BY ISABELLA HOWE FISKE.

All seems a dream of art—upon the arch

Of the grey bridge, the dim canal that spans,

A child steps, hand-raised, and my eye that scans,

Can scarce believe that here too, centuries march,

For Titian might have painted her just so,

Slow-foot Venetian centuries ago.

JOSEPH A. ALTSHELER.

Joseph A. Altsheler, whose story, “The Lost Herd,” follows, is a representative type of the new generation of Southerners in contemporary literature.