"A poetical view of the Southern cause in the Civil War."--The Nation, January, 1892. "An attempt on the part of Professor Gildersleeve to make the Creed of the Old South seem a little less absurd than it has for twenty years past."--Springfield Republican. "Professor B. L. Gildersleeve states the Creed of the Old South in a way to make every Northern man respect those who took up arms like General Lee under the conviction that the State had the first claim upon their allegiance. The writer would have strengthened this sympathy, however, did he show that he had been docile to the stern teacher, experience, and had come to reject the parochial creed of state rights."--Literary World, January 2, 1892. "I hope it is not improper to add that wherever, in all Christendom, there is hearty appreciation of profound learning allied to conscience and to a refined life, the recent paper of the Johns Hopkins professor of philology will be taken as conclusive proof that good and true and able men could uphold the cause of the Confederacy even in arms, and never doubt in their hearts that they were right."--JACOB DOLSON COX, "Why the Men of '61 Fought for the Union," Atlantic Monthly, March, 1892. CORRECTIONS. [Transcriber's note: The following corrections have been made to the text.] p. 108, l. 18, for 'Weir' read 'Weyer'. 111, l. 27, LEE'S middle name was KENDALL, not KNOX. 115, l. 23, read 'As Gabriel _on_ the devil'. 121, l. 15, read 'was and is'. 123, l. 6, for [Greek: zyg/on] read [Greek: zyg\on]. 124, l. 6, read AUGUSTIN_E_, 'as always in the Washington family' W. GORDON McCABE. 126, l. 6, for 427 read 417.