The Chilhowee echo. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1899-19??, 1900-03-24

poems, was published in 1865. Her
poems of the war have an added note of
sadness that only heaven can cure.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis and daughter
were for years acceptable co-workers in
periodical literature. The January num-
Der of the Arena contains an able paper
by Mrs. Davis on "Why we do not need
the Philippines" Her study and un-
derstanding of State rights and govern
ment is evidenced in her Memoir of her
husband, and every Southern woman
feels a warm personal interest in all her
efforts and successes.
Marion Harland became household
name almost half a century ago, when
all school girls, and many of the read
ing public of that day, bent eagerly
over her books; "Alone," "The Hidden
PATH" and others following on, without
break; pure, wholesome stories, until
1900. And now we will have her new
book, "Of More Colonial Homesteads,"
their histories, portraits and home life,
making volume of pleasing remin-
iscence for their living generations,
and a lasting monument to the indus
try of woman of seventy years.
Mary Noilles Murfree brings with
her first introduction to Tennessee
mountain dialect and people. She
makes fresh, living pictures with deli
cate finish, touching their characters
as diamonds in the rough.
In cottage upon crag, near Beer
sheba, in the Tennessee mountains,
looking down and far away to the fall.
ing foothills, now dim in darkening
shadows, now crimson in the glowing
sunset, or silvery with the opening
day, she caught the inspiration which
gave us the prophet of the Great
Smokes"
Her powers of description seem vast
as the changing mountains, the lights
and shadows and glints of which, we
have so often watched, and which she
has so beautifully voiced. "1n the Ten
nesse Mountains" "In the Clouds"
and other books, maintain the reputa-
tion she so quickly gained
In the san me, is Will Allen D.cmzl
goole, in p - =
smooth, fair skaal ing, az the fine
honor of her hero, so gently pressed,
leaves with you the sense of clear, rum
ming water. "The Heart of Old Hick-
ory," Hero Chums," and later Rare
Old Chums," are some of her other
! works.
Grace King, in her short story, "Mon-
sieur Motte,'' gives in true pathos, the
faith and love of the old black nanny
to the babe, the young mistress sud-
denly orphaned and thrown helpless in
her arms. Miss King interprets with
fine understanding, that peculiar
adoring love, which existed only in the
Southern civilization of that day. The
vividness of her pen pictures, makes
real the beautiful girl graduate look
ing for that unknown uncle-only a
merciful fiction of old mammy's,-to
take her home, and the agony, shame,
and hiding of the loving old nurse,
that now her darling would know her
secret and ''die of shame" that she
had been cared for only by ''niggar."
Miss King gives a glow of beauty to
the faithful old heart that becomes a
memorial to us of some such love that
enveloped our childhood. To series
of books called makers of America"
contributed by our best authors, Miss
King has added one, a history of the
early settlement of Louisiana by the
French Canadians. Their courage, per-
sistence and ultimate success is told in
an attractive, forcible way, and with
careful exactness. Her place in South
ern literature is assured.
Ruth McEnery Stuart, like Miss
King, is a Louisanian by birth. Mrs.
Stuart is true and natural in dialect
writing. First living in Louisiana, and
later, on plantation in Arkansas, she
was thoroughly acquainted with negro
customs, habits and superstitions, Her
ear seemed to catch some rythm in the
negro tongue; her conception and her
imagination, finding apt expression in
their peculiar idiom. She carried in
terest and sympathy to the lowly, mea-
gre lives of these simple folks. When
in "Uncle Moses Christmas" he finds
the dime in the little sack Of buck
wheat, as "old mistis' used to fix it,
his burst of tears and JOY, that his old
mistis' is found at last, we know is
real
Sarah Barnwell Elliott's romance of
the Cumberland mountains begins, as
does her book Jerry, upon train Of
deep emotional force,' nor lessons its
firm hold and continued pressure of
interest until the story ends. The
high, free spirit and lofty ideals of the
heroine the leaden life of ignorance
made to glow with patient strength, is
wonderfully woven together, in lines
frpo symatr;c and charming