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...R. H. Woody One Hundred Great Years: The Story of the Times-Picayune from Its Founding to 1940 . By Dabney Thomas Ewing . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1944 . Pp. xii , 552 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 Books 231 readers who...

...Robert H. Woody William Henry Drayton and the American Revolution . By Dabney William M. Dargan Marion . Albuquerque : The University of New Mexico Press , 1962 . Pp. xiii , 225 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 614 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...Gerald M. Capers Richmond: The Story of a City . By Dabney Virginius . Garden City : Doubleday & Company, Inc. , 1976 . Pp. xii , 412 . 51 illustrations. $12.95 . Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 BO-OKS Richmond: The Story of a City. By Virginius Dabney...

...Paul M. Gaston Across the Years: Memories of a Virginian . By Dabney Virginius . Garden City : Doubleday & Company, Inc. , 1978 . Pp. xii , 420 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 BOOKS Across the Years: Memories of a Virginian. By Virginius Dabney...

... should simply be welcomed as additions to a growing and exciting field rather than as refreshing antidotes or exceptions to a parochial past. In light of this new literature the publication of Virginius Dabney s Mr. Jefferson s University (1981) by the University Press of Virginia was a cause for great...

... that provoked Woodrow s commentary were the work of the Rever­ end Robert L. Dabney, D.D., who had been professor at the Union Theological Seminary at Hampden-Sydney, Virginia, since 1853. As early as 1861 the same year in which Woodrow entered 490 The South Atlantic Quarterly upon the Perkins Professorship...

...; just as the central event of the novel, the wedding of Dabney Fairchild, is shown in the perspective of five generations in the Mississippi Delta. The effect is cumulative, as seemingly trivial matters become important as in the novels of Jane Austen in filling out the history of a particular family...

... of Robert Lewis Dabney. By Thomas Cary John­ son. Richmond, Va.: The Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1903, vii., 585 pp. It would be difficult to find a more pronounced type of the conservative Southerner than Dr. Dabney, the story of whose life is given in this volume. While the reader may not agree...

.... Puryear, of Richmond College;7 that of Dr. R. L. Dabney, of Union Theological Seminary, was quite similar. According to Dr. Ruffner these views grew largely out of the old contro­ versy over slavery, which had driven men into a depreciation of the claims of working people, and a denial of the power...

... Hundred Great Years: The Story of the Times-Picayune from Its Founding to 1940. By Thomas Ewing Dabney. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1944. Pp. xii, 552. $4.00. This is a remarkable book, combining as it does a history of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, large fragments of the story...

...David W. Southern Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 An American Dilemma Revisited: Myrdalism and White Southern Liberals David W. Southern By 1944 the racial ramifications of the Second World War had hit the South hard. In 1943 Virginius Dabney, the liberal editor of the Richmond...

.... R. L. Dabney, minister, and professor ifi Hampden-Sidney College, a man who repre­ sented the educational philosophy of artistocratic, ante bellum Virginia, but hardly the prevailing educational theory of post bellum days. The controversy consisted of a series of letters published in the newspapers...

... to counterbalance the tendency to think that his generation of Presbyterian clergymen were mostly cut from the grim pattern that produced James H. Thornwell and Robert L. Dabney. These men gained distinction and a lasting reputation as systematic and polemical theologians. Smith s influence was based on his good...

... H. Thornwell and Robert L. Dabney. These men gained distinction and a lasting reputation as systematic and polemical theologians. Smith s influence was based on his good judgment in matters of church polity, his fluency in church courts, his capacity for friendship, and his conciliatory disposition...

... Harris had lost the Enquirer-Sun, the Richmond editor, Virginius Dabney, seeking to establish a pedigree for southern liberalism, described Harris s work as one of the most inspiring in American journalism. Here was a man who valued principle above pelf, who scorned to remain silent in the face...

... works such as Charles Merz, The Dry Decade, popular histories such as those of Fred J. Cook and John Kobler on organized crime, and partisan sources such as Virginius Dabney s hostile biography of Bishop Cannon. The work is largely uninformed by 480 The South Atlantic Quarterly recent scholarship...

..., Holbrook, who died in 1876, leaving the news­ paper and a debt of $80,000. Mr. Dabney gives a rather vivid descrip­ tion of how this remarkable woman used her personality, business acumen, and literary skill to pull the paper through. But editor Lumsden, who was evidently an important person until his...

... on this contention, or ask how their religiosity (p. 174) actually worked in their otherwise secular idealism, or how it was that religion was also the basis of thought of avowedly conservative and reactionary southerners. In his best chapters, on Virginius Dabney and Lillian Smith, Sosna veers away from his...

... will appeal only to Richmonders these parts the general reader can skip but the rest is highly significant. Like Herodotus, Dabney tells his story in a straightforward man­ ner with clarity and charm. The book is quite a contrast to classic pioneer works on cities by academic historians, e.g., Thomas Jeffer­...

... to follow up on this contention, or ask how their religiosity (p. 174) actually worked in their otherwise secular idealism, or how it was that religion was also the basis of thought of avowedly conservative and reactionary southerners. In his best chapters, on Virginius Dabney and Lillian Smith, Sosna...