The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-08

4 faithful service in this matter. Prof
| Dodd of Randolph Macon College, va.
| but a native of Johnston county, n. g
or Prof Sykes, of Wake Forest College
| could give the State thorough work II
| this direction. Prof. Dabney needs aiC
| from others. and in an address ITO tht
People of the South dated February 6th
| 1908, solicits help He earnestly Appeals
| for the aid and cooperation of al
| persons having accurate knowledge Of
| any facts that would shed light upon that
| period. or who can tell me where OF
| ROW such knowledge may be obtained
Many persons possess books, pamphlets
newspapers or letters giving contempor-
| airy accounts of events from the time OF
| Lincoln's reconstructive experiments
| down to the withdrawal of Federal troops
| from the South by Hayes. Such historical
| material, though comparatively useless in
many cases to its owners, and lying upon
| lusty shelves of garnet floors, would be
| of inestimable value to the historical in
vestigator."
Let all aid who can in this serious, la
borious, important undertaking. He
give or lend books, pamphlets. newspa-
pers, old literature, etc. He writes:
"Many persons who actually lived
through the days of reconstru etion have
knowledge of interesting an! important
incidents that occurred under their own
eyes. These incidents, if unrecorded.
should be recorded now: and | strongly
urge every one who wishes the history
,, Of the South to be based upon facts rath-
er than hearsay, to write and give me
IS many such facts as possible Opinions
concerning the significance of facts Will
also be welcomed.
If furnished in proper light with a
sufficiency of evidence it will be a
damning blot on the North forever. that
turned loose RusselI's "savages" and a
hungry horde of carpet baggers and I'M
principled "scallawags ''-home- traitors
to pillage and devour, to blast ana
sccurge the best white race on the globe.
l hope the efforts of Prof Dabney will
be amply sustained and in all possible
ways.
The man who cannot read the very
popular Latin poet Horace in the origin
al, is loser. If he can get a good, trans
iation he is fortunate indeed. Harvard
University has just sent out a new, COM
plete volume of "Horatius Flaccus" en-
bracing all his writings-Odes Epodes
etc. 1t is edited with commentary by
Clifford H. Moore, professor in Creek
and Latin in that famous institution of
learning. From an interesting notice Of
it / find in the New York Saturday Re-
view, l take an item or two The very
gifted poet is briefly sketched and most
pleasantly as a ''middle-aged bachelor
short of stature, prematurely gray, quick
to take offense, but readily appeased, was
occasionally to be seen about the streets
of ancient Rome in the Augustan epoch,
always walking on the sunny side, and the
people pointed him out to each other as
the great Horace, the lyrical poet"
In A. d. 1908. Horace is a much more
popular poet than he was an hundred
passed away. | learn that even before
the year 1900, not less than seventy edi-
tions of his works had been published.
Since then no doubt scores of editions
have followed. 1t is truly said that @his
Influence upon modern writer's of lyric
verse has been powerful" I know an
English gentleman of fine culture,
graduate of Cambridge, who could quote
adj libitum from Horace, giving the COM
plete Odes. J asked him how he learned
them? He said it was whipped into him
at one of the great English preparatory
schools. q forget which), for making
false quantities. He had to commit to
memory fifty or sixty lines if he made a
false quantity in his regular recitation.
| had told him of Sir Patrick Edgar an
English Baronet who resided in Gran
VILE county when | was a boy. | saw
him repeat exactly and off-hand from
the Eclogues Georges and the Aeneid
of Virgil as the places We're selected by
a fine Latinist, the late admirable Mr..
John G. Taylor, who lived two miles from
Oxford on his farm, and was the very
best master in Shakespeare | have ever
met, not excepting DR.. Henry f. Shop
herd, a North Carolinian of rare accom-
plishments, and the finest technical
scholar in Shakespeare and English [
know or ever knew. The notice referred
to states that there care at the present
day more good manuscripts of his pre-
served than of any other Latin writer,
except Virgil. and they number about $50.
In the new edition of his works by Cliff
ford Herschel Moore, there is a detailed
description of these various manuscripts
and an introduction covering the life of
Horace and his position with his con-
temporaries and posterity, together with
extensive commentary. This is not
translation remember, but the original
Latin.
THEODORE BRYANT KINGSBURY.
Wilmington, N. c.. March 6, 1903