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...MISS RAVENEL'S CONVERSION-J. W. De Forest-Harper...
...CAROLINA RICE PLANTATION OF THE FIFTIES-Herbert Ravenel Sass-Morrow...
...Carolina Rice Plantation of the Fifties celebrates the glories of this vanished life with 30 water color paintings by Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, a 52-page discussion of the Rice Coast by Dr. Herbert Ravenel Sass, a 38-page memoir of boyhood on a rice plantation by the late Daniel Elliott Huger Smith. The result is a handsome gift book in which Alice Huger Smith's paintings of lagoons, salt creeks, rice fields in winter, threshing and harvesting scenes, easily carry off all honors. Dr. Sass's discussion is about evenly divided between interesting facts on the Rice...
Englishmen first settled along the Ashley River in 1670, ten years later moved their government to the rich peninsula between the Ashley and the Cooper. Rice and cotton gave prosperity. Cavalier second sons, high-born French Huguenots, gave aristocracy. Great names- Pinckney, Rutledge, Lewis, Calhoun, Gadsden, Ravenel, Laurens, Petigru-rose and fell. The St. Cecilia society balls dazzled Northern visitors. To see the magnolia gardens, men crossed the sea. In St. Andrew's hall on Dec. 20, 1860, South Carolina voted itself out of the Union. Last big Charleston event: the $5,000,000 earthquake...
...University Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society has chosen the following five Seniors for membership in its first spring election: Edwin Francis Carpenter of Melrose; Arthur Ravenel Duane of Boston; Warren Francis Manning of Portiand, Me.; Charles Francis Ramseyer of Jamaica Plain, N. Y.; and Arthur Milton Young of Philadelphia...