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...After the Civil War (when he served in the Fourth Mississippi Cavalry), he endeavored to revive the former glories of the South by writing of its people, its customs. The Creoles of Louisiana were immortalized in Old Creole Days. The Grandissimes, The Creoles of Louisiana, Madame Delphine, Dr. Sevier. When ignorant and prejudiced persons objected to his delineations of octoroons and quadroons and his delicate ridicule of some of the provincialisms of the Creoles, he went North and made his home at Northampton, Mass...
...Narcisse discourses on Poetry; (b) Death of Narcisse, from Dr. Sevier-George W. Cable...
...Snug Harbor," by Franklin H. North; "American Wild Animals in Art," by Julian Hawthorne; and a scholarly paper by Edward Eggleston on "Commerce in the Colonies." In fiction, Henry James' new story, "Lady Barberina," in this number, concerns itself with the complications of marriage settlements; Mr. Cable's "Dr. Sevier" is continued; and Robert Grant's story of "An Average Man" is concluded. The short story of the number is a sketch of character and incident, by H. C. Bunner, entitled "The Red Silk Handkerchief...