s a distinct note of
histrionism about many of the rich Americans who "go in for" elaborate
ruralness, and there is a touch of it, also, about ultra-"horsey"
people]

[Illustration: The southern negro is the world's peasant supreme]

[Illustration: The Country Club of Virginia, out to the west of
Richmond, is one of the most charming clubs of its kind in the United
States]

[Illustration: Judge Crutchfield--a white-haired, hook-nosed man of more
than seventy, peering over his eyeglasses with a look of shrewd,
merciless divination]

[Illustration: Negro women squatting upon boxes in old shadowy lofts
stem the tobacco leaves]

[Illustration: THE JUDGE: What did he do, Mandy?

THE WIFE: Jedge, he come bustin' in, an' he come so fas' he untook de
do' off'n de hinges!]

[Illustration: Some genuine old-time New York ferryboats help to
complete the illusion that Norfolk is New York]

[Illustration: "The Southern Statesman who serves his section best,
serves the country best."]

[Illustration: St. Philip's is the more beautiful for the open space
before it, and the graceful outward bend of Church Street in deference
to the projecting portico]

[Illustration: Or, opposite St. Philip's, a perfect example of the rude
architecture of an old French village; stucco walls, tinted and chipped,
red tile roofs and all]

[Illustration: In the doorway and gates of the Smyth house, in Legare
Street, I was struck with a Venetian suggestion]

[Illustration: Nor is the Charleston background a mere arras of
recollection. It exists everywhere in the wood and brick and stone of
ancient and beautiful buildings, in iron grilles and balconies
unrivalled in any other American city....]

[Illustration: Charleston has a stronger, deeper-rooted city entity than
all the cities of the middle west rolled into one]

[Illustration: The interior is the oldest looking thing in the United
States--Goose Creek Church]

[Illustration: A reminder of the Chicago River--Atlanta]

[Illustration: With the whole Metropolitan Orchestra playing dance music
all night long]

[Illustration: The office buildings are city office buildings, and are
sufficiently numerous to look very much at home]

[Illustration: The negro roof-garden, Odd Fellows' Building, Atlanta]

[Illustration: I was never so conscious, as at the time of our visit to
the Burge plantation, of the superlative soft sweetness of the spring]

[Illustration: The planters cease their wor