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.
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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.
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