The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-10-18
LITERARY NOTES.
AN HOUR WITH NEW BOOKS AND
BOOK ERS.
Current Criticism OF Books, Magazines,
Authors, and HubliShe ers---N hat the .
W orId Reads.

Current Criticism OF Books, Magazines.
Authors, and fublishers---N hat the
orld Reads.
We have heretofore failed to note the
fact that MIR THEo H HILL, Raieigh'S poet
and author, has become editor of the Cen
tenary, a monthly published at Florence,
S. G., by REV \. ". MOORE His connec-
ton with the paper began with the Octo-
Der issue which is filled to the brim with
choice reading. Mr. HILL has the genuine
love Of letters that is needed for the d Ii
cult undertaking he has in hand He writes
easily and elegantly is familiar with the
works of the best authors, especially those
IN the South; has good literary taste and
a fine perception of the humor and quaint
expressions that make such delightful
part of our Southern literature But more
than these, he has a patriotic desire to res
cue from oblivion all that is good and dis
tinctlve southern literature, and to foster
a love for il among the younger genera
ton
The need for a Southern literary month
y which shall invite the contributions of
our best brain and culture is felt by very
many With a medium that will be an in
centive to authorship, the long dormant
literary talent in the South will be awak-
ened 10 activity, and new intellectual
life Will be upon US TO bless and to cheer
and 10 enrich the whole South. TOO long
already" 10 quote the words of PROF K.
Jrpy,
publishers for our newspapers, our literary
journals and our books. They usually
come to us with an anti southern twaus,
displaying ignorance of Southern society
and an Inability to do full justice to South
ern character, talent and achievement.
We need in the South a literature eminent
ly Southern in tone Southern people
should write their OWL history, their own
philosophy. their own politics Sectional
prejudice diStorts facts, iIvtats tieuons,
colors thought, moulds expression; 80 that
man educated IN Southern sentiments,
aud accustomed 10 Sout hern modes of ex
preston, seldom arises from reading
Northern production touching some ques-
ton at issue between the sections without
feeling hat he has been insulttd. These
remarks are not made in any uDcharltable
spirit. Northern people are not worse
than other people; Yet they are nothing
but human beings, with all the frailtieo Of
human beings. Southern people are not
ufallible: far from II. But No'thcra pao-
pie are Northern, and Southern peop.e are
Southern. They differ widely in opinion
and animus In the North We see much
to admire and initiate. But the time has
come for new declaration Of indepen
deIce, a new secession. new rebell9Q-a
fresh revolt against Northern dictstion
and domination. The time has come for
the organization OF a Southern Confe.iera
cy of thought and culture. 1t Us throw
of the yoke Of the HARRIET STOVES. GIL
BERT HORENS ard omne genus Of the MRS
! CANFIELD kind Southwark let the >,a. of
! literary empire take its way
We hope that the Centenary viii be bros, .
enough and able enough to fill the need.
It cannot fill the need unless its patronage
is large. Il is published monthly al 81 GO
per year. at Florence, 5. c. At least two
thousand people in North Carolina ought
| to subscribe for it.