We make ours right, sell them right—in fact, they are the right books for you to use. Brandon Printing Co. Lithographers, Printers and Blank Book Makers NASHVILLE, TENN. _In writing to advertisers please mention the Taylor-Trotwood Magazine_ [Illustration: GENERAL LEE ON TRAVELER _“Robert Edward Lee,” page 346_ _Photographed from life. M. Miley, Lexington, Virginia_] THE TAYLOR-TROTWOOD MAGAZINE VOL. IV JANUARY, 1907 NO. 4 _CAPABILITY_ _A SONNET_ _BY JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE_ _God sends duties to those who show themselves capable of duty, and power to those who are worthy of power._—Wm. McKinley. _There comes a time to Nations, as to man,_ _When God shall test them with a furnace fire,_ _Shall weigh them in the scales of His desire—_ _Predestined law of long predestined plan._ _To him who measureth to the nobler span,_ _He maketh him a model and a chart,_ _Of all His ways a parcel and a part_ _Wherever Fate, His pulse of purpose, ran._ _But woe to him He weigheth and find not!_ _And woe to him that testeth not as gold!_ _His name shall be in blighting and in blot,_ _His fame the murk of mildew and of mold._ _He giveth power to him of power and beauty,_ _He addeth strength to him of strength and duty._ [Illustration] ROBERT EDWARD LEE _Born January 19, 1807. Died October 12, 1870_ By Robert L. Taylor To write of Lee in the fulfilling of his manifold duties would be to fill volumes. Lee as an intrepid young officer in the United States army; as a practical military engineer; as a man among men; as a staunch patriot, a brilliant commander and a magnanimous foe; a hero whose strength was the might of gentleness and self-command; the chief of a vanquished army, setting an example of noble submission; in the sanctity of his home, consecrating his energies to the restoration of a prostrate and desolate country; as the head of a great institution for the upbuilding of character and scholarship; as parent, as husband, friend; and as a modest, God-fearing gentleman—in all of these critical relations which constitute the test of true greatness, the rich nature of Robert Edward Lee shone with unfailing steadfastness and brilliancy. I cannot attempt, in the limits of a magazine article, to do justice to an inexhaustible subject. Why should I when the most eloquent tongues and pens of two continents have labored to present, with fitting eulogy, the character and career of our cavalier _par excellence_? It is the South’s patent of nobility that he is to-day regarded, the world over, not only as ranking with the greatest military geniuses history has known, but as having less of the selfish littleness of ordinary humanity than any of his compeers. I simply weave a wreath of memory to offer on his natal day.