The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-25
NORTH CAROLINA BOOKS
PUBLISHED DURING 1902
Before State Literary Society by Professor
d. II. Hill.
d. III. Hill.


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Prof. G.. l.. Raper, of the State Uni
versity. is the author of North Carolina:
a Royal Province" This is an octave
volume of seventy-three pages from the
press of the University. 1t discusses the
government under the crown, the C0un-
ell, the Lower House, the conflict be
tween the executive and the legislative
branches. Prof Raper has also revised
the first edition of his Church and Pri-
vate Schools of North Carolina
The rare success of the North Caro-
lima Booklet was one of the noteworthy
features OF the year. It's publication was
doubtfully but bravely undertaken by
the North Carolina Society of the Daugh-
tiers of the Revolution. These ladies
were singularly happy in the selection
of their editors, Mrs. Hubert Haywood
and Miss Martha H. Haywood whose un-
Tagging energy and business tact ran
its monthly edition up to six hundred
numbers. This little magazine presented
from May, 1901, to May, 1902, twelve sin
gle booklets on North Carolina history.
These booklets varied in size from DR.
Creecy's seven-page one on Betsy
Dowdy's ride TO James Sprunt's vivid
one hundred and twelve page booklet
Or rather book-on Tales of the Cape
Fear Blockade" The booklet was started
upon it's second year and every one hopes
that it may grow in length of days and
extent of usefulness.
The James Sprunt monographs of State
history under the supervision of that dis
tinguished veteran in patriotic work DR..
Kemp p. Battle, are commendable addi
tions to our historic literature. So far
three of these monographs have been
issued
Mr.. Moses N. Anis, of Raleigh, has put
much useful information in a little book
called Historic Raleigh"
II. Books finished or about finished in
1902, but not yet through the press:
DR.. w. E. Dodds elaborate life of Ma
thaniel Macon will, l am told, go to
press this year. Dr. Dodd has been en-
gagged upon this work for some years.
Mr.. Marshall Delaney Haywood, Lib
rarian of the Agricultural and Mechan-
zeal College, is now reading the proof
CT large book upon Governor William
Tryon and his Administration in the
Province of North Carolina. 1765-1771.D
| DR. Stephen B. Weeks announces as in
preparation THE Life and Times of Will
| lie P. Mangum, Senator of North Caro-
lima and President of the United States
| Senate"
| Mrs w P. McCorkle, of Savannah, Ga,
has in press a neat little volume of
North Carolina history stories for chill
dren.
Major w. A. Graham, of Lincoln coun-
| ty, is about ready to publish a very
| full biography of his stout hearted
grandfather General Joseph Graham, of
Revolutionary activity. This book will
also include military study of the cam
paigns of Western North Carolina.
Captain Robert D. Graham has in press
history of the Regulator Movement
and the Mecklenburg Declaration of In
dependence
DR.. ]. B. Alexander, of Charlotte an
nounces that his history of Mecklenburg
county is now about ready for distribu-
ton.
Mr.. D. A. Tompkins is also engaged
upon a history of Mecklenburg county.
| Capt S. A. Ashe in collaboration with
his sister has now ready for publica-
ton a school history of North Caro-
| lima.
| Miss Adelaide L. Fries is engaged upon
| history of the Moravian Settlement at
| Savannah.
| Prof G.. L. Raper writes me that he
now has ready for the Macmillan Press
an octave volume of $50 pages upon the
! subject North Carolina: a Study in Eng
lish Colonial Government 1663 IT'D
III Historical pamphlets printed dur
ing 1902:
The Guilford Battle Ground Company
| printed Mr.. Thomas Pittmans address
! en- Nathaniel Macon. This pamphle
contains nineteen pages
| Mr.. D. A. Tompkins printed a fifty
three page pamphlet on the Cotton Gin.
! The History of it's Invention" This con-
tains drawings and specifications of the
original gin, photographs of many old
documents connected with the issuing
of letters patent and the suits that arose
| over the patents. IT is anelaborate study
| of frst-hand material.
! Miss Adelaide L. Fries issued a Thirty
| three page historical sketch of Salem
| Female Academy.
! Mr.. Marshall Delaney Haywood con-
] trbuted an address on Col. Edward
/ Buncombe" This was delivered before