Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7.
Reverend J. William Jones, Ed.

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The Southern Review for January, 1879, has been laid on our table by the new editor and proprietor, C. J. Griffith, Esq., Richmond, Virginia, by whom this quarterly will be hereafter published. Under the able management of Dr. A, T. Bledsoe and his accomplished daughter, Mrs. S. Bledsoe Herrick, the Review won a wide reputation, which has not suffered during the period since Dr. Bledsoe's death, when it has been under the management of Mrs. Herrick, who, during her father's life, was accustomed to contribute to the Review articles so original in conception, so able in argument, so full of learning and so fresh and vigorous in style that they were attributed to Dr. Bledsoe himself.

If the present number is a fair specimen of what we may expect of the Review under its new management, then we predict for it an even wider reputation — not for ability, for that were scarcely possible, but for variety, popular interest and real value as an exponent of Southern thought and Southern literature. We regret that our limited space will allow us little more than a bare mention of the table of contents of this number:

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In Southern Poetry — a sketch, Rev. H. Melville Jackson gives a very pleasing and, in the main, judicious statement of the claims of Southern poets, together with some well selected illustrations of their style.

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Rev. Dr. W. P. Harrison gives an interesting sketch of the rise, progress and extension of the Southern Methodist church.

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[207] Professor George Frederick Holmes treats The eastern question and the Berlin treaty with the fulness and ability which characterize the productions of the distinguished author.

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Frances Hodgson Burnett and her Novels is an article from the graceful pen of Mrs. Herrick, and in her happiest vein, and will make the readers of the Review rejoice to know that she is still to be a regular contributor.

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Hon. William M. Burwell, of New Orleans, contributes an interesting and valuable paper On Yellow fever.

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General B. T. Johnston's article on The civil rights bill and the enforcement act is a very able and timely discussion of the questions involved, and a very strong putting of certain fundamental principles of our Government which seem to have grown obsolete in these days of “Reconstruction” (so-called).

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The other articles--Commercial future of the United States, by W. P. H.; Birds in Song and the Songs of Birds, by Miss K. M. Rowland; Dr. William E. Munsey, by Rev. E. E. Hoss; Charlotte Cushman, by Mrs. James Gittings, and Gold interests of Virginia and the South, by John Tyler-seem all to be cleverly done, while Table talk and Book Notices, by the editor, clearly indicate that these departments of the Review will be fresh, sprightly and readable. On the whole, we cordially commend the Review as worthy of a wide circulation.