ke 226

GEORGE DENISON PRENTICE, 1802-1870 228
The Closing Year 228
Paragraphs 231

EDWARD COATE PINKNEY, 1802-1828 231
A Health 232
Song: We Break the Glass 233

CHARLES ETIENNE ARTHUR GAYARRE, 1805-1895 235
Louisiana in 1750-1770 236
The Tree of the Dead 240

MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY, 1806-1873 243
The Gulf Stream 246
Deep-Sea Soundings 247
Heroic Death of Lieutenant Herndon 249

WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS, 1806-1870 252
Sonnet--The Poet's Vision 255
The Doom of Occonestoga 255
Marion, the "Swamp-Fox" 262

ROBERT EDWARD LEE, 1807-1870 265
Duty--To His Son 266
Human Virtue--At the Surrender 266
His Last Order, 1865 266
Letter Accepting the Presidency of Washington College 268

JEFFERSON DAVIS, 1808-1889 269
Trip To Kentucky at Seven Years of Age, and Visit to
General Jackson 271
Life of the President of the United States 272
Farewell to the Senate, 1861 274

EDGAR ALLAN POE, 1809-1849 276
To Helen 279
Israfel 279
Happiness 281
The Raven 281

ROBERT TOOMBS, 1810-1885 284
Farewell to the Senate, 1861 286