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did they write? 2. What style had she at first _3. Learn
something of the ginseng-diggers in the Alleghany Mountains._

GRACE KING.--_Describe the contrast in the life of many of the
Southern planters before and after the war._

WAITMAN BARBE.--1. To whom is the poem addressed? 2. Of what paper is
he editor?

MADISON CAWEIN.--1. Of what race is he? _2. Who were the Huguenots?_
_3. Learn something of their history._

DIXIE.--_1. Who wrote Dixie, and when?_

APPENDIX.

LIST OF SOUTHERN WRITERS.

This list is not complete. It is my desire to make it so, and I shall
be greatly obliged for information as to names, dates, residence, and
works of Southern writers. Correction of mistakes is urgently and
respectfully solicited, as well as fuller details in regard to the
names here given, which lack some of the above particulars.

Communications may be addressed to Miss Louise Manly, care B. F.
Johnson Publishing Company, Richmond, Virginia.

Valuable aid has been most kindly and generously rendered by Prof.
B. F. Meek, University of Alabama; Prof. Howard N. Ogden, University
of West Virginia (now of the University of Chicago); Mr. Charles
Weathers Bump, Ph. D., Johns Hopkins University; Prof. Charles W.
Kent, Linden-Kent Professor of English, University of Virginia; Dr.
James Wood Davidson, Washington, D. C.; Prof. B. F. Riley, University
of Georgia; Mr. Alfred Holt Stone, Greenville, Mississippi; Prof.
R. H. Willis, Arkansas University; Prof. F. C. Woodward, South
Carolina University; Prof. C. V. Waugh, Florida State College; Miss
Sara Hartman, Editor of _The Gulf Messenger_, San Antonio, Texas; Mr.
F. A. Sampson, Sedalia, Missouri; Mr. William F. Switzler, Editor of
_The Missouri Democrat_, Boonville, Missouri; Mr. Fay Hempstead,
Little Rock, Arkansas; Mr. Leonard Lemmon, Editor of _The School
Forum_, Sherman, Texas; Prof. E. M. Davis, University of Tennessee
(now of Hampden-Sidney, Va.), and other professors and scholars.

 * * * * *

Those marked * are to be found in the body of the book. The following
abbreviations are used:

 Bapt., Baptist.
 c. e., civil engineer.
 cl., clergyman.
 ed., editor.
 edu., educator.
 jour., journalist.
 Luth., Lutheran.
 M. E., Methodist Episcopal.
 nat., naturalist.
 P. E., Protestant Episcopal.
 phys., physician.
 Pr., Presbyterian.
 R. C., Roman Catholic.
 sci., scientist.

 Abbey, Richard
 M. E. Cl.
 Miss.
 Apostolic Succession, Creed of All Men, and other religious
 works.

 Aiken, Mrs. J. G.
 La.
 Poems.

 Ainslie, Hew, 1792-1878
 poet
 Scotland, Ky.
 Ingleside, On with the Tartan, Pilgrimage to the Land of
 Burns, and other poems.

 Aleix, Mme Eulalie L. T.
 La.
 Le Livre d'Or de la Comtesse Diane, Maxime de la Vie, Les
 Poésies de Lamartine.

 Alfriend, Frank H.
 Va.
 Life of Jefferson Davis, Life of R. E. Lee.

 Allan, William,--d. 1891
 colonel C. S. A.
 Va.
 Battlefields of Virginia, Jackson's Valley Campaign, Army of
 Northern Virginia.

 Allen, Henry Watkins, 1820-1866
 War governor of La.
 Travels of a Sugar-Planter.

 *Allen, James Lane
 novelist
 Ky.
 Flute and Violin and other stories, John Gray, A Kentucky
 Cardinal.

 Allston, Joseph Blyth
 soldier
 S. C.
 Battle Songs.

 Allston, Washington, 1779-1843
 artist and poet
 S. C., Eng., Mass.
 Monaldi (novel), Poems, Art writings.

 Alsop, George, 1638-
 colonist
 England, Md.
 Character of the Province of Maryland, Small Treatise on the
 Wild and Naked Indians or Susquehannakes of Maryland.

 Anderson, Florence
 Ky.
 Zenaida (novel), Poems.

 Andrew, James Osgood, 1794-1871
 M. E. bishop
 Ga., Ala.
 Miscellanies, Family Government.

 Andrews, Eliza Frances, 1847 ("_Elzey Hay_")
 Ga.
 Family Secret, Mere Adventurers, Prince Hal, Dress Under
 Difficulties (fashions in Dixie during the war), Plea for Red
 Hair, and other writings.

 Andry, Mme Laure
 La.
 Histoire de la Louisiane pour les Enfants.

 Archdale, John
 Quaker,
 came in 1664 as governor of Carolina.
 Description of Carolina.

 Archer, G. W.
 phys.
 Md.
 More than She Could Bear (Tales of Texas).

 Arrington, Alfred W., 1810-1867
 N. C., Mo., Ark.
 Apostrophe to Water, Sketch of the South-West, Rangers and
 Regulators of the Tanaha.

 Asbury, Francis, 1745-1816
 M. E. bishop
 Eng., Va.
 Journal (3 vols., travels in establishing Methodism).

 Ashe, Thomas, ("T. A., Gent.")
 Eng., Va.
 Carolina: or a Description of the Present State of that
 Country and the Natural Excellencies thereof (published in
 1682, reprinted, 1836).

 *Audubon, John James, 1780-1851
 naturalist
 La., Pa., Ky., N. Y.
 Ornithological Biographies, Birds of America, Quadrupeds of
 America (with Rev. John Bachman).

 Augustin, George
 La.
 Legends of New Orleans.

 Augustin, John
 La.
 Creole Songs, War Flowers.

 Augustin, Marie
 La.
 Le Macandal (novel).

 Bachman, John, 1790-1874
 Luth. cl., nat.
 N. Y., S. C.
 Quadrupeds of America (with Audubon), Unity of the Human Race,
 Defence of Luther.

 Bacon, Julia
 Tex.
 Looking for the Fairies, and other poems.

 *Bagby, George William, 1828-1883
 humorist, essayist
 Va.
 Letters of Mozis Addums and other writings.

 Baker, Daniel, 1791-1857
 Pr. cl., edu.
 Ga., Va., Tex.
 Sermons, Address to Fathers, and other works.

 Baker, William Munford (son of Daniel), 1825-1883
 cl.
 Tex., Mass.
 Inside, A Chronicle of Secession, by _G. F. Harrington_,
 Virginians in Texas, New Timothy, and other works.

 Baker, Mrs. Marion A. (_Julie K. Wetherill_), 1858-
 La.
 Poems, essays, and other writings.

 *Baldwin, Joseph G., 1811-1864
 jurist, humorist
 Ala., Cal.
 Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi, Party Leaders, and
 other writings.

 Baldwin, James Mark
 edu.
 S. C., N. J.
 Mental Development in the Child and the Race, Psychology.

 Ball, Mrs. Caroline A. [Rutledge]
 S. C.
 Jacket of Gray and other Poems (1866).

 Banister, John, ?-1692
 botanist
 Eng., Va.
 Insects of Virginia, Curiosities in Virginia.

 *Barbe, Waitman, 1864-
 ed.
 W. Va.
 Addresses, Ashes and Incense, and other poems.

 Barbee, William J., 1816-
 cl., phys., edu.
 Ky., Tenn., Mo.
 Cotton Question, Life of Paul, and other writings.

 Barber, Miss Catherine Webb [Mrs. Towles]
 ed.
 Mass., Ala., Ga.
 (Ed. "Miss Barber's Weekly"), Three Golden Links, Freemason's
 Fireside.

 Barclay, James Turner, 1807-1874
 cl.
 Va., Ala.
 City of the Great King.

 Barde, Alexandre
 La.
 Histoire des Comités de Vigilance aux Attakapas.

 Barnes, Annie Maria, 1857-
 S. C., Ga.
 Some Lowly Lives, Story of the Chattahoochee, Found in the
 Sand, &c.

 Barney, John, 1784-1856
 Md.
 Personal Recollections of Men and Things in America and Europe.

 Barr, Mrs. Amelia Edith
 Eng., Tex.
 Remember the Alamo, Jan Vedder's Wife, and many other novels.

 Barrow, Mrs. Frances Elizabeth [Mease] (_Aunt Fanny_), 1822
 S. C., N. Y.
 Aunt Fanny's Story-Book, Letter G, Six Nightcaps.

 Bartlett, Napier
 La.
 Military Recollections of Louisiana, Soldier's Story of the War.

 Bartley, James Avis
 Va.
 Lays of Virginia.

 Bascom, Henry Bidleman, 1796-1850.
 M. E. bishop
 N. Y., Ky.

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