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In Which a Woman Tells the Truth About Herself 147 149 New York Letter 150 Philadelphia Letter 150 Boston Letter 150 151 News and Notes L ITTLE Pilgrimages Among the George Cary Eggleston A CRITIC in Baltimore has remarked: "No writer in the score and more of novelists now exploiting in the Southern field can, for a moment, compare in truth and interest to Mr. Eggleston. He is to-day the single novelist who writes of the Virginias and Carolinas as they really were before the war between the States." The word of a Southern critic in this case must needs be accepted by a Northerner. We might add that Mr. Eggleston, in aiming to write wholesome stories, has at times too perceptibly suppressed his masculinity. Which reminds us that some thirty years ago Henry James, who was then doing the American correspondence for Literature, came across a copy of "A Rebel's Recollections," by George Cary Eggleston. What affected the keen young critic most was the rebel's suppressed vitality. Mr. James was moved to inquire how in the name of Mars a man who had survived so many extraordinary dramas and tragedies such thrilling romances and such appalling carnages could write in cold blood, as if of house parties and sham fights at the country fairs. Some day, said James, Mr. Eggleston will awake to the loss of his opportunities. The awakening has come. It began in 1901 with the appearance of "A Carolina Cavalier," and it has been continued in "Dorothy South" and in "The Master of Warlock." Mr. Kipling has told us of the ship that found herself. Now Mr. Eggleston may write intimately of the author who found himself. It took Mr. Eggleston a good many years to find himself. No doubt the good red blood was pumping out of his heart all the time, and no doubt his notebooks were orderly storehouses of romantic wealth; but the prick that drew the blood and still small voice that urged the modest historian to higher flights were tardy, very tardy. It may have been the dreadful incubus of journalism that closeted this entertaining romancist for so long a time. Mr. Eggleston was a journalist practically from the close of the Civil War to 1900. The author's father, Joseph Cary Eggleston, migrated from his native State of Virginia to Indiana in his youth. He settled down and practised his profession of law in the town of Vevay. George was the second of four children, the oldest of whom was Edward, the novelist and historian, who died last year. The date of George's birth was November 26, 1839. When he was six or seven years old his mother became a widow. At the age of fifteen he was graduated from the Madison High School and entered the Indiana Asbury University. About the middle of his second year he, in company with nearly all the other students, was expelled. It was probably an exaggerated instance of the common frontier disputes between pupils and teacher, in which usually the more stubborn force won. Returning to Madison, whither his mother had gone from Vevay, George took a school on the edge of the town, at a place called Ryker's Ridge, and there this 153 sixteen-year-old teacher had pupils ranging from in 132 154 153 154 * Copyright, 1904, by L. C. Page and Company (Inc.). |