Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-05-21

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ING copies. The table of contents IS
strikiuely southern in character ana Tore
bodies that this Reriesc may become the
organ Of what is best and brightest IN
southern letters and thought. Az any
rate. this may be called their south
ern number. Three (out of sevenll
articles have actually the term South
OF southern in the titles. These arc
"H,cher Education in the South" by
President Henry T.. Shepherd. OF Charles
ton College. South Carolina; "A Southern
Poet" by William Norman Guthrie, OF
KENYON College, Ohio, md Historical
Studies in the south Since the War" oy
Professor ]. Il. Henneman, of Hampden-
Sidney College.
President Shepherds article discusses
tho true AIMS of higher education III the
Sonth and many of tho attendant pitfalls
and Inherent defects IN our educational
system. -,
The "Southern Poet reviewed. is Mr..
Madison Gavin, of Louisville. The arti-
Gle IL critical-.ven severe In parts de-
nying TO :his new poet any claim to belng
considered either southern or ma
tional" -and vet we feel IL IS sympathetic
in temperament. The third article mem
toned IL q survey of the conditions ana
character of tho work accomplished IN
southern history in the period since the
war. The part ascrbed 10 Virginia is
relatively very credltable.
The leading article on The Teaching OF
English Literature might we'll be asso-
ciated with these, because it evidently
the professor of English at Sewanee, and
hence Is especially applicable TO our
southern conditions and educational
needs. There are some telling points
scored. but after all, any definite me
thod" ofteaching literature is simply part
of the personality of the teacher, which
must always be the leading factor
The remaining three articles are lite
rsrv, economical. and biographical. one IN
each kind: A parallel between Saul and
Macbeth" signed n. w. Il. the condition
Of Miners and Iron-Workers at Home
and Abroad" by Professor b. ". Wells. Of
review of DIR. f.. II. l.. Gould's
recent publication in the Johns HopL7ns
University Studies: sketch of The
Reverend James De Koven. ID. d."
Several lesser reviews and minor notices
conclude the contents of the No.-one of
the latter notices being the last volume of
the Southern Historical Society issued
through Mr.. r. A. Brock. its secretary.
Quarterly Historical Papers, No. 4, edited by
Lyon q. Tyler, NJ. A., closes the first
volume Of this merltorious publication.
The nature OF the contents is, as usual.
data and copies from original
MSS. This No. has the following John
Washington on a Trading Voyage in the
East Country" by w. G.. Stanard "Vir-
ginia Under the Commonwealth" by the
Editor; The Ohio Company by Kate Ma
sou Rowland; Princess Anne County Mar
rage Bonds" by Edward w. james; Ped
igree of Representative Virginia Planter
edward Dlgges. Esq. by the Editor:
" journal of the Meetings Of the President
and Masters of William and Mary College"
continued; Virginia Threads for the Flu
ture Historians" by Edward d. Neill;
- Item on the Carrngton Family" Hen
~ Woodhouse." by Edward W. james; be-
sides sundry historical notes.