la 312

Natural Bridge, Virginia 325

University of Mississippi 337

University of Texas (Main Building), Austin 347

State Capitol of North Carolina 359

Tomb of Mary, the Mother of Washington, Fredericksburg, Va. 380

General T. J. Jackson (Stonewall) Oppo. 388

Arkansas Industrial University 402

Mt. Mitchell, N. C. Above the Clouds 408

Grady Monument, Atlanta, Ga. 414

Agricultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi 420

University of Tennessee, Knoxville 424

Model School, Peabody Normal College 433

Mississippi Industrial Institute and College for Girls Oppo. 446

Southern Literature.

FIRST PERIOD ... 1579-1750.

JOHN SMITH.

~1579=1631.~

CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH, the first writer of Virginia, was born at
Willoughby, England, and led a life of rare and extensive adventure.
"Lamenting and repenting," he says, "to have seen so many Christians
slaughter one another," in France and the Lowlands, he enlisted in the
wars against the Turks. He was captured by them and held prisoner for
a year, but escaped and travelled all over Europe. He finally joined
the expedition to colonize Virginia, and came over with the first
settlers of Jamestown in 1607. His life here is well known; he
remained with the colony two years. He afterwards returned to America
as Admiral of New England, but did not stay long. He spent the
remainder of his life in writing accounts of himself and his travels,
and of the colonies in America.

WORKS.

True Relation (1608).
Map of Virginia (1612).
Description of New England (1616).
New England's Trials (1620).
Accidence for Young Seamen (1626).
Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer
Isles (1624).
True Travels (1630).
Advertisements for Inexperienced Planters of New England (1631).

[Illustration: ~Captain John Smith.~]

Captain Smith's style is honest and hearty in tone, picturesque, often
amusing, never tiresome. It is involved and ungrammatical at times,
but not obscure. The critics h