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PUBLICATIONS
OF
THE
Mississippi Historical Society

Edited by
FRANKLIN L. RILEY
Secretary

Reprinted 1919
BY
DUNBAR ROWLAND, LL. D.
Secretary

VOL. II.

OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI:
PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY.
1899.

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OFFICERS FOR 1899

PRESIDENT:

GENERAL STEPHEN D. LEE, Columbus, Mississippi.

VICE-PRESIDENTS:

PROFESSOR R. W. JONES, University of Mississippi.JUDGE B. T. KIMBROUGH, Oxford, Mississippi.

ARCHIVIST:

CHANCELLOR R. B. FULTON, University of Mississippi.

SECRETARY AND TREASURER:

PROFESSOR FRANKLIN L. RILEY, University of Mississippi.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:

(IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE OFFICIALS)

PROFESSOR J. M. WHITE, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi.PROFESSOR CHARLES HILLMAN BROUGH, of Mississippi College.PROFESSOR W. L. WEBER, of Millsaps College.PRESIDENT J. R. PRESTON, of Stanton College.


All persons who are interested in the work of the Societyand desire to promote its objects are invited to become members.

There is no initiation fee. The only cost to members is, annualdues, $2.00, or life dues, $30.00. Members receive all publicationsof the Society free of charge.

Donations of relics, manuscripts, books and papers are solicitedfor the Museum and Archives of the Society.

Address all communications to the Secretary of the MississippiState Historical Society, University P. O., Mississippi.

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CONTENTS

Page
Title,1
Officers of the Society for 1899,3
Contents,5
The Historical Element in Recent Southern Literature, by Prof. C. Alphonso Smith,7
Irwin Russell—Firstfruits of the Southern Romantic Movement, by Prof. W. L. Weber,15
William Ward, a Mississippi Poet Entitled to Distinction, by Prof. Dabney Lipscomb,32
Sherwood Bonner, Her Life and Place in the Literature of the South, by Prof. Alexander L. Bondurant,43
'The Daughter of the Confederacy,' Her Life, Character and Writings, by Prof. Chiles Clifton Ferrell,...

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