This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...By Carl Hollidav, M. A. 406 pp. Cloth, $2.50, postage, 20 cents. New York: The Neale Publishing Company. 1906. Professor Hollidav's book establishes beyond question his contention that the South has produced a literature so distinctive in its fundamental conception and growth as to deserve separate ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...By Carl Hollidav, M. A. 406 pp. Cloth, $2.50, postage, 20 cents. New York: The Neale Publishing Company. 1906. Professor Hollidav's book establishes beyond question his contention that the South has produced a literature so distinctive in its fundamental conception and growth as to deserve separate attention. This "Historv of Southern Literature" is the first effort to give the connected story of the development of the literature of the South from its earliest days to the present time--a worthy undertaking worthily performed. Beginning with "A True Relation of Virginia," written in 1607 by Captain John Smith, Professor Holliday reviews the work of nearlv ISO distinctively Southern writers, including, of course, many of minor importance, but including in the list, also, such conspicuous names as Poe, Timrod, Harris, Hayne, Ryan, Lanier, Hopkinson Smith, Murfree, and Page, together with others that are well known, though less prominent. Professor Holliday's appreciations of the work of the writers whom he discusses are generally just, and his book as a whole is a useful contribution to American literary history. w. h. h. The Life Of Charles A. Dana. With portrait. By Tames Harrison Wilson. 545 pp. Cloth. $3.00, net. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1907. As one of the four or five great journalists of this country, Charles A. Dana won a reputation that has made his name a household word. Many who have admired the genius of the famous editor of the New York Sun, however, do not fully realize that as a public man, and particularly as assistant secretary of war under Stanton, he was one of the most influential men of his time. General Wilson first met Mr. Dana in the spring of 1863, during the Vicksburg campaign, and served...
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