. American lands and letters. oseThat opens to the morning sky,But ere the shades of evening closeIs scattered on the ground—to die !Yet on the roses humhle bedThe sweetest dews of night are shed,As if she wept, the waste to see —But none shall weep a tear for me ! 111 1844, this Irisli-Americaii poet and politicianwent to New Orleans, and died tliere in the plen-itude of his powers, just as he was beginning totaste the rich savors of that city of the Creoles,and of its winter carnivals of sunshine. Another Georgia name should be noted in pass-ing, for the tinge of realism his sketches gave to
. American lands and letters. oseThat opens to the morning sky,But ere the shades of evening closeIs scattered on the ground—to die !Yet on the roses humhle bedThe sweetest dews of night are shed,As if she wept, the waste to see —But none shall weep a tear for me ! 111 1844, this Irisli-Americaii poet and politicianwent to New Orleans, and died tliere in the plen-itude of his powers, just as he was beginning totaste the rich savors of that city of the Creoles,and of its winter carnivals of sunshine. Another Georgia name should be noted in pass-ing, for the tinge of realism his sketches gave toSouthern literary work. I allude to Judge Long-street,* who while holding judicial positions pub-lished (in journals first) a rare series of life-likeand witty sketches of the Georgia characters hehad encountered. In later life he became a min- * Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, b. 1790 ; d. (in Missis-sippi) 1870. Georgia Scenes and Characters (originally innewspapers), published in New York, 1840, AUGUSTUS B. LONGSTREET. 27. Frovi an engraving by Buttre* ^.^-^^^ ^^^^^ Jd -:>C^r->z.^jA^^-€^ ister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and wassuccessively President of the University of Mis-sissippi and of South Carolina College. His bookmay still be found in libraries — public or 2)rivate— which have not yet tabooed the realism thatmakes the tavern talk refulgent with flashes of 28 AMERICAN LANDS &- LETTERS. negro humor and liazy with tlie smoke of tap-rooms. From West to East. As for the great modern city of Chicago, in thatdecade where we stray loosely (sometimes remem-bering the ^teens of the century and sometimesoverleaping into the tliirties) it was little knownto most i^eople* — especially reading people — saveas the site of Fort Dearborn, and of a small,scattery, trading-post which nestled under thewing of its protective stockade ; while the llat-lands, where now steel-tied temj^les (^lasonic andother) scale the skies, showed only marshes oozywith flux and re
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