... synthesis of the subject yet published. Alexander deconde The Desolate South 1865-1866: A Picture of the Battlefields and the Devastated Confederacy. By John T. Trowbridge. Edited by Gordon Carroll. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1956. Pp. xvi, 320. $6.00. In August, 1865, John T. Trowbridge...

... deconde The Desolate South 1865-1866: A Picture of the Battlefields and the Devastated Confederacy. By John T. Trowbridge. Edited by Gordon Carroll. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1956. Pp. xvi, 320. $6.00. In August, 1865, John T. Trowbridge, a Connecticut journalist and writer of antislavery...

... over-all synthesis of the subject yet published. Alexander deconde The Desolate South 1865-1866: A Picture of the Battlefields and the Devastated Confederacy. By John T. Trowbridge. Edited by Gordon Carroll. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1956. Pp. xvi, 320. $6.00. In August, 1865, John T...

... Trowbridge Dana, and Benjamin Welles, the last-named a pioneer proponent of a romantic breakthrough. As for the role of the Anthologists in the total cultural history of New England, Mr. Simpson believes that they determined the dominant mode of nineteenth-century New England letters. The word dominant...

... Buckminster, Edmund Trowbridge Dana, and Benjamin Welles, the last-named a pioneer proponent of a romantic breakthrough. As for the role of the Anthologists in the total cultural history of New England, Mr. Simpson believes that they determined the dominant mode of nineteenth-century New England letters...

... subscription lists, influencing booksellers, contributing to the works of others, and writing prefaces and dedications. Each of these modes of patronage is illustrated by abundant and convincing examples. And incidentally a new explanation of Lord Chesterfield s behavior is suggested. Hoyt Trowbridge...

..., are professedly American. Corollaries of this unhappy interpretation of the bar sinister might be multiplied. The jealousy of a white wife is horrible in novels ranging from Mrs. Victor s famous Beadle book, Maum Guinea s Children, to Trowbridge s New England 398 The South Atlantic Quarterly preachment, Neighbor...

... in Yankee silence, John s death did not make him morose for life. In the same respect, when Thoreau stepped onto Katahdin, he saw that it was not friendly; he felt, as Blair and Trowbridge put it, not merely uninvited but positively repelled ;16 but this titanic impassivity did not exist at Walden...

..., 728. 374 The South Atlantic Quarterly resolutions embodying the same sentiments were enacted.81 The recorded impressions of travelers who visited the South during this period are in accord with the dominant trend of opinion. John T. Trowbridge, who toured the South directly after the war, expressed...

... life in his more conventional verse, and in New York State by John Townsend Trowbridge,-whose farm poetry is typified by his Evening at the Farm. The other contribution of these writers of rural verse taken as a group is found in the fact that they brought our poetry back to the 204 The South...

... the categories and structures of that profane world. In his 9. John Taylor Trowbridge, in The Shock of Recognition: The Development of Litera­ ture in the United States Recorded by the Men Who Made It, ed. Edmund Wilson (1943; rpt. New York, 1955), 1:270; Emerson, The Poet, in Selections, 230, 224; Emerson...