fessor J. T. L. Preston of the Virginia Military Institute. Mrs. Preston spent all of her remaining days. in Lexington, with the exception of the last few years in Baltimore. She had already begun her literary work before her marriage. Throughout her busy life an occasional volume of verse was issued five in all. So sweet was her disposition and so beautiful her life that many rose up to call her blessed. She died in Baltimore, March 28, 1897. BIBLIOGRAPHY W. M. Baskervill: Southern Writers. Includes Lanier and Russell. S. A. Link: Pioneers of Southern Literature. (Hayne, Ticknor, Simms.) Stedman-Woodberry: Poems of Poe. Woodberry Life of Poe. American Men of Letters. P. H. Hayne: Complete Poems. Timrod: Memorial edition of Poems. Lanier: Poems. Russell: Poems. Simms: Poetical Works, in two volumes. Benton: In the Poe Circle. Ryan: Poems. S. T. Wallis: Complete Works, in four volumes. J. B. Hope: A Wreath of Virginia Bay Leaves. M. J. Preston: Colonial Ballads and Cartoons. W. P. Trent: Life of W. G. Simms. American Men of Letters. Henry Austin: Article on Timrod in International Review, September, 1880. C. H. Ross: Article on E. C. Pinkney, Sewanee Review, May, 1896. C. H. Ross: Article on A. B. Meek, Sewanee Review, August, 1896. W. L. Weber, Irwin Russell's Place in Literary History, Methodist Review (Nashville), November, 1899. M. E. Gates: Lanier, Presbyterian Review, October, 1887. C. C. Jones: Life, Literary Labors, and Neglected Grave of R. H. Wilde. G. W. Ranck: The Bivouac of the Dead and its Author. SOUTHERN POETS EDGAR ALLAN POE TO HELEN Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicæan barks of yore, On desperate seas long wont to roam, Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche 10 |