The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-08-05
LETTER FROM LYLE.
soldiers. Homo. Julr 30.

Soldiers Home. July 30.
Editor Of Columbia Herald -
Ten or fifteen years ago. a number Of
bright Southern girls went 10 New
York. One OF the most gifted and
beautiful of them. Miss Elizabeth
Bisland. was a Mississippi girl and
Wrote articles for the Cosmopolitan
Magazine She was good writer.
and | became much interested in her
career. because she was from the
South. She was fond of Shakespeare.
Have you not noticed that the Southern
people all like Shakespeare. She went
] to England. and some of her best
articles are about England. and its
kings and famous people. Then she
went to Egypt, and she wrote about
the Emperor HadrIan, and the statute
erected by him in honor of the beauti-
ful young man who haired his head to
receive the stroke intended to- the
EmpeIor-the man who saved his life.
Since then, have seen nothing from
her pen, until recently | saw in the
Norh American Review an article
from her pen, on dreams and their
Mysteries. " This indicates that she
is growing in intellect and influence.
l am glad to see Southern writer's
coming to the front in magazines and
hooks. Elizabeth Bisland is destined
to be strong force in literature.
l see that ex-Gov. Bob Taylor is to
start magazine. IT he Will pay
small price for contributions, he ought
TO be able to have successful maya
zine, and make IT permanent thing,
which so many have failed to do. l
wish him great success. Southern
magazines have but short lives. One
that pays small prlce for good
articles, written by capable Southern
men and women, would be long-lived
and happy. First of all, it must have
a Southern man. learned and capable,
who has the power to say mo, " to all
whose writings are inferior. no matter
Who thew are written by. A maya
zine like Blackwood, edited as well as
Blackwood, print like it, plain and |
uppretentIous, but sterling gold, in its
contents All old Southern homes, |
before the war, had library of classic
English literature the Bible, Shakes |
speare, Milton. The Spectator, Scott,
Thackery, Fielding, Richardson,
Smol.ett, Goldsmith, Swift, Dickens,
Byron, Moore, Campbell, Bacon, Locke
etc. Previous to the war, the South |
having no literature to speak of, Eng
lish literature wac in all libraries, and
that is why the Southern people are fond
Of the old English writer's, and are
readers, and devoted TO
| therefore hope that
Gov. Taylor will start magazine that
will live for all time. Ii he will do that,
Tennessee will elect him to any Office he
wants.
President Roosevelt was notified at
Oyster Bay that he had been nominated
or President. His party is keeping
1im towed down, and he will not make
many speeches during the canvass. But
1e has runaway blood in him, and
when the occasion arrives it will
;ome out He and Judge Parker are
Iiends. and the canvass Will no doubt
)e decent one. so far as they are
Judge Parker ought to
win in a walk, Eclipse or Lexington
Igainst the field. The Democrats were
wise and magnanImous in not adopting
my fire brand planks on the race ques-
ion. Democrats have no fight against
he negro. They like the negro, and
want him to vote as he pleases. But
he negro race owes more to Southern
than to all the abolition
SITS in the world. They gave him q
zones. and taught him how to work.
he negroes are associated with the [
weetest memories of the young South
rner's life. LYLE. t