HE seven chapters included in this book are an abridgment of ten comprised in its complete form.

conditions compelled the omission of a second chapter on Poe and of two others on the work and career of Whistler.

The aim of the work will be clear to all who share the author's conviction that the world has long owed an unacknowledged debt to the genius of the Southern States of the American Uniona debt whose nature and extent he here attempts to indicate.

Acknowledgment is due the publishers, who have authorized the use of various quotations employed and essential to the verification of the contexts in which they occur, of the following works of reference: The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston by William Preston Johnston, Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman (D. Appleton & Co., New York); Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: "The Capture of Fort Donelson" by Gen. Lew Wallace, "Grant's Last Campaign" by Gen. Horace Porter, "Was Either the Better Soldier?" by Col. T. A. Dodge (in Century Magazine, May, 1890), Life of Lincoln by Nicolay and Hay (Century Co., New York); History of the United States, Vol. III, by Julian Hawthorne (P. F. Collier & Son, New York); Vision of War and Why We Honor Thomas Paine by R. G. Ingersoll (C. P. Farrell, New York); Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Life of Edgar Allan Poe by G. Woodberry (Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston); Essays: "The Socialist Ideal" and "The Woman Question" by Paul Lafargue, Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels (C. H. Kerr & Co., Chicago); World's Famous Orations (Funk & Wagnalls); Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by Col. G. F. R. Henderson (Longmans, Green & Co., New York); Cambridge Modern History, Vol. VII, The United States: A Political History by Goldwin Smith (Macmillan); Leaves of Grass and Specimen Days in America by Walt Whitman (David McKay, Philadelphia); The Army of the Potomac by Chauncey M. Depew (Penn Publishing Co., Philadelphia); Encyclopedia Americana.

London, Canada, May 15, 1918.

J. A. O.