Modern Eloquence: Vol II | Page 2

SIR HENRY Looking Forward 676 The Drama 678 The Function of the Newspaper 681
JEBB, RICHARD CLAVERHOUSE Literature and Art 686
JEFFERSON, JOSEPH My Farm in Jersey 688 In Memory of Edwin Booth 691
KITCHENER, LORD The Relief of Khartum 694
LANG, ANDREW Problem Novels 698
LAURIER, WILFRID Canada 702
LAWRENCE, FRANK R. The Future of New York 705
LECKY, WILLIAM E. H. The Artistic Side of Literature 708
LEE, FITZHUGH The Flag of the Union Forever 710
LEIGHTON, SIR FREDERIC Variety in British Art 713
LELAND, CHARLES GODFREY Hans Breitmann's Return 717
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM Central Ideas of the Republic 720
LODGE, HENRY CABOT The Blue and the Gray 723
LONG, JOHN DAVIS The Navy 727
LOW, SETH The Chamber of Commerce 731
LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL Harvard Alumni 737 National Growth of a Century 741 The Stage 745 Commerce 748 After-Dinner Speaking 750 "The Return of the Native" 753 Literature 758 International Copyright 761
LOWELL, JOHN Humors of the Bench 766
LYTTON, LORD (SIR EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON) Macready and the English Stage 769 Farewell to Charles Dickens 774
MABIE, HAMILTON WRIGHT Spirit of New England Literature 778
MACKAY, DONALD SAGE The Dutch Domine 782
MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER C. Music 787
MACREADY, WILLIAM CHARLES Farewell to the Stage 791
McCARTHY, JUSTIN Ireland's Struggle 795
McCLURE, ALEXANDER KELLY An Editorial Retrospect 799
McKELWAY, ST. CLAIR Smashed Crockery 807 Tribute to Mark Twain 811
McKINLEY, WILLIAM Our Country 815 The Future of the Philippines 818
MELISH, WILLIAM B. The Ladies 825
MILES, NELSON APPLETON The Spanish-American War 831
MILLER, SAMUEL FREEMAN Federal Judges 834
MORLEY, JOHN Literature and Politics 838
MOTLEY, JOHN LOTHROP The Poets' Corner 842
NEWMAN, JOHN PHILIP Commerce 845
NORTON, CHARLES ELIOT Castles in Spain 850
OGLESBY, RICHARD The Royal Corn 853
O'REILLY, JOHN BOYLE Moore, the Bard of Erin 856

ILLUSTRATIONS
VOLUME II
"JUSTICE" Frontispiece Photo-engraving in colors after an original painting by George W. Maynard
HENRY WOODFIN GRADY 534 Photogravure after a photograph from life
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 625 Photogravure after a photograph from life
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL 672 Photogravure after a photograph from life
MENU CARD 676 Photogravure after a design by Thompson Willing
FANEUIL HALL 723 Photogravure after a photograph
"PATRIOTISM" 815 Photo-engraving in colors after an original painting by George W. Maynard

GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON
SOUTHERN LITERATURE
[Speech of George Cary Eggleston at the first annual banquet of the New York Southern Society, February 22, 1887. Algernon Sidney Sullivan, President of the Society, was in the chair. In introducing the speaker Mr. Sullivan said: "We want to hear a word about 'Southern Literature,' and we will now call upon Mr. George Cary Eggleston to respond to that sentiment."]
MR. PRESIDENT:--I have cheered myself so hoarse that I do not think I can make a speech at all. I will say a word or two if my voice holds out. It is patriotically hoarse.
If I manage to make a speech it will be the one speech of the evening which was most carefully prepared. The preparations were all made, arrangements were completed and it was perfectly understood that I should not make it. The name set down under this toast is that of Hon. John Randolph Tucker, and the wild absurdity of asking a writer who does not make speeches, to take the place of such an orator as John Randolph Tucker would seem to be like asking a seasick land-lubber to take the captain's place upon the bridge of the ocean steamer in a storm, and there is another reason by which I am peculiarly unfit to speak in response to the toast--"Southern Literature," and that is, that I am firmly convinced that there is no Southern Literature; that there never was a Southern Literature; that there never will be a Southern Literature, and that there never ought to be a Southern Literature. Some very great and noble work in literature has been produced by men of Southern lineage and birth and residence. John Marshall, if he had not been the greatest of American jurists, would have been counted, because of his "Life of Washington," the greatest of biographers. I might name an extended list of workers in this field, all of Southern birth. Sims; my dead friend, John Esten Cooke; his brother, Philip Cooke; Cable, who is married to New England; the gifted woman who calls herself Charles Egbert Craddock; and a host of others including that noble woman now going blind in Lexington, who has done some of the sweetest work in American poetry, Margaret J. Preston. [Applause.] I might go further and claim Howells, every drop of whose blood is Virginian. If it were not getting personal and becoming a family affair, I might mention the fact that the author of the "Hoosier Schoolmaster," with whom I used to play on the hills of Ohio River, was of direct Southern descent; that he was born as I was, exactly on Mason and Dixon's line, and one of us fell over on one side and the other on the other when the trouble came.
Notwithstanding all this, I hold that there can be