RICHARD MALCOLM JOHNSTON.--1. What people are described in his stories? _2. Who are they, and what are such people called in London, in North Carolina, and in different other States?_ 3. Who was Mr.
Ellington?
JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON.--1. Of what magazine was he editor from 1847 to 1859? 2. Who were some of its contributors? _3. What other writers edited or wrote for the "Messenger"?_ _4. Who was Ashby?_
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 Inst.i.tute 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 Inst.i.tute?_ _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 t.i.tle 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 t.i.tle 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 COLc.o.c.k 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 t.i.tle? 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. Mitch.e.l.l"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 pa.s.sage of Grady"s does the extract ill.u.s.trate?
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.
AMeLIE 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.