Jamestown, Va. The first permanent English settlement in Fort Moultrie, S. C. Fort Sumter in the Distance 88 Star-Spangled Banner and Seal of the United States 152 Scene in Louisiana 154 John Caldwell Calhoun and His Home. 163 State House, Columbia, S. C. Tulane University, New Orleans. Florida State Agricultural College. "Woodlands," the Home of W. Gilmore Simms. General R. E. Lee. Washington and Lee University. Beauvoir, the Home of Jefferson Davis. 174 ISS 200 Robert Toombs. University of Alabama. University of Kentucky Osceola .. Natural Bridge, Virginia University of Texas (Main Building), Austin. 347 State Capitol of North Carolina. . Tomb of Mary, the Mother of Washington, Fredericksburg, Va. 359 380 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. True Relation (1608). Map of Virginia (1612). Description of New England (1616). Accidence for Young Seamen (1626). WORKS. General Historie of Virginia, New Eng land, and the Summer Isles (1624). True Travels (1630). Advertisements for Inexperienced Planters of New England (1631). 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 have professed to find many inaccuracies of historical statement; ( 33 ) |