THE SEWANEE REVIEW. A QUARTERLY JOURNAL. HIS REVIEW has been established under the auspices of the Faculty of the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. It will be devoted to reviews of leading books and to papers on such topics of general Literature as require fuller treatment than they receive in popular magazines, and less technical treatment than they receive in specialist publications. In other words, the REVIEW will conform more nearly to the type of the English Reviews than is usual with American periodicals. Intending contributors and publishers desiring to have their important books reviewed will address as indicated below. Where the return of an article is desired, stamps should be inclosed. In all cases the full name of the contributor must be given. Each number will consist of 128 large octavo pages, printed on heavy paper. The dates of issue will be January Ist, April 1st, July 1st, and October 1st of each year. Subscription price, $2 a year in advance. Single numbers, 50 The University of the South, SEWANEE, TENN. THE University is under the joint control of fifteen dioceses of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Opened in 1868. Located at Sewanee, Tenn., on the plateau of the Cumberland Mountains, 2,000 feet above the level of the sea. wanee has a national reputation as a health resort. Vacation from December 20th to March 15th, instead of during the summer months. The following Departments of the University are well equipped and fully organized: ACADEMIC, THEOLOGICAL, MEDICAL, A SPECIAL BUSINESS COURSE in Finance and Economy is provided for students not intending to study for degrees. This course extends over two years, and includes the study of Bookkeeping, Commercial Law, Banking, Political Science, History, English, and Modern Languages. THE SEWANEE GRAMMAR SCHOOL prepares boys for this and other Universities and for business. The Lent term of the University begins March 15th, 1900, and the Trinity term on August 9th. For catalogues and other information, address B. Lawton Wiggins, M.A., LL.D., Vice Chancellor. PRINTED AT THE PUBLISHING HOUSE M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH, BARBEE & SMITH, AGENTS, NASHVILLE, TENN., AND DALLAS, TEX. ONE evening near the close of the last century a group of young men were celebrating in the room of one of their number, and in the usual student fashion, the bestowal of the doctor's degree upon their host. The affair took place in Copenhagen, and the young scholar who was the center of attraction bore the name of Hans Christian Oersted-a name then unknown, but destined some score of years later to become immortalized by one of the greatest discoveries in the history of physical science. The conversation dealt for a time with scientific matters, but presently veered about to the existing condition of poetry in Denmark. It was generally felt and admitted that Danish poetry, since the death of Ewald, had fallen into disrepute, and that the new birth of the spirit in most other European countries had done nothing to lift Danish letters out of their deep eighteenth-century rut. At this point a young man who had hitherto taken little part in the talk rose suddenly from his corner, stepped into the midst of the little circle, brought his fist down upon the table, and exclaimed: "It has fallen, it is true; but it shall the devil take me-rise up again!" There was an earnestness in the young man's manner that checked the natural impulse to smile at such a prophecy, and his hearers felt that this was more than a common outburst of boyish enthusiasm. The young man was not quite twenty years old at the time of this episode, and practically unknown to fame; ten years later he was acclaimed the greatest poet that Denmark had ever produced, and his youthful prediction had received an ampler fulfillment than any of which those who heard it could have dreamed. Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger was born in Copenhagen |