamartine.

Alfriend, Frank H. Va. Life of Jefferson Davis, Life of R. E. Lee.

Allan, William,--d. 1891 colonel C. S. A. Va. Battlefields of Virginia, Jackson's Valley Campaign, Army of Northern Virginia.

Allen, Henry Watkins, 1820-1866 War governor of La. Travels of a Sugar-Planter.

*Allen, James Lane novelist Ky. Flute and Violin and other stories, John Gray, A Kentucky Cardinal.

Allston, Joseph Blyth soldier S. C. Battle Songs.

Allston, Washington, 1779-1843 artist and poet S. C., Eng., Mass. Monaldi (novel), Poems, Art writings.

Alsop, George, 1638- colonist England, Md. Character of the Province of Maryland, Small Treatise on the Wild and Naked Indians or Susquehannakes of Maryland.

Anderson, Florence Ky. Zenaida (novel), Poems.

Andrew, James Osgood, 1794-1871 M. E. bishop Ga., Ala. Miscellanies, Family Government.

Andrews, Eliza Frances, 1847 ("_Elzey Hay_") Ga. Family Secret, Mere Adventurers, Prince Hal, Dress Under Difficulties (fashions in Dixie during the war), Plea for Red Hair, and other writings.

Andry, Mme Laure La. Histoire de la Louisiane pour les Enfants.

Archdale, John Quaker, came in 1664 as governor of Carolina. Description of Carolina.

Archer, G. W. phys. Md. More than She Could Bear (Tales of Texas).

Arrington, Alfred W., 1810-1867 N. C., Mo., Ark. Apostrophe to Water, Sketch of the South-West, Rangers and Regulators of the Tanaha.

Asbury, Francis, 1745-1816 M. E. bishop Eng., Va. Journal (3 vols., travels in establishing Methodism).

Ashe, Thomas, ("T. A., Gent.") Eng., Va. Carolina: or a Description of the Present State of that Country and the Natural Excellencies thereof (published in 1682, reprinted, 1836).

*Audubon, John James, 1780-1851 naturalist La., Pa., Ky., N. Y. Ornithological Biographies, Birds of America, Quadrupeds of America (with Rev. John Bachman).

Augustin, George La. Legends of New Orleans.

Augustin, John La. Creole Songs, War Flowers.

Augustin, Marie La. Le Macandal (novel).

Bachman, John, 1790-1874 Luth. cl., nat. N. Y., S. C. Quadrupeds of America (with Audubon), Unity of the Human Race, Defence of Luther.

Bacon, Julia Tex. Looking for the Fairies, and other poems.

*Bagby, George William, 1828-1883 humorist, essayist Va. Letters of Mozis Addums and other writings.

Baker, Daniel, 1791-1857 Pr. cl., edu. Ga., Va., Tex. Sermons, Address to Fathers, and other works.

Baker, William Munford (son of Daniel), 1825-1883 cl. Tex., Mass. Inside, A Chronicle of Secession, by _G. F. Harrington_, Virginians in Texas, New Timothy, and other works.

Baker, Mrs. Marion A. (_Julie K. Wetherill_), 1858- La. Poems, essays, and other writings.

*Baldwin, Joseph G., 1811-1864 jurist, humorist Ala., Cal. Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi, Party Leaders, and other writings.

Baldwin, James Mark edu. S. C., N. J. Mental Development in the Child and the Race, Psychology.

Ball, Mrs. Caroline A. [Rutledge] S. C. Jacket of Gray and other Poems (1866).

Banister, John, ?-1692 botanist Eng., Va. Insects of Virginia, Curiosities in Virginia.

*Barbe, Waitman, 1864- ed. W. Va. Addresses, Ashes and Incense, and other poems.

Barbee, William J., 1816- cl., phys., edu. Ky., Tenn., Mo. Cotton Question, Life of Paul, and other writings.

Barber, Miss Catherine Webb [Mrs. Towles] ed. Mass., Ala., Ga. (Ed. "Miss Barber's Weekly"), Three Golden Links, Freemason's Fireside.

Barclay, James Turner, 1807-1874 cl. Va., Ala. City of the Great King.

Barde, Alexandre La. Histoire des Comités de Vigilance aux Attakapas.

Barnes, Annie Maria, 1857- S. C., Ga. Some Lowly Lives, Story of the Chattahoochee, Found in the Sand, &c.

Barney, John, 1784-1856 Md. Personal Recollections of Men and Things in America and Europe.

Barr, Mrs. Amelia Edith Eng., Tex. Remember the Alamo, Jan Vedder's Wife, and many other novels.

Barrow, Mrs. Frances Elizabeth [Mease] (_Aunt Fanny_), 1822 S. C., N. Y. Aunt Fanny's Story-Book, Letter G, Six Nightcaps.

Bartlett, Napier La. Military Recollections of Louisiana, Soldier's Story of the War.

Bartley, James Avis Va. Lays of Virginia.

Bascom, Henry Bidleman, 1796-1850. M. E. bishop N. Y., Ky. (Ed. "Southern Methodist Quarterly Review"), Sermons, Methodism and Slavery.

Baxter, William, 1823- cl., edu. England, Ark. Poems, Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove, War Lyrics.

Bay Mo. Bench and Bar of Missouri.

Baylor, Frances Courtenay, 1848- novelist Ark., Va. On Both Sides, Behind the Blue Ridge, A Shocking Example.

Beale, Helen G. Va. Lansdowne.

Beard, Richard, 1799-1880 Pr. cl., edu. Tenn. Systematic Theology, Biographical Sketches, Why I Am a Cumberland Presbyterian.

Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 1818- soldier La. Principles and Maxims of the Art of War, Defence of Charleston.

Beck, George, 1749-1812 edu. England, Ky. Poems, original, and translated from Greek and Latin.

Bell, Orelia Key, 1864- Ga. Po' Jo, Jamestown Weed, and other poems.

Bellamy, Mrs. Elizabeth Whitfield [Croom], "_Kamba Thorp_," 1839- Fla., Ala. Four Oaks, Little Joanna, Penny Lancaster Farmer, Old Man Gilbert, The Luck of the Pendennings, (Ladies' Home Journal, 1895).

Bennett, Mrs. Martha Haines Butt Va. Pastimes with Little Friends, Leisure Moments.

*Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858 statesman N. C., Mo. Thirty Years in the United States Senate.

Berkeley, Sir William, 1610-1677 colonial governor of Virginia, 1641-1676 Va. The Lost Lady, a Tragi-Comedy, 1638, Description of Virginia.

Bernard, P. V. La. Un Ancêtre de la Sainte Alliance.

Berrien, John Macpherson, 1781-1856 statesman N. J., Ga. (Called "_The American Cicero_"), Address in Congress.

Beverley, Robert, 1670-1735 statesman, historian Va. History of the Present State of Virginia, 1705.

Bigby, Mrs. Mary Catherine [Dougherty], 1839- Ga. Delilah, Death of Polk, and other poems.

Bigney, Mark F. La. Forest Pilgrims, Wreck of the Nautilus, and other poems.

Blackburn Va. Miss Washington of Virginia.

Blair, Francis Preston, 1821-1875 ed., soldier Ky., Mo. (Ed. "Mo. Democrat"), Life of General William O. Butler.

Blair, James, 1656-1743 first president of William and Mary College, edu. Scotland, Va. State of His Majesty's Colony in Virginia, Sermons.

Blake, Mrs. Lillie [Devereux], 1835- N. C., N. Y. Woman's Place To-day, Fettered for Life, Southwold, Rockford, and other stories.

Bland, Richard, ("Virginia Antiquary"), 1710-1776 Va. Letter to the Clergy, Rights of the British Colonies.

Bledsoe, Albert Taylor, 1809-1877 cl., edu. Ky., Tenn., Va. (Ed. "Southern Review"), Theodicy, Is Davis a Traitor? Edwards on the Will, Liberty and Slavery, Philosophy of Mathematics. "Dr. Bledsoe was a giant of Southern Literature."

Bléton, C. La. De la Poésie dans l'Histoire.

Blount, Annie R. (_Jenny Woodbine_) Ga. Poems, (1860).

Boernstein Mo. Mysteries of St. Louis.

Boner, John Henry, 1845- N. C., N. Y. (One of the editors of the Century Dictionary, and of the Library of American Literature), Whispering Pines (poems).

Bosman, John Leeds, 1757-1823 lawyer Md. History of Maryland, Verses and prose articles.

Botts, John Minor, 1802-1869 Va. Great Rebellion.

Boyce, James Petigru, 1827-1889 Bapt. cl., edu. S. C., Ky. (Founder of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary), Systematic Theology, Catechism.

Boyle, Virginia Frazer, 1863- Tenn. Old Canteen, On Both Sides.

Bradley, Thomas Bibb Va. Poems (with his cousin, Mrs. Creswell).

Breckinridge, John Cabell, 1821-1875 statesman, soldier Ky. Addresses.

Breckinridge, Robert Jefferson, 1800-1871 Pr. cl., edu. Ky. Internal Evidences of Christianity, Knowledge of God, Travels, and other writings.

Brewer, Willis Ala. Alabama.

Bringhurst, Mrs. Nettie Houston (daughter of Sam Houston) Tex. Poems.

Brisbane, Abbott Hall, 1861- civil engineer S. C. Ralphston.

Broadus, John Albert, 1827-1895 Bapt. cl., edu. Va., S. C., Ky. Preparation and Delivery of Sermons, History of Preaching, Sermons and Addresses, Commentary on Matthew, Memoir of James P. Boyce, Harmony of the Gospels.

Brock. R. A. Va. Virginia and Virginians, Southern Historical Society Papers.

Brock, Miss Sallie A. (see Mrs. Putnam) Va.

Brooks, Nathan Covington, 1819- edu. Md. Shelley, History of the Mexican War, Literary Amaranth, and other writings.

Brown, John Henry Tex. History of Texas.

Brown, William Hill, 1766-1793 N. C. Poems.

Browne, Emma Alice, 1840- Md. Poems--"The Water-Lilies Float Away," and others.

Browne, William Hand, 1828- edu. Md. English Literature, Life of Alexander H. Stephens, (with R. M. Johnston), George and Cecilius Calvert, Maryland.

Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877 cl. Va., Tenn. Secession.

Bruns, John Dickson, 1836- phys., edu. S. C., La. "Charleston," "Wrecked," and other poems, Lectures on Tennyson and Timrod, medical writings.

Bryan, D. Va. Mountain Muse, Adventures of Daniel Boone.

Bryan, E. L. Va. 1860-1865 (novel).

Bryan, Mrs. Mary Edwards, 1846- Fla., Ga. Manch, Wild Work, Poems, and other works.

Buchanan, Joseph, 1785-1829 ed., inventor Va., Ky. Philosophy of Human Nature.

Buckner, Mrs. R. T. La. Toward the Gulf.

Burke, John W. Ireland, Ga. Life of Robert Emmet.

Burnett, Mrs. Frances Hodgson England, Tenn. That Lass o' Lowrie's (1877), Surly Tim's Troubles (1872), Haworth's (1879), Louisiana (1880), Fair Barbarian (1881), Through One Administration (1883), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), Sarah Crewe (1888), The Pretty Sister of José (1889), Little Saint Elizabeth (1890), Giovanni and the Other (1891), The One I Knew Best (1893), The Mind of a Child (1893), (describing her son, the original of Fauntleroy).

Butler, William Orlando, 1791-1880 soldier Ky. Boatman's Horn (poem).

*Byrd, William, 1674-1744 statesman Va. Westover Manuscripts: History of the Dividing Line, A Journey to the Land of Eden, Progress to the Mines.

Cable, George Washington, 1844- La., Mass. Old Creole Days (1879), Grandissimes (1880), Madam Delphine (1881), Dr. Sevier (1883), Creoles of Louisiana (1884), The Silent South (1885), Bonaventure (1887), Strange True Stories of Louisiana, edited and revised by G. W. Cable (1889), Negro Question (1890), John March, Southerner (1893-4).

Caldwell, Charles, 1772-1853, phys. N. C., Ky. Autobiography, and other works.

Caldwell, James Fitz-James S. C. A Brigade of South Carolinians, Letters from Europe.

*Calhoun, John Caldwell, 1782-1850 statesman S. C. Addresses in Congress (6 vols).

Calvert, George Henry, 1803-1880 ed. Md. Poems, Goethe, Dante, St. Beuve, and other essays.

Campbell, Charles, 1807-1876 historian Va. Bland Papers, Introduction to the History of the Old Dominion, Spotswood Family.

Canonge, L. Placide, 1822- dramatist La. Qui Perd Gagne, Brise du Sud, Le Comte de Carmagnola, Institutions Américaines.

Carleton, Henry Guy, 1835- dramatist N. M., La. Memnon.

Cardozo, J. N. S. C. Reminiscences of Charleston.

Carroll, Mother Austin La. Annals of the Sisters of Mercy.

Caruthers, William A., 1800-1850 phys. Va., Ga. Knights of the Golden Horse-Shoe, Cavaliers of Virginia, Kentuckians in New York.

Castleman, Virginia C. edu. Va. A Child of the Covenant, Belmont, a Tale of the New South.

*Cawein, Madison, 1865- poet Ky. Blooms of the Berry (1887), Days and Dreams, &c.

Chambers, H. E. La. Histories of the United States (for schools).

*Chanler, Mrs. Amélie Rives, 1863- Va. A Brother to Dragons and Other Stories (1888), Virginia of Virginia (1888), The Quick or the Dead? (1888) and other novels and dramas.

Chapman, John A. S. C. The Walk (poem), History of South Carolina (for schools).

Charlton, Robert M., 1807-1854 lawyer Ga. Leaves from the Portfolio of a Georgia Lawyer, Sketches, Poems.

Chaudron, Louis Ala. Madame La Marquise, and other comedies.

Chittenden, William Lawrence, 1862- N. J., Tex. (called "Poet-Ranchman"), Ranch Verses.

Clack, Mrs. Marie Louise La. Our Refugee Household (1866).

Claiborne, John Francis Hamtranck, 1809-1884 jour. Miss. Life and Times of General Sam. Dale, Life of J. A. Quitman (1860), History of the War of Secession.

Clarke, Mrs. Kate Upson, 1851- Ala., N. Y. That Mary Ann, and other writings.

Clarke, Mrs. Mary Bayard [Devereux], 1830- N. C. Wood-Notes, Mosses from a Rolling Stone, Reminiscences of Cuba, Stories, Sketches, Poems.

*Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 statesman Va., Ky. Addresses at the Bar and in Congress.

Clemens, Jeremiah, 1814-1865 Ala. Rivals, Mustang Gray, and other novels.

Cleveland, Henry Ga. Alexander H. Stephens (1866).