Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader

Part 36

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Martin, L. A. lawyer Mo. Halloween, and other poems.

Maynard, Mrs. Sallie Ballard [Hillyer], 1841-1882 Ga., Tex. The Two Heroines, or The Valley Farm (novel), Poems.

Melton, Wightman Fletcher M. E. cl., edu. Ala. The Preacher's Son (1894).

Mercer, Margaret, 1792-1846 edu. Md., Va. Ethics, Studies for Bible Classes (1842).

Meriwether, C. S. C. History of Higher Education in South Carolina (1889).

Merrimon, Maud L. N. C. Memoir of A. S. Merrimon (her father).

Miller, Mrs. M. C. [Keller] La. Severed at Gettysburg, Love and Rebellion.

Miles, James Warley, 1818-1875 P. E. cl. S. C. Philosophic Theology, Addresses, Essays, &c.

Minnigerode, Charles G., 1814-1894 P. E. cl. Ger., Va. Sermons.

Minor, Benjamin B. Va. Memoir of Chancellor Wythe (1852).

Minor, John Barbee, 1813-1895 edu., lawyer Va. Reports of 1799-1800, legal writings, &c.

Minor, Lucian, 1802-1858 ed. Va. Abolishing the Liquor Traffic, Travels in New England, Legal Treatises.

Minor, Virginia L. Va. Historical and Biographical Sketches, &c.

Mitchell, John Kearsley, 1798- phys. Va. St. Helena (poem), Indecision (novel) 1839, Properties of Water, Essays on Medical Subjects, &c.

Montague, ---- Va. Montagues of Virginia.

Moore, Francis England, Ga. Travels into Africa, Voyage to Georgia in 1735 (1744).

Moorman, R. B. Va. Sketches of Travel in Europe.

Moran, Mrs. F. B. Va. Miss Washington of Virginia (1891).

Moran, W. H. W. Va. From School-Room to Bar (1892).

Morgan, William, 1775- Va. Illustrations of Freemasonry (1826).

Morris, Thomas Asbury, 1794- M. E. bishop Va. Church Polity, Biographical Sketches and Notes of Travel, Western Methodism (1852).

Mosby, Ella F., 1846- Va. The Ideal Life (1877), The Christmas Inn, and other stories, poems, &c.

Murphy, John Albert cl. N. C., Tex. The First Fallen Soldier of 1861, Our Silver Wedding-Day, and other poems.

Mutter, Thomas Dent, 1811- phys. Va. Salt-Sulphur Springs of Virginia, Medical and Surgical Essays (1846).

Newton, Virginius Va. Confederate Navy, The Ram _Merrimac_ (in Southern Historical Society Papers).

Norris, Thaddeus, 1811-1877 Va. American Angler's Book (1864), American Fish Culture (1868).

Odom, Mary Hunt McCaleb ("_L'Eclair_") Ky., Miss., Tex. Hood's Last Charge, and other poems.

Olive, Johnson, 1816-1885 Bapt. cl. N. C. Autobiography.

Otey, James Hervey, 1800-1863 P. E. bishop Va., Tenn. Unity of the Church, Sermons and Essays.

Page, William lieutenant United States navy Va. Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon.

Page, William A. Va. Uncle Robin in His Cabin in Virginia (1853).

Paris, John Meth. Prot. cl. N. C. History of the Methodist Protestant Church (1849).

Parker, Nathan H. Mo. Missouri Hand-Book (1865), Geological Map of Missouri (1865), Missouri As It Is in 1867 (1867).

Parker, W. W. phys. Va. Rise and Decline of Homoeopathy, Forty Years a Doctor, &c.

Pate, Henry Clay Va. Sketches of Virginia.

Patton, John M. cl. Va. The Death of Death.

Paxton, William M. Mo. The Marshall Family (1885).

Peck, John M. Mo. Life of Daniel Boone, Annals of the West (1850).

Penn, Garland Va. California, Men of Mark, Wizard of the Wave, &c.

Perdue, E. T., 1831- Va. Words of Our Saviour (1890).

Phifer, C. L. Mo. Love and Law (sonnets), Annals of the Earth, Weather Wisdom, and two other volumes of poems.

Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth P. E. cl. S. C. Life of Thomas Pinckney.

Polk, William M. phys. La., N. Y. Life of Leonidas Polk (his father).

Pollard, Marie Antoinette N. G. Va. Poems.

Pollard, Henry Rives, 1833- Va. Historical Sketches, Essays, &c.

Pollard, Thomas Va. Hand-Book of Virginia.

Pope, William F., -1895 Ark. The Early Days of Arkansas.

Post, T. M. Mo. Life of Rev. Dr. T. A. Post.

Potter, Mrs. Mary Eugenia [Guillot], 1864- Tex. The Press, Gibraltar, Pioneer Association of Dallas County, and other poems.

Potter, Reuben M., 1802- N. J., Mex., Tex. Hymn of the Alamo, Old Texian Hunter, &c.

Price, Mrs. Anna Va. Sunday School Stories.

Pryor, Roger Atkinson, 1828- ed., lawyer Va., N. Y. Essays and Addresses.

Purdy, Mrs. Amelia V. [McCarty], 1845-1881 Pa., O., Tex. First Fruits, Vocation, and other poems.

Purefoy, George W. Bapt. cl. N. C. Sandy Creek Baptist Association, 1758-1858 (1859).

Rader, Perry S. ed. Mo. School History of Missouri (1891).

Randolph, Alfred Magill, 1836- P. E. bishop Va. Sermons and Discourses.

Randolph, E. A. Va. Life of John Jasper (1884).

Randolph, Peyton, 1779- lawyer Va. Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court, 1821-8.

Raymond, W. M. Va. Citronaloes (1889).

Reavis, L. U. Mo. The New Republic (1867), St. Louis the Future Great City (1870), Thoughts for Young Men (1873), Life of Horace Greeley, Life of General Harney (1878), Commercial Destiny of the Mississippi Valley (1880), The Isthmian Passage (1882), Manhood of America (1880), and other works.

Reichel, Levin Theodore, 1812-1878 Moravian bishop N. C. The Moravians in North Carolina (1857).

Reilly, J. S. N. C. Wilmington: Past, Present, and Future.

Reynolds, Thomas C. Governor of Mo. Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Discovery of the Upper Mississippi, State Papers, &c.

Rhodes, Edward Abesette, 1841-1863 soldier Tex. Poem on death of his father, &c.

Rhodes, Robert H., 1845-1874 Tex. Prayer, Under the Cactus, and other poems.

Rhodes, William Henry, 1822- N. C., Tex., Cal. Theodosia (play), Indian Gallows (poems), Caston's Book (essays, poems, and sketches).

Rice, Martin Bapt. cl. Mo. Rural Rhymes, Tales of Olden Times, Blue River Association.

Richards, William C., 1818-1892 cl., sci. England, Ga., Ill. Georgia Illustrated (1842).

Richardson, John M., 1831- S. C., Tex. The Whiskey Fiend, Prayer of Mary Queen of Scots, &c.

Riley, Benjamin Franklin, 1849- Bapt. cl., edu. Ala., Ga. History of Conecuh County, Ala., Alabama As It Is, History of the Baptists of Alabama, Baptists in the Southern States East of the Mississippi (in preparation).

Robinson, Conway, 1805- lawyer Va. Early Voyages to America (1848), and legal works.

Robinson, John Va. Forms in the Court of Law of Virginia (1790, 1826).

Robinson Willie Blanche ("_Persia_") 1857- Tex. Texas to Jefferson Davis--A Welcome, and other poems.

Rockwell, Elisha F., 1809-1888 N. C. Rowan County in 1774, John Thompson, James Hall, and other historical papers.

Rogers, Mrs. Loula Kendall edu. Ga. Toccoa the Beautiful, Twenty Years an Alien, Musical Drills, Songs, and other poems.

Rose, Victor M., -1893 Tex. Ross's Brigade, Los Despenadores, The Texas Vendetta, Demara the Comanche Queen, History of Victoria County, Life of General B. McCulloch, Legend of Dixie.

Ross, James, 1801-1878 ---- Life and Times of Elder Reuben Ross (his father).

Rothwell, William R. edu., Bapt. cl. Mo. Reading the Scriptures (1889), New Testament Church Order (1890), Addresses.

Rowe, Horace, 1852-1884 Tex. Years of Youth, and other poems.

Royall, Anne, 1769-1854 b. in Virginia (a prisoner for years among the Indians, then lived in Alabama and Washington, D. C.). History, Life, and Manners in the United States, The Tennessee (novel), The Black Book, Letters from Alabama, Southern Tour.

Ruffin, Edmund, 1794-1865 Va. Essays on Agriculture, Anticipations of the Future (1860).

Ruffner, William H. ---- History of Washington and Lee University, &c.

Salyards, Joseph H. edu. Va. Idothea, a Poem (1875).

Sampson, Francis Asbury, 1842- lawyer Mo. Natural History of Pettis County (1882), Bibliography of the Geology of Missouri (1890), Mollusca of Arkansas (1893), and other scientific and historical writings.

Saunders, Mrs. Mary [Ingle], 1836- England, Tex. Texas, San Jacinto Day, and other poems.

Saunders, William Lawrence, 1835-1891 statesman N. C. _Edited_ Records of North Carolina to 1776 (8 volumes).

Schenck, David, 1835- lawyer N. C. North Carolina 1780-81, Guilford Court-House, and other historical papers.

Scott, John Va. Partisan Life with Mosby.

Scott, William Cooper, 1817- Va. Genius and Faith.

Scott, Winfield, 1786- soldier Va. Regulations for the Army, Infantry Tactics, Memoir of Lieutenant-General Scott, written by himself (1864).

Semmes, Thomas Va. Poems (by "Collegian").

Sherwood, Adiel, 1791-1879 Bapt. cl. Ga., Mo. Gazetteers of Georgia, Notes on the New Testament.

Shields, Joseph Dunbar, 1820- jurist Miss. Life and Times of Prentiss (1885).

Shinn, Josiah H., 1849- edu., jour. Ark. Public School and College (1891), The South and Education (1892), History of the American People (1893), Illustrated Arkansas (1893), and other works.

Shumard, Benjamin F. sci. Mo. Geological Reports of Missouri and Texas, &c.

Sibbald, George Ga. Pine Lands of Georgia (1801).

Slaughter, William Bank, 1798- Va. Reminiscences of Distinguished Men I Have met (1878).

Smith, Augustine Meade Va. Commissioners in Chancery (1888).

Smith, Benjamin Mosby, 1811- cl. Va. Commentary on the Psalms and Proverbs, Questions on the Gospels, Poetical Books of the Scriptures.

Smith, C. Alphonso edu. La. Repetition and Parallelism in English verse (1894).

Smith, Charles Lee, 1865- N. C. History of Education in North Carolina (1888).

Smith, George G., Jr., 1829- M. E. cl. Ga. History of Methodism in Georgia and Florida, Life of Bishop Andrew, &c.

Smith, John Augustine, 1782-1865 phys. Va. Nervous System, Mutations of the Earth, Moral and Physical Science, &c.

Smith, Mrs. Mary Stuart [Harrison] Va. Art of Housekeeping, Lang Syne, or The Wards of Mt. Vernon (1889), translations, essays, &c.

Smith, Sarah Henderson Va. Alice Singleton, Up to the Light, Poems (1885).

Smithdeal, George Michael, 1855- edu. N. C., Va. Book-Keeping: Theory and Practice.

Smithdeal, Mrs. Grace Henning D. C., Va. Grammar, Speller, and Letter-Writer.

Sommersall, James Ga. Poems (1853).

Sparks, W. H. Ga. Memories of Fifty Years (1870).

Spragins, Mrs. Anna Ward, -1876 Ala., Tex. Shiloh, Farewell to Texas, and other poems.

Sprunt, James, 1846- merchant, British vice-consul Scotland, N. C. Wilmington (1883), A Colonial Plantation, What Ship is That? (the blockade of Wilmington).

Stevens, William Bacon P. E. bishop Ga. History of Georgia (1847, 1859), Discourses.

Stewart, Frederick Campbell phys. Va. Hospitals and Surgeons of Paris (1843).

Stillman, Anne Raymond S. C., Ala. How They Kept the Faith (story of the Huguenots).

Stockard, Henry Jerome N. C. Poems.

Swartz, Joel, 1827- cl. Va. Dreams of the Waking Heart, Lyra Lutherana.

Swisher, Mrs. Bella French, 1837- ed. Ga., Wis., Tex. History of Brown County, Wis., Struggling Up to the Light (novel), San Antonio River, and other poems.

Taylor, Hannis Ala. History of the British Constitution.

Taylor, William, 1821- bishop Va. Christian Adventures in South Africa, Our South American Cousins, Four Year's Campaign in India, &c.

Thomas, Joseph, 1791- cl. N. C. The Life of the Pilgrim (autobiography).

Thurston, G. P. ---- Antiquities of Tennessee (1890).

Tiernan, Mrs. Mary Spear [Nicholas], 1836-1891 Va., Md. Homoselle, and other novels.

Tiffany, Olive Mo. Floral Poems (1893).

Truitt, Mrs. Julia Phifer La., Tex. Birds of Passage, Sometimes, and other poems.

Tucker, David Holmes edu., phys. Va. Medical writings.

Tucker, Henry St. George, 1780-1848 jurist Va. Commentaries on the Law of Virginia, Constitutional Law, Natural Law and Government, &c.

Tucker, Nathaniel, 1750- Bermuda, Va. The Bermudian (poem, 1774).

Tunstall, Nannie W. Va. "No. 40," and other stories.

Turner, Thomas Sloss, 1860- Ky., Tex. Life's Brevity, and other poems.

Turrentine, Mrs. Mary E. [Arrington], 1834- Ark., Tex. To a Mocking-Bird, and other poems, and sketches.

Tuthill, C. L. ---- Virginia Dare; or, The Colony of Roanoke.

Tuttle, Joseph K. M. E. cl. Mo. Ecce Christus Lectures (1887).

Tyler, John, 1790-1862 tenth President Va. The Dead of the Cabinet, Death of Jefferson, and other addresses and messages.

Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, 1853- edu., ed. Va. Letters and Times of the Tylers (two vols. 1884, a third vol. now in press, 1895), Parties and Patronage in the United States (1891), various literary and historical addresses and papers.

Tyler, Robert, 1818-1877 Va., Ala. Ahasuerus, Death or Medora's Dream (poems), addresses, and other writings.

Upshur, Abel Parker, 1790-1844 Va. Nature and Character of our Federal Government (1840).

Vass, Lachlan Gumming, 1831- Pr. cl. N. C. History of the Presbyterian Church in New Bern, N. C.

Velthusen, Johann Caspar ---- News of the Church in North Carolina (in German, 1786-1792, four reports).

Venable, Charles S., 1827- edu. Va. Mathematical Text-Books (1869-'75).

Venable, Frank Preston, 1856- Va. Chemical Analysis.

Waddell, James D. lawyer Ga. Sketch of Linton Stephens (1877).

Waddell, Joseph Addison, 1823- Va. Annals of Augusta County, and other writings.

Wall, Henry Clay N. C. Historical Sketch of the Pee Dee Guards (1876).

Walter, Thomas, ca. 1745-ca. 1800 England, N. C. Flora Caroliniana (1788, London).

Walton, William Claiborne, 1793- cl. Va. Sermons and Discourses.

Warder, George W. Mo. Utopian Dreams and Lotus Leaves, Eden Dell.

Warrock, John, 1774- Va. Warrock's Almanac (issued annually forty years).

Washington, Bushrod, 1762- Va. Reports of Court of Appeals and of the Circuit Court of the United States (six volumes).

Washington, Lawrence Va. A Romance.

Waterhouse, S. edu. Mo. Resources of Missouri (1867), The Westward Movement of Capital (1890), St. Louis the Site for the World's Fair (1889), &c.

Weaver, W. T. G., 1834-1877 Mo., Tex. Hours of Amusement, Houston's Address to His Men at San Jacinto, Song of the Texas Rangers, The Girl in Red, and other poems.

Weeks, Stephen Beauregard, 1865- historian, edu. N. C. Bibliography of the Historical Literature of North Carolina, Lost Colony of Roanoke, and many other historical papers.

West, Mrs. Florence Duval, -1881 Fla., Tex. Land of the Lotus-Eaters (prose sketches), The Marble Lily, and other poems.

Weston, James A. P. E. cl. N. C. Life of Peter Stuart Ney (1895), Sermons and Memoirs.

Wharey, James, 1789-1842 cl. N. C., Va. Church History from the Birth of Christ to the Nineteenth Century.

White, George, 1802-1887 P. E. cl. S. C. Statistics of Georgia (1849), Historical Collections of Georgia (1854).

Whitsett, William Thornton, 1866- edu. N. C. "Bob White," To a Lark, and other poems.

Whitsitt, William Heth, 1841- Bapt. cl., edu. Tenn., Ky. History of the Baptists, Origin of the Disciples, History of the Wallace Family, &c.

Whitten, Mrs. Martha Elizabeth [Hotchkiss] Tex. The Old Home, Elegy on Dr. Manning, and other poems.

Whittle, Gilberta, 1850- Va. Stories and Essays.

Williams, John G. Bapt. cl. S. C. Invasion of the Moon.

Williamson, Hugh, 1735-1819 phys. N. C. History of North Carolina (1812).

Wilmer, William Holland, 1782-1827 P. E. cl. Va. Controversy with a Jesuit (1818), Sermons, &c.

Wilson, John S. Pr. cl. Ga. Necrology (1869).

Winkler, Mrs. A. V. ed. Va., Tex. Confederate Capitol, Hood's Texas Brigade.

Wingfield, Edwin Maria, 1570- England, Va. Discourse on Virginia.

Wirt, Mrs. Elizabeth Washington [Gamble], 1784-1857 Va. Flora's Dictionary.

Wise, George Va. History of the Seventeenth Virginia Infantry (1870).

Withers, Alexander Scott, 1792-1865 lawyer Va. (kinsman of Sir Walter Scott). Border Warfare.

Wood, Annie C. Va. Diana Fontaine (1891), Westover's Ward (1892).

Wood, John, 1775-1822 Scotland, Va. Rise and Progress of the Revolution, Trial of Aaron Burr, Diurnal Rotation of the Earth, &c.

Woodward, C. M. edu. Mo. History of St. Louis Bridge, City of St. Louis (1892).

Woodward, W. S. M. E. cl. Mo. Annals of Methodism in Missouri (1893).

Wormeley, Ariana Randolph ---- The Coming Woman (a comedy, 1870).

Wormeley, Mary Elizabeth, 1822- England, Va. Forest Hill, Amabel (1853), Our Cousin Veronica (1856), The Steel Hammer (1888).

Wright, Robert England, Ga. Memoirs of General James Oglethorpe (1867).

Wynne, Thomas Hicks, 1820-1875 Va. Historical Documents from the Old Dominion (1860-1874), from the Old North State, Narrative of Col. David Fanning (1861).

Wythe, George, 1726- Va. Decisions of the High Court of Chancery (1795).

Transcriber's Note

Archaic and variable spelling is preserved as printed. Punctuation errors have been repaired.

The following amendments have been made:

Page 14--312 amended to 311--"Osceola, Leader of the Seminoles, 311"

Page 27--Soverignty amended to Sovereignty--"State Sovereignty and Liberty, ..."

Page 31--289 amended to 299--"University of Alabama 299"

Page 31--entries "University of Mississippi 337" and "Arkansas Industrial University 402" were originally immediately preceding the entry for "Mississippi Industrial Institute ... 446". They have been moved to the correct place in the List of Illustrations.

Page 98--inflence amended to influence--"... that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments ..."

Page 125--efflulgence amended to effulgence--"... the purity of his private character gave effulgence to his public virtues."

Page 139--opprobium amended to opprobrium--"... (that opprobrium, in the opinion of some gentlemen, ...)."

Page 243--commere amended to commerce--"... and has proven of immense benefit both to commerce and science."

Page 254--Vasconselas amended to Vasconselos--"... Cassique of Kiawah. Vasconselos, [tale of De Soto.]"

Page 261--repeated 'of' deleted--"... preceded the final insensibility of the victim."

Page 292--repeated 'it' deleted--"... when one half of it is placed under water, ..."

Page 341--scarcly amended to scarcely--"His future was so uncertain--that he scarcely alluded to that ..."

Page 384--fuchias amended to fuchsias--"... and her fingers toyed with the scarlet fuchsias; ..."

Page 391--Maryiand amended to Maryland--"Potomac calls to Chesapeake, Maryland, my Maryland!"

Page 432--Pepworth amended to Pebworth--"Farrier Lass o' Piping Pebworth."

Page 441--grand amended to grande--"He went and married _la grande demoiselle_."

Page 448--omitted 2. added--"2. For what was his daughter Evelyn noted?"

Page 448--omitted 5. added--"5. When was the Farewell Address written?"

Page 448--2. amended to 6.--"_6. Who were presidents before Jefferson?_"

Page 449--Demothenes amended to Demosthenes--"_5. Who were Demosthenes, Ossian, Homer, Milton, Rousseau?_"

Page 449--7. amended to 5.--"_5. When was the University established and opened?_"

Page 450--6. amended to 5.--"5. Where did he die?"

Page 452--4. amended to 3.--"_3. What other writers edited or wrote for the "Messenger"?_"

Page 452--6. amended to 5.--"_5. Mention some other Confederate soldiers who went to Mexico._"

Page 452--5. amended to 6.--"_6. Where is Magnolia Cemetery?_"

Page 453--6. amended to 4.--"_4. Tell something of James Edward Oglethorpe._"

Page 454--2. amended to 3.--"_3. Learn something of their history._"

Page 457--entry "R. C., Roman Catholic." moved to appropriate alphabetical place in list of abbreviations.

Page 461--Addresss amended to Address--"Berrien, John Macpherson, ... Address in Congress."

Page 468--Ninteenth amended to Nineteenth--"War of Ahriman and Ormuzd in the Nineteenth Century, ..."

Page 473--Historie amended to Histoire--"Fortier, Alcée ... Histoire de la Littérature française, ..."

Page 476--Pourqui amended to Pourquoi--"Grima, E. ... Pourquoi Jean Est Resté Garçon."

Page 482--Correspondende amended to Correspondence--"Life and Correspondence of Major-General Greene."

Page 486--Self-Governmant amended to Self-Government--"... Civil Liberty and Self-Government, ..."

Most references to the death date of St. George H. Tucker in the book give a year of 1863; however, the information about his death on page 329 notes that he died in the Seven Days' Battles around Richmond in 1862. Since an alternative source for the date of his death could not be found, all dates remain as printed.

Illustrations have been moved slightly, where necessary, so that they are not in the middle of a paragraph.