PROFESSOR J. M. WHITE, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi. PROFESSOR CHARLES HILLMAN BROUGH, of Mississippi College. PROFESSOR W. L. WEBER, of Millsaps College. PRESIDENT J. R. PRESTON, of Stanton College.
All persons who are interested in the work of the Society and desire to promote its objects are invited to become members.
There is no initiation fee. The only cost to members is, annual dues, $2.00, or life dues, $30.00. Members receive all publications of the Society free of charge.
Donations of relics, manuscripts, books and papers are solicited for the Museum and Archives of the Society.
Address all communications to the Secretary of the Mississippi State Historical Society, University P. O., Mississippi.
CONTENTS
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|---|---|
| Title, | [1] |
| Officers of the Society for 1899, | [3] |
| Contents, | [5] |
| The Historical Element in Recent Southern Literature, by Prof. C. Alphonso Smith, | [7] |
| Irwin Russell—Firstfruits of the Southern Romantic Movement, by Prof. W. L. Weber, | [15] |
| William Ward, a Mississippi Poet Entitled to Distinction, by Prof. Dabney Lipscomb, | [32] |
| Sherwood Bonner, Her Life and Place in the Literature of the South, by Prof. Alexander L. Bondurant, | [43] |
| 'The Daughter of the Confederacy,' Her Life, Character and Writings, by Prof. Chiles Clifton Ferrell, | [67] |
| Sir William Dunbar, Pioneer Scientist of Mississippi, by Prof. Franklin L. Riley, | [85] |
| History of Taxation in Mississippi, by Prof. Charles Hillman Brough, | [113] |
| Territorial Growth of Mississippi, by Prof. J. M. White, | [125] |
| The Early Slave Laws of Mississippi, by Alfred H. Stone, Esq., | [135] |
| Federal Courts, Judges, Attorneys and Marshals in Mississippi, by Thomas McAdory Owen, Esq., | [147] |
| Running Mississippi's South Line, by Peter J. Hamilton, Esq., | [157] |
| Elizabeth Female Academy—The Mother of Female Colleges, by Bishop Chas. B. Galloway, | [169] |
| Early History of Jefferson College, by Mr. J. K. Morrison, | [179] |
| The Rise and Fall of Negro Rule in Mississippi, by Dunbar Rowland, Esq., | [189] |
| Glimpses of the Past, by Mrs. Helen D. Bell, | [201] |
| The Historical Opportunity of Mississippi, by Prof. R. W. Jones, | [219] |
| Nanih Waiya, the Sacred Mound of the Choctaws, by Mr. H. S. Halbert, | [223] |
| Index, | [235] |