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...W. B. Yearns Robert Toombs of Georgia . By Thompson William Y. . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1966 . Pp. xiii , 281 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 Book Reviews 189 new way should be. It is an era, he argues, whose vital...

..., and Toombs in 1845. I had lived in Stephens s district, and on the edge of Toombs s. At the date mentioned Toombs had been three years in the Senate. The prominence nay, I might almost say, the supremacy of these two men in politics was the boast of nearly all of the people of that part of Georgia. The year...

... of the songs of the third class, their subject-matter, use, meter, and music. A bibliography of negro folk-songs is appended. The work is an interesting contribution to the study of folk-lore. Frank C. Brown. The Live oe Robert Toombs. By Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913, ix, 281...

..., was one of Person s gentry. Neither wealthy nor famous, but leading citizens of towns, hamlets, counties, concerned to lift the cloud of ignorance which in a fast-moving, fast-changing society always threatened. DUKE UNIVERSITY ANNE FIROR SCOTT Robert Toombs of Georgia. By William Y. Thompson. Baton...

... the President pleased none of the great southern leaders. A single outstanding figure, Robert Toombs, appeared in his original cabinet, and he did not last long. Davis enemies hinted that he wanted no men of ability around him and that he treated his cabinet, not as advisors as was the custom in the United...

... with reality. Through all this he spewed a steady stream of invective, bombast, irascibility, and intolerance. This is strictly a biography of a public man. The author deals only fleetingly with Toombs s family life or his successes in land speculation and plantation management. But the author does...

... these years struggled against the sec­ tionalism of both sections. The title is a most felicitous one, for on every page there is evidence of the fraternal spirit. Mr. Reed, a contemporary of Stephens and Toombs, mani­ fests a breadth of view, and a power of careful discrimina­ tion that links him...

... the former subjects of the Dragon Throne. W. H. G. NOTES AND NEWS The Houghton Mifflin Company have just published Con­ federate Portraits, by Gamaliel Bradford, Jr. The men studied in this volume are Johnston, Stuart, Longstreet, Beau­ regard, Benjamin, Stephens, Toombs, and Semmes. Readers of Lee...

.... In rendering judgment, Pro­ fessor Patrick is clear and emphatic, and he is usually convincing. One of his briefest appraisals is of Robert Toombs, who is classed as among the least helpful and reliable if not indeed the most inept, of Davis s secreta­ 452 The South Atlantic Quarterly ries. In general...

..., or to sniveling timidity. Better a photograph of Robert Toombs s house than a portrait of the man himself. If the architec­ tural record of our past must give way before the ravages of time and the march of the bulldozer, let us be thankful for such as Mr. Nichols and the late Miss Johnston who preserve what...

... in the Atlantic told us the story of the titantic south- The Teacher of Jefferson and Marshall 333 ern genius of ante-bellum days ? Approaching Robert Toombs on the possibility of the collection of a claim, a would-be client received from the fierce old Georgian the answer, you can collect this claim but you...

.... Reed. It was through Reed that he obtained the papers of Robert Toombs. Phillips relied heavily on these manuscripts for his biography of the Georgia fire-eater.18 Summer appointments at several universities granted him the opportunity to investigate southern records much more thor­ oughly...

... and difficulties that he faced in office are then described, and his successes and failures are pointed out. In rendering judgment, Pro­ fessor Patrick is clear and emphatic, and he is usually convincing. One of his briefest appraisals is of Robert Toombs, who is classed as among the least helpful and reliable...

... approximately 265,000 were whites, and 314,000 were blacks. It will be seen from these figures that 2 Boucher, C. S., In Re That Aggressive Slaveocracy, The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, VIII, pp. 48-49; Letters of Toombs, Cobb, Thomas W. Thomas et al., 1848, in Correspondence of Toombs, Stephens...

... conspicuous figures in Southern political life. He was a strong personal and political friend of Calhoun and after the death of the great leader of the South be­ came one of the most pronounced champions of States rights. With Jefferson Davis and Robert Toombs he made up what in the last decade before the war...

..., the photographs and the text taken together say enough. The Greek Revival houses of the cotton planters, pretentious and imitative perhaps but withal rather grand, admit to arrogance, bombast, indelicacy even, but not to pettiness, meanness, or to sniveling timidity. Better a photograph of Robert Toombs s house...

... the letters of Secretaries Toombs, Hunter, and Benjamin to diplomatic, consular and special or con­ fidential agents abroad. 6. Consular correspondence, including that of Hotze, De Leon, McRae, Quintero, Fitzpatrick, La Sere, Avegeno, Bannon, Capston, Dowling, Labor, Walker, Lee, Helm, Heyleger, Thompson...

..., Alexander H.: Confederate Portraits, 1914. Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Portraits of American Women, 1919. Stuart, J. E. B.: Confederate Portraits, 1914. Sumner, Charles: Union Portraits, 1916. Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles Maurice de: Saints and Sinners, 1932. Thomas, George Henry: Union Portraits, 1916. Toombs...

... on that occa­ sion; the great Stonewall Jackson, the Southern Cromwell, who for all his eccentricities, military lapses, and inability to get along with some fellow officers, became the one man indispensable to Lee; Robert Toombs, the political general, who illustrated the fact that there were many generals...

..., Benjamin, Stephens, Toombs, and Semmes. Readers of Lee the American will welcome this new work by the brilliant Massachusetts essayist and biographer. It will be reviewed in a later number of the Quarterly. $2.50 net. Henry Holt and Company have begun the publication of a quarterly journal called...