For a time Miss Woolson held a commanding place among the novelists of the period. After her untimely death in 1894 Stedman wrote that she "was one of the leading women in the American literature of the century," and again, "No woman of rarer personal qualities, or with more decided gifts as a novelist, figured in her own generation of American writers." But time has not sustained this contemporary verdict. Her ambitious novel _Anne_, over which she toiled for three years, brilliant as it may be in parts, has not held its place. And her short stories, rare though they may have been in the day of their newness, are not to be compared with the perfect art of such later writers as Miss King and Mrs. Chopin. She must take her place as one of the pioneers of the period who discovered a field and prepared an audience for writers who were to follow. IX The appearance of Page's _In Ole Virginia_, 1887, marks the culmination of the period of Southern themes. The sensation caused by _The Quick or the Dead?_ by Amélie Rives (later Princess Troubetzkoy) in 1888 need only be referred to. It had little significance either local or otherwise. The younger writers, born for the most part at a later date, like John Fox, Jr., Mary Johnston, and Ellen Glasgow, belong to another period. BIBLIOGRAPHY RICHARD MALCOLM JOHNSTON. (1822-1898.) _The English Classics_, 1860; _Georgia Sketches, by an Old Man_, 1864; _Dukesborough Tales_, 1871, 1874, 1883, 1892; _English Literature_ (with William Hand Browne), 1872; _Life of Alexander H. Stephens_ (with William Hand Browne), 1878; _Old Mark Langston, a Tale of Duke's Creek_, 1883; _Mr. Absalom Billingslea and Other Georgia Folk_, 1888; _Ogeechee Cross Firings_, 1889; _The Primes and Their Neighbors_, 1891; _Studies Literary and Scientific_, 1891; _Mr. Billy Downs and His Likes_, 1892; _Mr. Fortner's Marital Claims and Other Stories_, 1892; _Two Gray Tourists_, 1893; _Widow Guthrie_, 1893; _Little Ike Templin and Other Stories_, 1894; _Old Times in Middle Georgia_, 1897; _Pearce Amerson's Will_, 1898.