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SOUTHERN LIFE IN SOUTHERN LITERATURE


TARDY, MARY. Living Female Writers of the South (contains

selections from those living in 1872).

TRENT, W. P. Southern Writers.


WATTERSON, H. W. Oddities in Southern Life and Character

(valuable for its selections from the humorists).

WAUCHOPE, G. A. The Writers of South Carolina.


WEBER, W. L. Selections from Southern Poets.


WHARTON, H. M. War Songs and Poems of the Southern Con

federacy. , War Lyrics and Songs of the South. (This book, edited by a group of Southern women and published in England in 1 866, is one of the best as well as one of the earliest collections of its kind.)

BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM


BASKERVILL, W. M. Southern Writers, 2 vols. (Valuable for bio

graphical and critical studies of writers since 1870. Volume I is altogether by the late Professor Baskervill; Volume II contains contributions by his friends and former pupils who desired to complete his projected work.)

HENNEMAN, J. B. (Editor). The South in the Building of the

Nation, Vol. VIII. (Contains valuable articles on the literary and intellectual life of the South.)

HOLLIDAY, C. A. History of Southern Literature.


LINK, S. A. Pioneers of Southern Literature, 2 vols.


MIMS, E., Life of Lanier.


PICKETT, MRS. J. C. Literary Hearthstones of Dixie.


RAYMOND, IDA. Southland Writers, 2 vols.


RUTHERFORD, MILDRED L. The South in History and Literature.


SHEPHERD, H. E. Authors of Maryland.


TRENT, W. P. Life of William Gilmore Simms.

Several of the books listed on the preceding page under the heading

"Selections from Southern Writers " are useful for biographies and criticisms. In this connection Trent s " Southern Writers " and Alder man and Kent s " Library of Southern Literature " are to be especially mentioned. Much important biographical and critical matter will be found in magazines, particularly the Sewanee Review and the South Atlantic Quarterly.