Contents of Volume VI. Lee in Defeat......... Number 1, January, 1907. The Recent Primary Election in Georgia..John C. Reed......... 27 37 The State Department of Education and the Public High School, Elmer Ellsworth Brown..... 72 The Poetry of John Charles McNeill........Edward K. Graham............. 81 A Notable Achievement in Historical Writing, Religion in Science ....... The Crusade Against the Railroads... William Louis Poteat.........147 The Need of a Southern Program on the Negro Problem, The High School and the University.......James H. Kirkland..............223 Giosué Garducci.................. ...Antonio Marinoni...............236 ...... ..248 The Bible and Modern Scholarship... Wilbur F. Tillett......... .Charles W. Kent........ .....263 204103 PAGE The Settlement of the Cape Fear.............R. D. W. Connor.................272 Edwin Lawrence Godkin; a Great American Editor, D. A. Tompkins...................317 .....Othon Guerlac......... Ferdinand Brunetière ....... .323 David Y. Thomas................330 The Passenger Rate War in North Carolina, Robert W. Winston.............342 Political and Social Conditions in the Philippines, Marino H. de Joya...348 Some Recent Studies of Shakspere...........Robert A. Law....................357 ...George Matthew Dutcher...367 .....Edward G. Elliott...............381 Dunning's History of Reconstruction...... William K. Boyd.................387 Recent Educational Progress in the South, Book Reviews.. The Editors........... ..........393 ..402 6 The South Atlantic Quarterly. Lee in Defeat* BY THOMAS NELSON PAGE Among the characters which stand out in high light in the great panorama of the middle of the last century, when the Government of our Fathers was giving place to a new form under the changed conditions of the world, two are generally confessed to stand forth pre-eminently: Robert E. Lee and Abraham Lincoln. Of Lincoln, it may be said, that he preserved the Union, and incidentally destroyed slavery. Of Lee, it may be said with equal truth, that, although he fought against the armies of the Union, he fought for the basic principles on which the Union stands, and, in the end, by his life and example, became at once the leader of the New South, and the best fruit that the Union can furnish in proof of its right to exist. It is no part of the intention of this paper to discuss Lee generally as a soldier. This is something that has already been done by others far abler than the writer to present the grounds on which, though he failed at last, his military fame, in the estimation of all unprejudiced critics of the art of war, stands next to that of Hannibal and Alexander, Cæsar and Napoleon. In every discussion of the character of Lee the theme is so great, and has been so often dealt with by those who had the right to speak with authority, that all a new writer dares to do, is to take some particular phase of that character and devote himself to its consideration. This paper moreover is not written with the expectation or with even the hope that the writer can *January 19 will be the hundredth anniversary of the birth of General Lee. We consider ourselves exceedingly fortunate to publish this article by one whose temperament, training and genius so eminently fit him to be the interpreter of the great Southerner.-THE EDITORS. |