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Title: Southern Literature From 1579-1895
A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms
for the use of schools and the general reader

Author: Louise Manly

Release Date: November 16, 2008 [EBook #27279]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Note

There is a small amount of Greek in this text, which has been
transliterated. It is surrounded by plus signs +like this+.

Bold text is indicated with tildes ~like this~.

Characters with a macron (straight line) over them are indicated as
[=x], where x is the letter in question. Those with a caron (v shape)
over them are indicated as [vx]. Superscripted text is indicated with
a caret (^) preceding the superscripted letters.

The original text indicated omitted text with varied numbers of spaced
periods; this convention has been retained.

SOUTHERN LITERATURE

_From 1579-1895._

A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW, WITH COPIOUS EXTRACTS
AND CRITICISMS

FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND THE GENERAL READER

_Containing an Appendix with a Full List of Southern
Authors_

BY
LOUISE MANLY

ILLUSTRATED

RICHMOND, VA.
B. F. JOHNSON PUBLISHING COMPANY
1900

COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY LOUISE MANLY.

PREFACE.

The primary object of this book is to furnish our children with
material for becoming acquainted with the development of American life
and history as found in Southern writers and their works. It may serve
as a reader supplementary to American history and literature, or it
may be made the ground-work for serious study of Southern life and
letters; and between these extremes there are varying degrees of
usefulness.