transportation. He secured both and sent back this characteristic telegram, "My people are saved!"

John Allan was educated at the LaGrange Military Academy, Alabama, and entered the Confederate service as a private. He was taken prisoner, was carried to Camp Morton, Indiana, and remained there fifteen months.

After the war he began to study medicine, and graduated at the University of Louisville, and the Bellevue Medical College, New York. Soon after graduation he became assistant demonstrator. He organized and founded in 1882 the first post-graduate medical school in the United States, and possibly in the world. He was surgeon in Mount Sinai Hospital from 1880 to 1897.

He married, in 1886, Florence N. Sims, the daughter of the noted Dr. Marion Sims. In that same year he became president of the New York State Medical Association, and in 1901 of the American Medical Association.

He has written Essays on Surgical Anatomy and Surgery, Text-book on Surgery, Life of General N. B. Forrest, and numberless sketches on medical, historical and biographical subjects. His home is in New York.

HANNIS TAYLOR was born at New Berne, North Carolina, in 1851. He was educated at the University of North Carolina, and received from the Universities of Edinburgh and Dublin the degree of LL.D. In 1878 he married Miss Leonora Le Baron, Mobile, Alabama. He was sent as a minister to Spain in 1893; remained there four years, and was made Special Consul for the United States government to arrange Spanish treaty claims. Later he was made professor of constitutional and international law at Columbia University, and has held that position ever since.

His work, The Origin and Growth of the English Consti

tution (two volumes), has rightly given him an international reputation. It should form the basis for constitutional study in all universities. It has been called the greatest book that has appeared in the South for many years. He has also written International Public Law and Jurisdiction and Procedure of the Supreme Court of the United States.

WILLIAM PETErfield Trent, born at Richmond, Virginia, in 1862, is the son of Dr. Peterfield Trent and Lucy Carter Burwell. He was graduated from the University of Virginia, received the LL.D. degree from Wake Forest College, and took a post-graduate course in history from Johns Hopkins. He taught in Richmond, then accepted the professorship of English and later became Dean at Sewanee in the University of the South. He married in 1896 Miss Alice Lyman, of East Orange, New Jersey. He had edited quite a number of books, as Select Poems of Milton, Essays of Macaulay, Poems and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Balzac's comédie Humaine, Colonial Prose and Poetry, Southern Writers, Selections in Prose and Verse, besides others. He edited the Sewanee Review from 1892-1900.

He has written English Culture in Virginia, Life of William Gilmore Simms, Southern Statesmen of the Old Régime, Robert E. Lee, Verses, John Milton: a Short Study of His Life and Works, Authority of Criticism, War and Civilization, The Progress of the United States in the Century, A History of American Literature, History of the United States for Schools, A Brief History of American Literature, and Greatness in Literature, and other literary addresses.

He is now professor of English literature at the Columbia University, New York, having accepted the position in 1900.

LYON GARDINER TYLER was born at Sherwood Forest, Virginia, in 1853. His father was President John Tyler, a man whose place in literature has never been fully acknowledged: none can deny the value of his great work, "Dead in the Cabinet." It is as fine a piece of English composition as can be found. His mother was Julia Gardiner, the second wife of the President. Lyon Gardiner was educated in large measure under private teachers until prepared for the Uni- || versity of Virginia, from which he was graduated in 1875 with the degree of A.M. Two years later he was made professor of belles-lettres at William and Mary College, although only twenty-four years of age. He moved to Memphis, Tennessee, the next year, having been offered a position as principal of the High School in that city. Later he decided to practice law and went to his native State and opened an office in Richmond. It is almost impossible to offer attractions in any other State great enough to hold a real true Virginian. He was made president of William and Mary College in 1888, and moved to Williamsburg, his present home.

He married in 1878 Annie B. Tucker, the daughter of Colonel St. George Tucker, of Virginia.

He is editor and proprietor of the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, founded in 1892, and through its pages has been able to give valuable information regarding the early history of his State. As has been stated before, the South has not felt the importance of keeping her records, and her sons and daughters of to-day are realizing the mistake that has been made and many are working earnestly to rectify it. Old documents, scrapbooks, family letters and genealogical tables are being unearthed which throw light upon the history of the past. All honor and encouragement should be given to the efforts of such men as Dr. Tyler, of Virginia. Only one other college in the United States ante

dates William and Mary, which proves that the South has not been indifferent to education, and it is but to be expected that from her records much of the early history of our country should be learned. The State Board of Education made him one of its members in 1903. His principal writings are The Letters and Times of the Tylers, Parties and Patronage in the United States, Cradle of the Republic, The Contribution of William and Mary to the Making of the Union, and many other literary addresses and papers.

FRANKLIN VERZELIUS NEWTON PAINTER, D.D., was born. in Hampshire county, Virginia, in 1852. He was educated at Roanoke College, Virginia, studied theology at Salem, studied abroad at Paris and Bonn, was ordained for the Lutheran ministry, but later turned his attention to teaching. Since 1882 he has been professor of modern languages in Roanoke College. He has written many books; some text-books on literature which were well received not only by the schools of ̈ his own State but by other States.

His works are: A History of Education, Luther on Education, History of Christian Worship, Introduction to English Literature, Introduction to American Literature, A History of English Literature, Lyrical Vignettes, The Reformation Dawn, Poets of the South, Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism, Great Pedagogical Essays from Plato to Spencer, English and American Literature, and addresses, and numberless contributions to reviews and periodicals.

1786.

THE DABNEYS OF VIRGINIA.

1907.

WRITERS OF NATIONAL ERA AND LATER REPUBLIC.

VIRGINIUS DABNEY was born at Elmington, Gloucester county, Virginia, in 1835. The Dabney family of Virginia has been a very noted one. The name evidently was originally D'Aubigné, and connected with the French historians of that name. In England they were called Daubeney. There have been two families of the same name in Virginia noted as writers-one from Gloucester county and the other from Louiza county.

Virginius was educated by private tutors and prepared for the University of Virginia, from which he was graduated in 1855. He began the practice of law, and then abandoned it for literature, but the War between the States put an end to this. He volunteered at once and served throughout the entire time. His only literary work of merit, Don Miff, reached its fourth edition in six months.

His eldest son, Richard Heath Dabney, was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1860. He was educated at the University of Virginia, where he received his degree of A. M. Later he went abroad and studied at Heidelberg. In 1888 he married Miss Mary A. Bentley, of Richmond, Virginia. She lived only a year, and he then married, in 1899, Miss Lily H. Davis, of Albemarle county, Virginia. He taught in the New York Latin School, became professor of history in the Indiana University, and professor of history at the University of Virginia. His works are The Causes of the French Revolution, John Randolph, a Character Sketch, and many miscellaneous re