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sion OF Spain, the dark fate OF RodericE, and the
81. The Damsel OF Darieu. story Of the dis
coyerer OF the Pacific, the celebrated Vasco Nunez
| de Balboa.
49, The Lily and the Totem. A story of the Hu-
| guenots In Florida.
&c. Vasconcelos. In which We flud the story OF
De Soto In Florida. This novel was published
under the nom de plume OF Frank Cooper; de-
vice to determine, it Is said. how much the i'm.
mense popularity ofthe authors works depended
upon his name. The book was o success, without
the adventitious aid OF an already famous name.
40. Carl Werner. A novel in the style Of Martin
Faber returning to inner life.
| Al. Confession OF the Blind Heart.
A. The Wigwam and the Cann.
49, Marie de Berniere. A tale Of the Crescent
| City.
A. History Of South Carolina.
As. South Carolina in the Revolution. critt-
cal and argumentative work, corrective OF certain
erl ors and oyersights in history.
46. Geography Of South Carolina. This work
was prepared, also was the history Of the State,
as an aid in the education OF the authors daugh'
| ter.
! Al Life OF Francis Marion. Abiography as fas-
ctnating and attractive as fiction.
49, Life Of John Smith. biography Of the hero
OF the Pocahontas.P s.Powhattan episode In Virginia
| history.
49, Life of Chevaler Bayard.
so. Life Of General Greene.
81. Father Abbot, or the Home Tourist. A med
ley-sketches OF Southern scenery, society, feel
| ings and fancies.
S. Southwark Ho +! IN which party Of travel
lers discuss Southern themes, peoples, scenes and
things generally. 1t has been styled species Of
| DecamerOn.
S. Paddy Mccain, or the Demon OF the Stump.
A humorous novel, published In the Southern IL
| lustrated News, in 1858 or 1864.
| 3d. Joscelyn: A Tale OF the Revolution. serial
| tale, published In the Old Guard early In 1867.
This appears TO be rather favorable specimen OF
Mr.. Simms's war novels.
S. Views aud Reviews Of American History,
Literature and Art. A collection ofgraver papers
critical biographical and discursive.
56 Egeria, or Voices OF Thought and Counsel
for the Woods and Wayside. A thesaurus OF
aphorisms and brief thoughts and fancies, thrown
together In the style OF Goethe's Opinions, or OF
| Montesquieu's Pensees Diverses.
81. The Morals OF Slavery. series Of papers
published in the Southern Literary Messenger,
| and then envolumed, with other able essays by
other authors on cognate points, in WorS entl-
| tied The Pro.Slavery Argument.
5S War Poetry OF the South collection OF
| lyrics by Southern pOets-appeared late IN 1885,
This Is O valuable book but indicates some care
lessness In preparation, and has good many
SO. Reviews. These have not been gathered In
| volumes yet, but would fill several While edi-
| tor OF the Southern Quarterly Review, Mr.. Simms
wrote the greater part OF several issues; and ne
always supplied the shortcomings Of his contri.
butors, by writing largely for every number while
he had editorial charge. He contributed liber-
er, Orion, Graham's Magazine Godey's Lady's
Book, American Quarterly, and many others; be-
sides editing the Southern Literary Gazette, The
Magnolia, The Southern and Western Monthly
Magazine and Review, and no doubt others, long
er since forgotten than some OF these.
90. Orations. Stated, elaborate, and numer-
ons.
0l. Lectures. Course OF lectures on Poetry and
the Practical; on Hamlet; and single lectures TOO
numerous to enumerate.
g.. Historical and social sketch OF Craven Coun-
ty.
SO. The Star. Brethren and other stories.
m Maintain
the old North State; was copyrighted In 1853, ana
published In serial in The Illuminated western
World In 1869.
65. The Cub of the Panther. A mountain le-
gend; published In serial In The Old Guard, 1869.
Marti,, Faber, his first prose work, brought
Mr.. Slmms fairly before the public. The book
was decidedly successful, and Its success was
richly deserved. The story of guilty love, of
the cry of blood from the mute earth, of the
mysterious law By which the bloody hand of the
murderer is made to point to his own bosom;
these things are shown with graphic power.
From year to year, sometimes from month to-
month, he threw off his rapid series of fictions;
now dealing with the aboriginal characters of
American life; now depicting the achievements
ofknlght and int1del; now amid the glades of
Florida; now in the wild freedom of the West
over the whole wide range of Southern and
Southwestern American life. But, as Mr.. Da-
wilson remarks, she was most at home In the
Revolutionary times, when war, and craft, and
treachery, and love, and death, ruled the hour;
or In the older and pre-revolutionary times,
when the stalwart and sturdy Indian yet
struggled with bloody hands for his erstwhllc
tpta nd n
from the pale faces" AS to the high order of
his ability as q prose writer, there. is no differ
ence Of opinion.
Edgar Poe said of Mr. Simms: "He has more
uigor, more imagination, more nsouems'1 Gnd
more general capacity than all our noueltsts
(save Cooper) combined" Duyckinck, than
whom there is no cooler critic, says OF Mr..
Simms: s'As novelist he Is vigorous in de-
lineation, dramatic in action, poetic in his de-
scription of scenery, a master OF plot, and
skilled in the arts Of the practiced story-Leller."
In every home in South Carolina the romances
of Mr.. Slmms have found pleasant resting
place. Well might Mr.. Davidson write that
while s'Cooper has the advantage in character
izatlon and plot, Mr.. Simms hasclearly the ad-
vantage in the energy of action, variety of
situations, and, perhaps, In literal truthful
ness of dellneatlon."
As historiographer Mr.. Simms accom-
plished just what he proposed-a readable his
tory of South Carolina for the young, some
thing of less ''immemorlal dust and dignity"
than Ramsay aud Carroll, and something of far
less research than Rivers
AS o biographer, Mr.. Simms produced four
credtable volumes-enough, in themselves, to
have made the reputation of a man of less
note.
AS poet, Mr.. Simms wrote very largely. Be-
sides his long poems-Atalantis, the CaSSique
of 1ccabee, Donna Florida, and the Vision Of
Cortes-he wrote two dramas, and hundreds If
not thousands of lyrics, sonnets, ballads, odes,
idylls, canzonets and other minorp poems. Ata-
lantis is generally considered the best Of his
narrative poems. as will be seen by the follow
ing extracts from an article published in the
Southern Literary Messenger for May, 1851.
The writer, who Is Charleston gentleman OF
great culture and admirable taste, says:
"a scholar OF no mean attalnments in litera
ture and OF cultivated critical skill, pronounced
the .Atalantis' OF Mr.. Slmms not unworthy OF
as poem and work of art, with
t,o Icomnst Of Milton ypor and