who in the opening chapters is as charming as even Polly herself in _In Ole Virginia_, is to be the central figure, but Blair is abandoned for no real reason and Miss Welsh, a Northern girl, finishes the tale. Jacquelin, too, who dominates the earlier pages, peters out, and it is not clear why Middleton, the Northern soldier, is brought in near the close of the book, perhaps to marry Blair, who by every right of romance belongs to Jacquelin. It is enough to say that the story is weak just as _Gabriel Conroy_ is weak, just as _The Grandissimes_ and _Pembroke_ are weak. The materials are better than the construction. The fame of Page then must stand or fall, as Harte's must, or Cable's or Miss Wilkins's, on the strength of his first book. His essays on the Old South and other volumes are charming and valuable studies, his novels are documents in the history of a stirring era, but his _In Ole Virginia_ is a work of art, one of the real classics of American literature. Several others have used Virginia as a background for romance, notably Mary Virginia Terhune, (1831----), who wrote under the pseudonym "Marion Harland" something like twenty novels, the most of them in the manner in vogue before 1870, and F. Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915), whose _Colonel Carter of Cartersville_ (1891) is one of the most sympathetic studies of Southern life ever written. Its sly humor, its negro dialect, its power of characterization, its tender sentiment, its lovable, whimsical central figure, and its glimpses of an old South that has forever disappeared, make it one of the few books of the period concerning which one may even now prophesy with confidence. BIBLIOGRAPHY GEORGE W. CABLE. _Old Creole Days_, 1879; _The Grandissimes_, 1880; _Madame Delphine_, 1881; _The Creoles of Louisiana_, 1884; _Dr. Sevier_, 1885; _The Silent South_, 1885; _Bonaventure_, 1888; _Strange True Stories of Louisiana_, 1889; _The Negro Question_, 1890; _The Busy Man's Bible_, 1891; _John March, Southerner_, 1894; _Strong Hearts_, 1899; _The Cavalier_, 1901; _Byelow Hill_, 1902; _Kincaid's Battery_, 1908; _Gideon's Band_, 1914; _The Amateur Garden_, 1914. HELEN HUNT JACKSON. _Verses_, 1870, 1874; _Bits of Travel_, 1872; _Saxe Holm Stories_, 1873; _Bits of Talk About Home Matters_, 1873; _Bits of Talk for Young People_, 1876; _Mercy Philbrick's Choice_ (No Name Series), 1876; _Hetty's Strange History_ (No Name Series), 1877; _Bits of Travel at Home_, 1878; _Nelly's Silver Mine_, 1878; _Saxe Holm Stories_ (Second Series), 1878; _The Story of Boon_ (a Poem), 1879; _A Century of Dishonor_, 1881; _Mammy Tittleback and Her Family_, 1881; _The Training of Children_, 1882; _The Hunter Cats of Connorloa_, 1884; _Ramona_ [First Published in the _Christian Union_], 1884; _Zeph_, 1886; _Glimpses of Three Coasts_, 1886; _Sonnets and Lyrics_, 1886; _Between Whiles_, 1887.