The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-02-23

~ oldle curing n revolution. Mrs.
kennedy rather uses the State at that
tune as background for the story than
makes any attempt to recreate the pc
ROD IN form Of fiction In the present
group even a brief survey must in
clude Judge Albion w. Toursee whose
most notable work probably is "A
FOOLS Errand," 1S79). This noto-
rlous book dealing with the Recon-
structiOn period is we'll Remembered
by older people. The Southerner." by |
m author h calls himself mich |
olas WORTH" might be added if plac- |
ms 1t as fiction could be justified.
".
me writer's born within the State
and identified though their lives with
the people here, command our chief
interest. Who are these? What have
they written? In the endeavor to de-
pct the period just before the Civil
war. John W. Moore's THE Heirs of
st. kilda' (18S0) frankly assumes the
controversial attitude; it answer the
South's cry for vindication." Gov
erine practically the same period. an
earlier book, "~Seagift," by Il. ". Full
Ter, almost defies classification, it COM
bines SO remarkably the wildly ro-
mantle with the photographically real
lStlc. A beautiful Cuban girl, washed
upon the shore after storm and Ship
wreck off Hatteras, is found by two
W WV
young men, these two of course to
become rivals. Romantic enough, 10
be sure! Some scenes succeed as
realistic as Fielding, devoid however,
or tleiding's genius; and finally a re-
voting close. The back is sadly lack
ing in construction, in co~nsistency-in
all the elements hat go to make a
Successful novel; yet certain incidents
In the story hold the attention and
SUCK IN the memory. Without AIDE
quate training, and without the con-
summate genius that overleaps all
training, Fuller q imagination and
!, crude force that under more favor.
? able conditions might have carried
him far.
+ The most interesting man in this
group is Calvin II. Wiley. the first
State Superintendent Of Public IN
= Struction in North Carolina, and the
= organizer Of h public school ays.
9 tenn. ~"Alamance, or The Great ant
: Final Experiment. copyright, 1S47)
%centers upon the life Of the school
: master, Hector McBride; but tn,
= larger purpose included the histor,
Of n central part of the State dur
= ing the Regulation War. and the Revo
luton. Similarly, Roanoke, o
{ Where is Utopia ?" copyright. 1860
~endeavors to portray the people am
to commemorate h events of tn
y coastal region. This novel, into whicl
IS the slavery question enters, has d pc
81 culiar history. DR.. Stephen 3. Week
l. kindly furnishes me the facts froT
his manuscript photography Of Mort
"a Carolina literature. First pubiishe
rs serially in Sartain's Union Magazine
It, Philadelphia. 1S49, the book wa
is twice pirated in London, once wit
re the title adventures of old Da
T. Tucker and his Son Walter" GS51.
and again as "Companion to Uncl
ysNsp 1000
in Philadelphia, published it in 1876
ve as Life in the South" The text, d
re- Weeks says. is practically the same
on all the editiOnS,-and also the I'D i
Illustrations expressly for this work /
Darby" These last must be seen
be appreciated. The book had az
ventures almost equal to its berOe'
Yet we can but regret that Calv+
Wiley did not write a series Of hi
III ~torical sketches rather than his III
Is, kempt fiction which pitiably fai
It's when measured by the c~riteria
~ permanent literature. The spell ca
Oh by the Author of Waverley' was t
re powerful; fiction it had to be.
Still more recently two men ha'
-; again sought to recreate III fiction t
colonial life of the State. MIR. W.
"a Hargrave, in "Wallannah, A ColOni
~ Romance" G902), narrates q series
somewhat startling episodes, culmi
atlnS III q scene Nllctl suggests |
NY Indian trail in THE YemaSsee"
William limo Simlns. Bearing /
date 1913 is The Master of the r.
Buck and the Bay Doe by DR.. "
10 liam Laurie Hill, called the pa
10 laureate of Journalism in North Cal
to lima. The character Of his noel
e1n more fully indicated by the sub-ut
"a Story of Wing and Tory Warfa
in North Carolina. 1TS1-S3." tanni
we OF Revolutionary fame, is the cent
the
re- v,,r,ine from historical fc1i
ac- two 1von,ar have uritfnn nofeIor,
fction in other fields. Mrs. Tierr
the has done successfully what, l take
she set out To do. She seems TO ht
au- seen clearly the literary pre-eminel
OF in our day of the novel, and With
III aspiring to produce great, perman
i've. fiction. she has drawn about her