The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-09-05
Whole Number 1908
Bellies, Beaux and Brains of the OOs."

" Bellies, BeauX and Brains Of the 6OS."
Town Topics, with its issue of August
30, will inaugurate a unique and most
notable feature In the historical litera-
ture of America-a retrospective social
and reminiscent history interviewer
with relevantly interesting general his !.
torical facts. As Town Topics is the
acknowledged social chronicle of the
present day, it appropriately gives TO
its readers an intimate and faithful
mirror of the society of our forefathers,
the customs then prevailing and inter-
esting genealogical connection with
present society,
The work takes the title, "Belles,
Reaux and Brains of the 'G0s," and
mainly concerns itself with glimpses Of
the men and women who made Rich
mond veritable national capital dur
ing the Confederacy. As social promi-
nence then meant political leadership,
some new and pleasant sidelights are
thrown on State and National politics.
The ramifcations of the families there
represented have spread all over the
world. The work is interspersed with
enlivening incidents and events of the
most engrossing period of the Civil
War, many coming under the authors
personal observation.
"Belles, Beaux and Brains of the
eos" is from the pen OF T. O. De Leon,
an editor, writer and poet of wide note,
author of "Four Years in Federal Capt.
taIs," "Creole and Puritan" etc.,
whose nativity and residence in the
South, intimate association with PreSi-
dent Davis and his Secretary, Mr.. Bur
ton Harrison, during those exciting
days, and close Identification with the
subject make him especially fitted to
undertake history of this kind. To
give an idea of its scope, few chapter
headings are quoted: "White House
Folk, ga Boquet of Buds" I'm Rich
monds 400" wits and Wags," "Our
Foreign Relations" "Some History
Makers, ""The Pious and the Sporty"
Accuracy has been the important aim,
and, SO far as possible, all statements
have been carefully verified and gene
alogies revised by the most competent
authorities.
Several hundred contemporaneous
photographs, mostly impossible Of
duplication, are available. These will
be used literally to lend attractiveness
to the work. and to present veritable
gallery OF society giants and giantesses
of those days, whose descendants,
scattered by the results of the Civil
War ushering in new cycle of bust
ness industries and enterprises, are
now especially prominent in all the
great centers here and in Europe.
'Belles, Beaux and Brains of the
COS" will run about 20 weeks and will
be published serially, as a weekly four
page supplementary part of Town
Topics. 1t will be printed on super
paper in the best printers art, in keep
ing with the Importance of reference
work that will be preserved.
No one with even remote Southern
family affiliations should miss single
chapter of the remarkable production
of Mr.. De Leon. Each will be of in
tense interest to all, and especially to
those whose ancestors or collateral re-
lations were of or associated with the
old Southland. To meet this demand
the publisher makes a notable special
offer. Send now one dollar bill, New
York draft or money order for 81, and
you will receive Town Topics weekly
until January 1, 1908, and as much
longer as Mr.. De Icons work shall
run. Address TOWN TOPICS,
452 Fifth Ave New York.
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