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MEMORIAL doing active
service,” is the thought that
comes to me when in read
ing the last book of Thomas
E. Watson I find in it a strong and
beautiful tribute to a group of South
ern writers who are being forgotten
in these turbulent days, when men
and women find no time for the fam
ily library, and when the books of
men who first gave to the South her
right to claim the culture of the na
tion are moth-eaten on back-room
shelves.
Mr. Watson entitles his book
•'Prose Miscellanies.” It w’as pub
lished in Thomson by the Jefferso
nian Publishing Company, and in
many respects meets the call sounded
by a daughter of the Confederacy in
Washington the other day, when she
justly claimed that the history and
romance and literature of the old
South was being lost through the
lack of interest on the part of those
whose business it should be to keep
ever alive the memory of the great
men of the cavalier time. Not long
ago an audience of women here were
held spellbound with interest by the
discourse of a young clergyman who
made the same appeal, that the
women of the cultural organizations
make sure the perpetuation of the
achievement of men who gave to the
South her most scholarly sons.
