The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-03-08

the tine middle age cling1ng TO the
assured past and doubtful Of the I'M
certain culture and 1.-The heroic tradi-
ton with its Suggesting of affairs
and contest and heady enterprise
making it's last stand in the new west
| against efficiency and correctness and
form" and the south Of today as EN-
tered for good or Ill upon its proba-
! usn al a member of the modern
world" DR.. Alderman's Grafton il tbs
subsequent u~nfoldings indicates a will
iagness TO acquire knowledge, but @
CHI Dr.. Hannis Taylor Of the
George Washington University, and az
S9e orator Of the day at the Johns
Hopkins last week is reported as stat
Eng:
Excepting Maury's Physical Geo
sreDhs of the Sea" the south prior
to Ehe Civil war had contributed to the
literature Of the world practically
Eothins- Down To that time her
genius was purely political, but in that
domain it was of the highest order"
II DR.. Taylor has been correctly re-
ported he is represented as being only
barely acquainted with the produc-
ions Of the pen Of Matthew +. Maury,
uniess he does not care to class with
the literature OF the world" the text
book OF the United States Navy
kHewH as "Maury's Navigation"
4Sn~1AG IIrrrN +L~ Il Do L.
Harry B4uif,' o potential for the es-
tabiish of the United States
Naval Academy, his published argu-
mGats for an isthmian canal. and his
frequent papers upon the expansion
Of American commerce, full of argu-
iaents; which are being repeated today
under an impression, perhaps, that the
repetitiOas are original thoughts, and
ais contributions to some sort Of lit
creature that resulted in the operation
Of the Atlantic cable and the astab-
iishment OF the United States weather
service, DR.. Taylor may possibly have
some nadTOv definition of '~Iiterature
OF the world" peculiarly his own. He
has apparently ruled from it the writ
i1gs OF such provincial Spirits and
'~paxoohisIs' as Thomas jefferson,
James Madison, John G.. Calhoun,
RoseTt Y. Hayne and men Of that
staaap as being purely POLITICAL" But
IL he classes Physical Geography of
the Sea" as q contribution to the lit
eeatul'e OF the world he might, on a
Paach, let in the writings of John
Jasaes Audubon, who, as a standard
"a anthology. is somehow of other
identified with the south; the Lc
SOAtes Of Georgia, in their special
realms OF science; Edmund Ruffn Of
Virginia, a VOluminOus and lucid
writer as a pioneer in scientific agri-
suiture; john Taylor Of Caroline, with
nlS rural philosophy; William Writ of
Maryland, Thomas r. Dew of Virginia
aala Charles E.. A. Gayarre of Louisf-
ana. Still liberal, he might recaA
James D. B. DeBow of South Caro-
lima n Louisiana, who, as superin-
sendent Of the United States census
OF 1850, produced a compendium that
had never before been approached in
saoa government publications, and as
editor OF DeBow's Review for nearly
% years created a StOrehOuse of in
formation about the south which, with
it's contemporary, the Southern Liter |
aGy Messenger, published at Richmond
faG 30 years, should be carefully stud
led by anyone desiring in the twea-
ue&h oeatury to describe what the
south before the Civil war was, or to |
judgment upon it.
Or. Taylor may class as contribu-
toas to the literature Of oblivion in |
stead OF to the literature of the world
the writings of a host of southerners,
Including John P. Kennedy, William |
GlmoT. Simms Joseph G. Baldwin,
A. B. Longstreet, Philip Pendleton
Henry Timrod, John R. Thomp- |
SON, Paul H. Hayne, J. M. Legare, A.
B. Meek, Francis l.. Hawks, S. Teackle
Wallis, George Fred Holmes, John
Hsten Cooke, Marion Harland and
J. Evans, the last named still
as vigorous as when her "Beulah'
went through Is editions in three
months. But such consignment will
only be made by individuals VINO
measure in most un~philosophic man
conditions of so years ago with
conditions of today and assume, in a |
world still young, to decide what is to |
be regarded as world literature
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