. 381 . 381 Washington's Mother When a Girl.. Washington's Mother at the Peace Ball 74 Washington, Memorial Address in Congress, 1800, by Henry Lee, 124 302 . 126 397 443 178 383 405 131 WILSON, MRS. AUGUSTA EVANS. WILSON, ROBERT BURNS. WIRT, WILLIAM Wise Choice. Woman's Duty. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Captain John Smith.. Rescue of Captain Smith by Pocahontas. Jamestown, Va. The first permanent English settlement in America. Storm at Sea.. Sir Walter Raleigh Westover, the Home of William Byrd. Evelyn Byrd. Hunting in the Dismal Swamp. The Tower of London George Washington . Washington Taking the Oath of Office PAGE 34 36 39 44 50 55 57 62 69 72 75 83 88 Old St. John's Church, Richmond, Va. Fort Moultrie, S. C. Fort Sumter in the Distance. Monticello, the Home of Jefferson . . Harper's Ferry. Jasper Replacing the Flag. William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va.. University of Virginia . Henry Clay. . . . Star-Spangled Banner and Seal of the United States General Sam Houston, First President of Texas State House, Columbia, S. C.. Old Plantation Home Alamo, San Antonio, Texas Ruins of the English Settlement at Roanoke, N. C. 92 96 104 114 141 146 152 154 158 163 174 188 200 207 22 University of Georgia, Chapel, Athens Tomb of Mary, the Mother of Washington, Fredericksburg, Va. General T. J. Jackson (Stonewall). Agricultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Model School, Peabody Normal College.. 376 380 388 402 408 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. Generall 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 turesque, often amusing, never tiresome. ungrammatical at times, but not obscure. hearty in tone, pic It is involved and professed to find many inaccuracies of historical statement; ( 33 ) |