The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-10-13
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SOUTHERN LITERATURE: BY Louise
Manly. Illustrated. B. f. Johnson

Manly. Illustrated. B. f. johnson
Co. Richmond.
For sale by West. Johnston & Co.
Messrs d. F. Johnson and Company
are TO be congratulated upon the excel.
lence OF this latest admirable textbook
of the series published by them. endeay.
oring to do Justice TO the history. social po
lltical, and literary, OF the South. Each
succeeding book OF this character makes
their discrimination most happily evident
The author OF the present volume states
in her preface that its primary object II
10 furnish our children with material for
becoming better acquainted with the de-
velopment OF American LIE and history
as found In Southern writer's and their
works; that IL may servo az a reader
supplementary to American history ami
literature, or be made the groundwork
for serious study Of Southern lie and let
tiers, and that between these extremes
there are varying degrees OF usefulness.
We think IL is in the second OF these
connections 1t will be most generally used
and of most value, serving the purpose
through a really fascinating and discrim-
native medium Of compilation, linked to-
gether with just Sufficient comment by
the author to suggest and make clear
the points.
Among the writer's quoted are: Period
I-l579-l7J0-John Smith, VIM. Strachey.
John Lawson, and VIM. Byrd. Period II.
--l750-lS00-Henry Laurens, George wash
ington, Patrick Henry. William Henry
Drayton. Thomas Jefferson, David Ram
say, James Madison, ST. George Tucker.
John Marshall, Henry Lee, Mason Locke
Weems, John Drayton. William Wit
John Randolph. and George Tucker. Pc
riod III.-lS00-i& 0-Henry Clay, Francis
Scott Key, John James Audubon. Thomas
Hart Benton, John Caldwell Calhoun.
Nathaniel Beverley Tucker. David Crock
EFT. Richard Henry Wilde, Augustus
Baldwin Longstreot. Robert Young
Hayne, General Samuel Houston. Vim. G.
Preston, John Pendleton kennedy, Hugh
Swinton Legare, Mirabeau Buonnpafte
Lamar. Francis Lister Hawks. George
Denison Prentice. Edward Coate Pinkney,
Charles Etenne Arthur Gayarre. Mat
thew Fontaine Maury, William Gilmore
Simms, Robert Edward Lee, Jefferson
Davis. Edgar Allan Poe, Robert ToomNs.
Octayia Walton lie Vert, Louisa Susan
nah McCord Joseph @. Baldwin. Alex
ander Hamilton stephens, Alexander
Beaufort Meek, Philip Pendleton Cooke,
and Theodore 0'Hsra. Period IN-lS5o-
lS95-George Rainsford Fairbanks, Rich
ard Malcolm Johnston, John Reuben
Margaret J. Preston, Charles Henry
Smith. st. George IL. Tucker, George v.
Baeby, Sarah Anne Dorsey, Henry TIN
rod, Paul Hamilton Hayne. John Es,en
Cooke. ZeDulon Baird Vance, Albert Pike.
VIM. T. Thompson, James Barron Hope.
james Wood Davidson. Charles Coloook
Jones. Mary Y. Terhune. Augusta Evans
wilson Daniel Bedinger Lucas, James
Ryder Randall. Abram Joseph Ryan, VIM.
Gordon McCabe. Sidney Lanior James
Lane Allen. Joel Chandler Harris, Rob
EFT Burns Wilson. Christian Reid Hen
~ Woodhn Grady. Thomas Nelson Page
Charles Egbcrt Craddock. Danske Dan
bridge. Amelie Rlves chanler. Grace
King, Waitman Barhe, and Madison CO
vein.
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This is a novel presenting all the quail
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tiles. IT is the unwholesome story 81 a
HES deception by d mother toward a
SON 10 hide personal dishOnor, ana 10
avert his marriage with the girl he loves.
II is needless TO say 10 the readers or
Miss Broughton's books that, however, he
marrles that same girl the revelation or
his mothers secret and her sudden death
having facilitated that conclusion.
sYIPs or sPEEcH BY John II. Bech-
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This is one Of n valuable series OF books
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lar among aspirants 10 accuracy ~ SPEAK
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the Handbook Of Pronunciation" ana
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This last volume has its information SO
intelllgCntly classified and so closely con
aensel that It's merits will be sure TO ap-
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PADDY OLEAREY AND HIS LEARN
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author ~ "rhe witch Winnie Books
"The Vassar Girls" etc Illustrated
hv +. y. Steele Dodd. Mead Co.
81.
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The story Of his wanderirys with his
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10 ulay part IN the little comedy which
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reached with stroke which the author
nj Handy Andy might have been proud
OF While Mrs. Champney has had her
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THE WAY or A MAID: A novel. BY
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