'THE DAUGHTER OF THE CONFEDERACY,' HER LIFE, CHARACTER AND WRITINGS, by _Prof. Chiles Clifton Ferrell_, 67 SIR WILLIAM DUNBAR, PIONEER SCIENTIST OF MISSISSIPPI, by _Prof. Franklin L. Riley_, 85 HISTORY OF TAXATION IN MISSISSIPPI, by _Prof. Charles Hillman Brough_, 113 TERRITORIAL GROWTH OF MISSISSIPPI, by _Prof. J. M. White_, 125 THE EARLY SLAVE LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI, by _Alfred H. Stone, Esq._, 135 FEDERAL COURTS, JUDGES, ATTORNEYS AND MARSHALS IN MISSISSIPPI, by _Thomas McAdory Owen, Esq._, 147 RUNNING MISSISSIPPI'S SOUTH LINE, by _Peter J. Hamilton, Esq._, 157 ELIZABETH FEMALE ACADEMY--THE MOTHER OF FEMALE COLLEGES, by _Bishop Chas. B. Galloway_, 169 EARLY HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COLLEGE, by _Mr. J. K. Morrison_, 179 THE RISE AND FALL OF NEGRO RULE IN MISSISSIPPI, by _Dunbar Rowland, Esq._, 189 GLIMPSES OF THE PAST, by _Mrs. Helen D. Bell_, 201 THE HISTORICAL OPPORTUNITY OF MISSISSIPPI, by _Prof. R. W. Jones_, 219 NANIH WAIYA, THE SACRED MOUND OF THE CHOCTAWS, by _Mr. H. S. Halbert_, 223 INDEX, 235 THE HISTORICAL ELEMENT IN RECENT SOUTHERN LITERATURE. BY C. ALPHONSO SMITH, A. M., PH. D. The year 1870 marks an epoch in the history of the South. It witnessed not only the death of Robert E. Lee but the passing also of John Pendleton Kennedy, George Denison Prentice, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, and William Gilmore Simms. In literature it was not only the end of the old but the beginning of the new, for in 1870 the new movement in Southern literature may be said to have been inaugurated in the work of Irwin Russell. I have attempted elsewhere to trace briefly the chronological outlines of this literature from 1870 to the present time. In this paper, therefore, I shall discuss not the history of this literature but rather the history in this literature.