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WALTER MALONE

OCTOBER IN TENNESSEE (PAGE 461)

Aladdin: a character in the " Arabian Nights " who becomes pos sessed of a magic lamp and ring, by rubbing which genii appear to do his bidding. Other Poets. A list of some of the more important poets of the later period in Southern literature not represented in this book is given below. Maryland: Virginia Woodward Cloud (186 - ), Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856- ); Virginia: James Barron Hope (1827-1887), Armistead Churchill Gordon (1855- ), James Lindsay Gordon (1860-1904); North Carolina: Henry Jerome Stockard (1858-1914), Benjamin Sledd (1864- ); South Carolina: George Herbert Sass (1845-1908), Yates Snowden (1858- ), Carlyle McKinley (1847-1904); Georgia: Robert Loveman (1864- ); Florida: Will Wallace Harney (1831- ); West Virginia: Danske Dandridge (1858- ), Waitman Barbe (1864- ); Kentucky: John Patterson (1861- ), Lucien V. Rule (1871- ), Cale Young Rice (1872- ); Tennessee: Will T. Hale (1857- ), John Trotwood Moore (1858- ), Will Allen Dromgoole (18 - ), Vir ginia Frazer Boyle (1863- ); Mississippi: Lafayette Rupert Hamlin (1861- 1902); Stark Young (1881- ); Alabama: Clifford Lanier (1844-1908), Howard Weeden (1847-1905), Martha Young ( - ); Louisiana: Mary Ashley Townsend (1832-1901), Eliza Jane Poitevant Nicholson (" Pearl Rivers ") (1849-1896); Texas: William Lawrence Chittenden (1862- ), Clarence Ousley (1863- ).

SURVIVALS OF OLD BRITISH BALLADS

An account of Southern literature would be incomplete without some reference to the ballads and songs of popular composition, sometimes called folk-songs, in which the South is very rich. Though these songs have endured from the earliest periods of Southern civilization, yet they have only recently begun to be collected into print. Such poetry has important historical value because it renders a picture of the life, the tastes, and the feelings of those elements of the population of the South which are largely untouched by books and education. With the wider diffusion of education in recent years among the masses of the people, this folk-poetry has begun to pass rapidly away, and it there fore behooves the Southern people to find and preserve this valuable material before it is too late to do so. The folklore and ballad societies existing in almost every state as centers for carrying on this work of collection should have the interest and active support of everyone.