The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-04-21
Early History of Mississippi De-
tailed and Analyzed in James
MILFORD Gamers Book.
WILLIAM ARCHER ON IBsEN.
Brings Out a New Edition of the
"Seer's" Prose Dramas-Fas-
cinating Mystery of Gro
atan" Explained.
REpi'EIIc

Mississippi by James MILFORD Garner. is
10 be published Immediately by the Mac
milan Company. Advance sheets are now
before us. The primary purpose Of this
book is to give a detailed and critical study
Of the actual working out in its different
~phases-political. economic, social and legal
of the so-ca;led presidential and congress
s!onal policies of reconstruction in Missis-
sippi.
AS a sort OF preliminary study, the author
has devoted several chapters to the period
of secession and Civil War. Here he dis
cusses briefly but succinctly the develop
ment of the secession sentiment, the Lead
Ing military campaigns and raids. the po-
litical and economic aspects of the war,
government of occupied territory by the
military commanders, the development OF
the peace sentiment, the final collapse of
I the Confederacy and the public and private
law status at the conclusion of peace.
The chapters on the presidential policy
! deal with the administration of Provisional
Governor Sharkey, the reconstruction con-
vention Of 1865, conflicts between the civil
and military authorities and the status OF
freedmen in 1866.
Overthrow Of Carpetbnggers.
In succeeding chapters the author dis
cusses the economic problems of reconstruc-
tion, the congressional policy of reconstruc-
tion. including the military administrations
of Generals Slocum. Wood, Ord. Gillem, Nc
Dowell and Ames: the registration of the
new electorate and the reconstruction CON-
vention of 1865. politics in 1851. 1858 ana 1869;
the Freedmen's Bureau and the re-estaO-
lishment of civil government in 1870.
Relieving 1t necessary to an intelligent
judgment Of the merits or dement's of the
congressional policy. the author has carried
his narrative dow to the overthrow of the
carpetbaggers, an event locally known as
the revolution Of 1875. In the treatment Of
the carpetbag episode. he discusses in detail
and Ames, the extravaganza of the officials,
the riots and race conflicts. the kuklux
troubles. educational reconstruction. the
great election campaign of 1875. the I'M
parchment Of State officials and Demo-
cratic reform legislation Of 1876.
New Edition Of Ibsen's PrOse Dramas.
The first three volumes of a new edition
Of Ibsen's prose dramas. under the super
vision of William Archer. the dramatic crit
ic. have just made their appearance. THESE
sompr!se ~. THE . beasue Of Of Y su,Fs, "A P Rars
volume has, as a frontispiece. a costume
portrait of one or more Of the actors who
took part in the presentation of the play.
Ibsen, thinks Mr.. Archer. Is more of a seer
''He has flashes of intense insight into the
f basiness To build Si an up an Ordered ord re i sy S1an tr al
closely mortised ediice Of thought. Truth
is to him many sided. and he looks at, It
from this side to-day. from the opposite side
tomorrow.
The people who seek to construct a
gospel a consistent body of doctrine, from
IL ms .e WerSIi nse By turns and nothing long:
he Is neither an individualist nor q social
list. neither an aristocrat nor q democrat.
neither an optimist nor a pesstmtst. He Is
simply a dramatist. looking with piercing
eyes at the world Of men and women and
translatins into poetry this episode and that
What MD ~ssCr0atnHV Mean?
mysteries in the early Col1.ial history Of
America Is c%onjured up by the word
In 1857 John White was sent out by Sir
Walter Raleigh to be Governor Of an ag.
ricultural State which he was to found a, IN
mouth. England. on April 26. and reached
The island Of Roanoke. irglnia IN July; In
ter and her husband. an assistant Of the
name Of Dare. About a month after the ar
rival Of the expedition. a daughter was
born to the couple. who was christened Nir'
sinia.
lean annals, because she who bore 1t was
the tn th first Ns child w OF EnS Eine 9ays AFTER 0f her
birth. Governor White sailed for ENGLAND.
When he returned q year later. all vesuges
scription on the bark Of a tree with but the
single word. "Croatan."
This was supposed to be the name OF a
place inhabited by friendly Indians Whither
the colonists had betaken themselves. But
All search was baffled. Croatan was never
found. All sorts of stories were circulated
to explain the disappearance OF the colon
lists.
bancroft thus summarizes the most prob
able OF them:
Fiction Explains a Mystery.
1.-THE conjecture has been hazarded that
tho deserted colony. neglected by their own
countrymen. were Hospitality adopted into
the tribe of Hatteras Indians. and became
amalgamated with the sons Of the forest.
This was the tradition of the natives at a
later day, and was thought to be confirmed
by the physical character Of the tribe In
which the English and the Indian race
seemed to have been blended.
Raleigh long cherished the hope Of dis
covering some vestiges of their existence.
and, though he had abandoned the design
of colonizing Virginia. he yet sent. at his
own charge. and, it is said. five several
times, to search for his liegemen. But 1t
was all in vain: imagination received no
help in its attempts to trace the fate of the
colony OF Roanoke"
lieve that a massacre occurred. by which
many of the English suffered death at the
hands of hostile savages. and the remain
der were taken prisoners.
Now comes Mr.. William Farquhar Pay
con with a novel entitled John, Vytal'
of fiction. he offers an explanation OF the
colony's end which is romantic and ingen-
ious. Christopher Marlowe, the dramatist.
is introduced as one of the characters. and
is drawn with a good deal Of viGor and
some verisimilitude
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