Modern Eloquence: Vol II | Page 2

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL Welcome to the Alumni 625 Dorothy
Q. 627
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, JR. Sons of Harvard Who Fell in
Battle 630 The Joy of Life 645
HOUGHTON, LORD (RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES) Your
Speech and Ours 635 Bonds of National Sympathy 639
HOWE, JULIA WARD Tribute to Oliver Wendell Holmes 645
HOWELL, CLARK Our Reunited Country 647
HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN The "Atlantic" and Its Contributors

653
HOWLAND, HENRY ELIAS Russia 657 Our Ancestors and
Ourselves 661
HUXLEY, THOMAS HENRY Science and Art 670
INGERSOLL, ROBERT GREEN The Music of Wagner 672
IRVING, 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;