Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-11-22
The South Carolina College.

i. M. Logan, CuArieStoup
A. c.. Haskell, Abbeville,
H. R. Garden, Sumter,
j. R. Thomson, Spartanburg,
w. T. Norwood, Abbeville,
R. N. Chatham. Abbeville,
C. B. Prentiss, Colleton.
J. Y. Sanders, Louisiana,
]. D. Anderson, Spartanburg,
P. W. Mills, Sumter.
The Examination Of the undergraduates com
mences in a day or two. That of the Grsdu'
ates was searching in the extreme and whoever
has fairly passed it deserves his diploma.
The public exercises this year are expected to
be unusually interesting.
Hopes For.
N. P. Willis, in a little poem called "To Her
who has Hopes for Me-" says -
"Night comes, with love upon the breeze,
And the calm clock strikes, Silly, 'ten.'
I start to hear it beat, for then
know that thou art on thy knees
And, at that hour, where'er thou be,
Ascends to heaven a prayer for me!
WY utd|l uTOpS " u OCuuCu
The mirth upon my lip is dumb-
Yet, as a thought of heaven would come,
There glides, before it, one of thee"
Obituary.
The Marion Star of last week gets off the fol-
lowing:
"Died-Ihe United States of America, born
on the 4th of July l776. Died on the 9th Novem.
Der 1860; aged IS years."
Our friend has got the Start of events, and is
Fairlee ahead of the times. The obituary event
in point may occur on the 18th of December
On the 9th of November it was admonished by
a stroke of something like paralysis that its shat.
tered constitution could not hold out much long
er-that it could not endure another link. on the
80 long.
The Man about Torn, like the immortal Web
ster, 'still lives"
Books.
The haudaomest book Of the year is "Women
of the South distinguished in Literature" by
Mary Forrest. 1t is got up in the finest gift.
book style, illustrated with portraits on steel,
bound in Morocco, gilt, and in all respects o fine
book-richly beautiful. 1t is from the press of
Derby and Jackson, New York; over 500 pages,
a small quarto.
If anybody wishes to make a handsome and
appropriate memento- present to a lady for to a
contributing editor)-one worthy a lady, even a
Southern beauty-this is just the book. 1t is a
book for the drawing.room.
There are seven exquisite portraits-Mrs.
LeVert, Mrs. Richie, Miss Mcintosh, Marion
Harland, MRS. Terhune,) Mrs. Rosa V. John,
son., Miss Augusta Evans, and Mrs. Virginia
French. They are all good but that of Mrs.
Richie, one of her friends assures US, is per
feet; and that of Miss Evans is fine.
There are thirty-six literary biographical
sketches, each with specimens. OF these, FIVE
are Carolinians by residence Nurses. McCord,
Gilman, and Howard and Misses Lee, and
Cheeseborough. Several others were born in
South Carolina, but reside elsewhere; as,-
Mrses. Jacobus, Shindler, D%innies, and Du.
Bose.
Madame LeVert occupies the position of
greatest prominence. Beulah Evans of Mobile,
Marion Harland of Virginia, Mrs. Phelps of
Baltimore, Miss Reedy of Mississippi, Mrs.
Southworth Of Virginia, Miss Blount of Georgia,
are all names that we see and hear every day.
To our own mind, this great variety of sub
ject is per1aded by o beautiful principle of
unity-the peculiar genius of "Mary Forrest. "
Delicately appreciative of beauty and truth,
clear, cultured, and feminine, her spirit readily
finds itself in sympathy with its subject and
her gift of expression is by no means ordinary.
The first time we ever saw the lame "Mary
Forrest" (of course it is a nom de plume) was
with a little poem in one of our magazines
The thrill of exquisite pleasure that poem gave
US gave the lame a permanent place in our
memory. Since then, in her own presence, we
have found that our impression was sustained