SIDNEY LANIER.

(From Ashes and Incense.*)

O Spirit to a kingly holding born!
As beautiful as any southern morn

That wakes to woo the willing hills,
Thy life was hedged about by ills

As pitiless as any northern night;

Yet thou didst make it as thy "Sunrise" bright.

The seas were not too deep for thee; thine eye
Was comrade with the farthest star on high.
The marsh burst into bloom for thee,-
And still abloom shall ever be !

Its sluggish tide shall henceforth bear alway
A charm it did not hold until thy day.

And Life walks out upon the slipping sands
With more of flowers in her trembling hands
Since thou didst suffer and didst sing!
And so to thy dear grave I bring

One little rose, in poor exchange for all
The flowers that from thy rich hand did fall.

MADISON CAWEIN.

1865-

MADISON CAWEIN, born at Louisville, Kentucky, of Huguenot descent, is one of our younger poets who seems overflowing with life and fancy. His writings show a wonderful insight into nature and power of expressing her beauties and meanings. The amount of his poetical work is astonishing, and another volume will soon appear, enti tled "Intimations of the Beautiful.”

*By permission of the author, and publishers, J. B. Lippincott Co., Phila.

Above long woodland ways that led
To dells the stealthy twilights tread
The west was hot geranium-red;
And still, and still,

Along old lanes, the locusts sow

With clustered curls the May-times know,
Out of the crimson afterglow,

We heard the homeward cattle low,

And then the far-off, far-off woe

Of "whippoorwill!" of "whippoorwill!"

II.

Beneath the idle beechen boughs

We heard the cow-bells of the cows

Come slowly jangling towards the house;
And still, and still,

Beyond the light that would not die
Out of the scarlet-haunted sky,

Beyond the evening-star's white eye

Of glittering chalcedony,

Drained out of dusk the plaintive cry

Of "whippoorwill!" of "whippoorwill!"

III.

What is there in the moon, that swims

A naked bosom o'er the limbs,

That all the wood with magic dims?

While still, while still,

Among the trees whose shadows grope

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'Mid ferns and flow'rs the dew-drops ope,-
Lost in faint deeps of heliotrope
Above the clover-scented slope,-

Retreats, despairing past all hope,

The whippoorwill, the whippoorwill.

DIXIE.

I.

I wish I wuz in de land ob cotton,

Ole times dar am not forgotten;

Look away! look away! look away!
Dixie land.

In Dixie land whar I wuz born in,

Early on one frosty mornin';

Look away! look away! look away!

Dixie land.

CHORUS.

Den I wish I were in Dixie, hooray! hooray
In Dixie land

I'll took my stand

To lib and die in Dixie,

Away, away, away down south in Dixie,
Away, away, away down south in Dixie.

II.

Dar's buckwheat cakes and Ingen batter,
Makes you fat or a little fatter;
Den hoe it down and scratch your grabble,
To Dixie land I'm bound to trabble.

The following is a list of other authors and works that would have been included in the body of the book if space had allowed. It is with great regret that only this mention of them can be made. See "List of Southern Writers" for fuller notice.

Allan, William: Army of Northern Virginia.

Asbury, Francis: Journals.

Blair, James: State of His Majesty's Colony in Virginia. Bledsoe, Albert Taylor: A Theodicy, Is Davis a Traitor? Brock, R. A.: Southern Historical Society Papers. Burnett, Mrs. Frances Hodgson: That Lass o' Lowrie's. Cable, George Washington: Bonaventure (Acadian

sketches in Louisiana).

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Caruthers, William A.: Knights of the Golden Horseshoe (tale of Bacon's Rebellion).

Dabney, Virginius: Don Miff.

Davis, Mrs. Varina Jefferson: Jefferson Davis.

Dinwiddie Papers.

Elliott, Sarah Barnwell: John Paget.

Goulding, Francis Robert: Young Marooners.

Hearn, Lafcadio: Youma.

Hooper, Johnson Jones: Captain Suggs' Adventures. Ingraham, Joseph Holt: Prince of the House of David. Jones, John Beauchamp: Rebel War Clerk's Diary, Wild Western Scenes.

Kouns, Nathan Chapman: Arius the Libyan.

Le Conte, Joseph: Geology, Science and the Bible. Loughborough, Mrs. Mary Webster: My Cave Life in Vicksburg (in prison during the war).

McCabe, James Dabney, Jr.: Gray-Jackets.

McGuire, Mrs. Judith Walker: Diary of a Southern Refugee; (said to be a most faithful and pathetic picture of the terrible times in 1861-5. It was a private journal kept during the war, and Mrs. McGuire was afterwards induced to publish it).

Mason, Emily Virginia: Popular Life of R. E. Lee.

Maury, Dabney Herndon: Recollections of a Virginian. Meade, William: Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia.

cer.

Parker, William Harwar : Recollections of a Naval Offi

Piatt, Mrs. Sarah Morgan Bryan: Poems.

Randolph, Innis: Good Old Rebel, Back-Log.

Randolph, Sarah Nicholas: Domestic Life of Jefferson. Semmes, Raphael: Service Afloat, Cruise of the Alabama.

Semple, Robert Baylor: History of Virginia Baptists. Sims, James Marion: Story of My Life.

Smedes, Mrs. Susan Dabney: A Southern Planter; (a biography of Mrs. Smedes' father. Of this work, Hon. W. E. Gladstone says in a letter to the author: "I am very desirous that the Old World should have the benefit of this work. I ask your permission to publish it in England. Allow me to thank you, dear Madam, for

the good the book must do.").

Smith, Francis Hopkinson: Colonel Carter of Cartersville.

Spotswood, Alexander: Letters, 1710-22.

Stith, William: History of Virginia (before 1755).
Strother, David Hunter: Virginia Illustrated.
Taylor, Richard: Destruction and Reconstruction.
Wiley, Edwin Fuller: Angel in the Cloud.