"'Now Andy,' said old Kit, replacing the cheese on Andy's nose." From Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor with a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley.

"'FLEE FROM THE WRATH TO COME'" From An Elephant's Track and Other Stories.

"'THE BALANCE OF 'EM MUST OF GOT LOST'" From An Elephant's Track and Other Stories.

"'WHAR MEK YOU WANTER GO IN SWIMMIN'?'" From An Elephant's Track and Other Stories.

"'YOU BETTER PUT ON A THICKER COAT, BUD'" From An Elephant's Track and Other Stories.

"HE THREW HIMSELF AGAINST THE DOOR" From An Elephant's Track and Other Stories.

"IT YIELDED SUDDENLY, AS IF OPENED FROM WITHIN" From An Elephant's Track and Other Stories.

"SHE FLUSHED AND HER BROWN EYES DROOPED" From An Elephant's Track and Other Stories.

"SHE TURNED SLOWLY" [Frontispiece Image] From An Elephant's Track and Other Stories.

"Some of the men were sobbing" From The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire.

"Stella stared at the lifeless form" From The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire.

[Frontispiece Image] "The High Court of Justice of the Anglo-Saxon race suddenly transformed into a Negro minstrel farce" [See page 306] From The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire.

[Frontispiece Image] From Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency.

[Frontispiece Image] [Signed] Very faithfully yr W. Gilmore Simms From Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. I. I. Norman Maurice, a Tragedy; II. Atalantis, a Tale of the Sea; III. Tales and Traditions of the South; IV. The City of the Silent.

[Frontispiece Image] [Signed Abram J. Ryan] From Father Ryan's Poems.

[Half-Title Page Image] HORSE-SHOE ROBINSON. NEW-YORK. C.P. Putnam. From Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency.

"A paleness more ghastly than that of death come over the widow's face as she heard the sentence. Falling to the earth, she groveled at the feet of Captain Suggs." From Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor with a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley.

"ADDED TO THE FOLD." From Life on the Mississippi.

"AIN'T THAT SO, THOMPSON?" From Life on the Mississippi.

ALLIGATOR PILOTS. From Life on the Mississippi.

"Almighty Nature, the first law of God, Perforce I followed." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"And thar lay Jess, which had stumped his toe agin somethin', right flat of his face, a-moanin' dreadful!" From Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor with a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley.

"AND THEN HE DANCED" From An Elephant's Track and Other Stories.

"And, on nearing the arbor, was struck with surprise at seeing some one with her." From The Rivals: A Chickahominy Story.

ANOTHER VICTIM. From Life on the Mississippi.

"ANY BOAT GONE UP?" From Life on the Mississippi.

"ARE YOU HORACE BIGSBY'S CUB?" From Life on the Mississippi.

"At this point he called Charley to him, and taking his hand, placed Nellie's in it," &c. From The Rivals: A Chickahominy Story.

The author and his mother arrested and carried back into slavery. From Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave. Written by Himself.

A BAD EAR. From Life on the Mississippi.

BART DAVIS'S DANCE. "Black silk in h-ll is thar', scream'd she, a-hissin' like onto a cat, an' commenced a-pullin' up by the roots his long har like it wer flax." From Sut Lovingood. Yarns Spun by a "Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool." Warped and Wove for Public Wear.

"BEAMING BENIGNANTLY." From Life on the Mississippi.

"BEEN LAYING YOU FOR DUFFERS." From Life on the Mississippi.

"BESIEGING THE PILOT." From Life on the Mississippi.

Bob Herring's Camp-fire. From The Hive of "The Bee-Hunter," A Repository of Sketches, Including Peculiar American Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports.

["Klutchem looked at him in perfect astonishment"] From Colonel Carter of Cartersville.

"BURST INTO A FURY." From Life on the Mississippi.

THE CAPTAIN. From Life on the Mississippi.

CHAMPIGNY. From Balcony Stories.

"CHANGING WATCH." From Life on the Mississippi.

"A CHILL FELL THERE." From Life on the Mississippi.

CLEANSING THEMSELVES. From Life on the Mississippi.

A CLOSE INSPECTION. From Life on the Mississippi.

[The Colonel's Office] From Colonel Carter of Cartersville.

"Come, sweetheart, hear me!" From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"COME! TURN OUT!" From Life on the Mississippi.

COUNTING THE VOTE. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE CURE OF POETRY From The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi. A Series of Sketches.

A DAIRY FARM. From Life on the Mississippi.

DANGEROUS DITCHING. From Life on the Mississippi.

DARNELL vs. WATSON From Life on the Mississippi.

"DE PARSTER OF DE FUST METHODIS' CHURCH, LIMITED.&rdquo [Page 32. [Frontispiece Image] From Dialect Tales.

"DIS AIN'T NUTHIN' SHORT OF MURDER, IT AIN'T." From Dialect Tales.

"DO YOU SEE THAT STUMP?" From Life on the Mississippi.

THE DOOR WAS A-CRACK. From Life on the Mississippi.

DR. JEX. From Dialect Tales.

DROWSY ENGINEERS. From Life on the Mississippi.

DRUMMERS. From Life on the Mississippi.

EALER SAVES HIS FLUTE. From Life on the Mississippi.

"ED GOT UP MAD." From Life on the Mississippi.

"AN EMANCIPATED SLAVE." From Life on the Mississippi.

EMPTYING THE WOOD-FLAT. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE EXPLOSION. A STARTLED BARBER. From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

[The Advance Agent] From Colonel Carter of Cartersville.

A FATAL BLOW. From Life on the Mississippi.

"FIVE HUNDRED BETTER." From Life on the Mississippi.

FROM AN OIL PAINTING BY THOMAS C. CORNER OWNED BY THE UNIVERSITY CLUB, BALTIMORE, MD. COL. RICHARD MALCOM JOHNSTON [Frontispiece Image] From Autobiography of Col. Richard Malcolm Johnston.

Simion Suggs, JR. [Frontispiece Image] From The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi. A Series of Sketches.

[Frontispiece Image] SIMON SUGGS. From Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor with a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley.

"GAMBLING DOWN BELOW." From Life on the Mississippi.

"GET A MEMORANDUM BOOK." From Life on the Mississippi.

"'GOOD-DAY,' HE SAID, TAKING OFF HIS HAT." From Dialect Tales.

"HAULED ABOARD." From Life on the Mississippi.

"HE CLUNG TO A COTTON BALE." From Life on the Mississippi.

["Down a flight of stone steps"] From Colonel Carter of Cartersville.

HE DROPPED ON HIS KNEES. From Life on the Mississippi.

"HE EASILY BORROWED SIX DOLLARS." From Life on the Mississippi.

"HE FACED ABOUT WITH A LOW BOW" From An Elephant's Track and Other Stories.

"HE IS HAPPY WHERE HE IS." From Life on the Mississippi.

"HE JUMPED UP IN THE AIR." From Life on the Mississippi.

"HE KNOCKED THEM SPRAWLING." From Life on the Mississippi.

"HENRY AND I SAT CHATTING." From Life on the Mississippi.

"HERE, YOU TAKE HER." From Life on the Mississippi.

HIS MAIDEN BATTLE. From Life on the Mississippi.

"HIS TEARS DRIPPED UPON THE LANTERN." From Life on the Mississippi.

"HOLD ME!" CRIED THE DOCTOR. From Dialect Tales.

"HOLD UP YOUR FOOT." From Life on the Mississippi.

"HONEY, YER AIN'T HARF AS SMART AS YER THINKS YER IS!" From Dialect Tales.

"HURLED ME ACROSS THE HOUSE." From Life on the Mississippi.

"'I'D LIKE TO ESTIMATE EXACTLY HOW MANY TIMES'" From In Simpkinsville: Character Tales.

I AM ANXIOUS ABOUT THE TIME. From Life on the Mississippi.

"I HIT BROWN A GOOD HONEST BLOW." From Life on the Mississippi.

"I rolled up my shirt sleeves--which it was a tolluble warm day, and my koat was off--and ses I, you see that hoss yonder." From Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor with a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley.

I SHOT HIM THROUGH THE HEAD. From Life on the Mississippi.

"IF YOU LOVE ME, BACK HER." From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

"INSENSIBLY THEY DREW TOGETHER." From Life on the Mississippi.

THE INTERVIEW. From Life on the Mississippi.

"THIS IS NINE-MILE POINT." From Life on the Mississippi.

"IT WUZ ANNIKY'S TEEF." From Dialect Tales.

"JACK APPLE STEPPED IN, AN OPEN CLASP- KNIFE IN ONE HAND." From Dialect Tales.

A JUSTIFIABLE ADVANCE. From Life on the Mississippi.

"Katie, pretty Katie, kiss me." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"I KILLED BROWN EVERY NIGHT." From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

"The kingdom's princeliest youth besiege her ear." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"KIT KUNCKER," "FIDLER BILL," AND THE DOG "ANDY." From Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor with a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley.

THE LAND OF FULL "GOATEES." From Life on the Mississippi.

THE LECTURER. From Life on the Mississippi.

"LET A LEADSMAN CRY, 'HALF TWAIN.' " From Life on the Mississippi.

"LOADING AND FIRING." From Life on the Mississippi.

"LOOK HERE, HAVE YOU GOT THAT DRINK YET?" From Life on the Mississippi.

A MAN CAME IN SIGHT. From Life on the Mississippi.

"MARS' TOM SAY HE DONE GIN OUT DE NOTION." From Dialect Tales.

MAST AND ALL WENT OVERBOARD From To Have and to Hold.

MIGHTY WARM TIMES. From Life on the Mississippi.

Mike Fink's Great Shot. From The Hive of "The Bee-Hunter," A Repository of Sketches, Including Peculiar American Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports.

"A MINUTE LATER." From Life on the Mississippi.

MORELAND ENTERING NANCY'S COTTAGE. [Second Frontispiece Image] From The Planter's Northern Bride.

MOSQUITOES. From Life on the Mississippi.

MR. AND MRS. MORELAND AND ALBERT. [First Frontispiece Image] From The Planter's Northern Bride.

MR. B. STEPPED INTO VIEW. From Life on the Mississippi.

MR. BRAINARD AND EULALIA. From The Planter's Northern Bride.

MR. HASTINGS AND THE MINISTER. From The Planter's Northern Bride.

"Mr. Suggs," said he, "I'd like to have an interest in your contract, and I m willing to pay for it; I'll find the money to pay the Indian." From Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor with a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley.

"MRS. MANNING STUMBLED FORWARD" From An Elephant's Track and Other Stories.

"Mrs. Naron flew at the child with an energy that contrasted strongly with her oleaginous appearance; and seizing him by the middle, held him up inverted with one hand." From Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor with a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley.

"My fire is my friend."—Page 27. [Frontispiece Image] From Colonel Carter of Cartersville.

MY PROMENADE. From Life on the Mississippi.

"My thoughts are wandering on the verge of dreams, . . . While lower, feebler, flit the fireside gleams." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"MY, WHAT A RACE I 'VE HAD!" From Life on the Mississippi.

[The Nervous Man] From Colonel Carter of Cartersville.

"NO, YOU DON'T, JACK BODDY!" From Dialect Tales.

"NOBODY THERE." From Life on the Mississippi.

" 'NONE O' YO' SHOOTIN',' SAID SINCERITY." From Dialect Tales.

"Now, Mars Walter," replied Thomas, reprovingly. From The Rivals: A Chickahominy Story.

"O'er all the fragrant land this harvest day, What bounteous sheaves are garnered, ear and blade." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"OH, I KNEW him." From Life on the Mississippi.

OLD BURN'S BULL RIDE. "He jist cum in atwixt his hine legs, an' burried head, an' hon's thar onder a full run, a histen socks starn full two foot, clar of the yeath, an' right then his tail come down with a swish." Page 100. From Sut Lovingood. Yarns Spun by a "Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool." Warped and Wove for Public Wear.

AN OLD-FASHIONED BREAK-DOWN. From Life on the Mississippi.

ON THE RIGHT TRACK. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE ORATOR OF THE SCOW. From Life on the Mississippi.

"Our Nelly clasped his neck and whispered: 'Please, Won't you be good, sir? For I like you so.' " From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"OVER SHE GOES." From Life on the Mississippi.

OVER THE BREASTBOARD. From Life on the Mississippi.

Paul Hamilton Hayne. [Frontispiece Image] From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"THE PHANTOM ASSUMED THE WHEEL." From Life on the Mississippi.

PILOT BROWN From Life on the Mississippi.

"POSTING HIS REPORT." From Life on the Mississippi.

"PULL HER DOWN!" From Life on the Mississippi.

"THE RACKET HAD BROUGHT EVERYBODY TO THE DECK." From Life on the Mississippi.

"'Read yourself—this once,' he pleaded, 'and let me listen.'" See page 435 [Frontispiece Image] From The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields.

REPAIRING DAMAGES. From Dialect Tales.

"RESURRECTED PILOTS." From Life on the Mississippi.

"RIVER INSPECTORS." From Life on the Mississippi.

THE SCHOOLMASTER ABROAD. p. 98. From The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi. A Series of Sketches.

A SCIENTIST. From Life on the Mississippi.

SELLER'S MONUMENT. From Life on the Mississippi.

SELLING THE NEGRO. From Life on the Mississippi.

"SET HER BACK." From Life on the Mississippi.

A SHORT STOUT BAG. From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

SHOWING THE BELLS. From Life on the Mississippi.

[Frontispiece Image] From Poems of Sidney Lanier, Edited by his Wife.

The slave-trader Walker and the author driving a gang of slaves to the southern market. From Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave. Written by Himself.

"SMELL THEM, TASTE THEM." From Life on the Mississippi.

[Fitz] From Colonel Carter of Cartersville.

SMOKE AND GOSSIP. From Life on the Mississippi.

"SO FULL OF LAUGH." From Life on the Mississippi.

"SO YOU HAVE BEEN FIGHTING." From Life on the Mississippi.

A SOUL-MOVING VILLAIN. From Life on the Mississippi.

STAGE-STRUCK. From Life on the Mississippi.

"STAND BY, NOW!" From Life on the Mississippi.

"Stand!" said he, as the old lady was climbing the fence. From Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor with a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley.

STATION LOAFERS. From Life on the Mississippi.

"...stood, bareheaded, gazing over the broad field." From The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields.

SUBLIME IN PROFANITY. From Life on the Mississippi.

SUT LOVINGOOD'S DOG. "Jist as he got clost tu the carryall, the powder cotch fire, an' soon arterwards went off, an' so did he, head fust."Page158. From Sut Lovingood. Yarns Spun by a "Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool." Warped and Wove for Public Wear.

SUT LOVINGOOD'S DADDY ACTING HORSE. "He seem'd tu run jis adzactly es fas' es a ho'net cud fly, hit wer the titest race I ever seed, fur wun hoss to git all the whipin." Page 25. From Sut Lovingood. Yarns Spun by a "Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool." Warped and Wove for Public Wear.

SUT'S NEW-FANGLED SHIRT. "I hearn a n'ise tarin' a shingle ruff ofen a hous' at wun rake, an' felt like my bones wer all what lef the shut, an' reached the floor."Page34. From Sut Lovingood. Yarns Spun by a "Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool." Warped and Wove for Public Wear.

" 'Take dat f'um yo' equal--" From The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan.

"TAKE THAT ICE PITCHER." From Life on the Mississippi.

TALKING OVER THE SITUATION. From Life on the Mississippi.

"TELL ME WHERE IT IS--I 'LL FETCH IT!" From Life on the Mississippi.

"THAT 'S A REEF." From Life on the Mississippi.

THE BARKEEPER. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE BRAN DANCE. From Dialect Tales.

"THE CAPTAIN STORMED." From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

["Gentlemen, a true Southern lady"] From Colonel Carter of Cartersville.

[Mister Grocerman] From Colonel Carter of Cartersville.

THE COMMISSION DEALER. From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

" 'The Fiery Cross of old Scotland's hills!' " From The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan.

THE FIRE DROVE THE AXEMEN AWAY. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE HOSPITAL WARD. From Life on the Mississippi.

"THE PEDDLER COULD HARDLY KEEP BACK A SHOUT." From Dialect Tales.

"THE SIGN OF MEMBERSHIP." From Life on the Mississippi.

THE SPECTRE STEAMER. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE TRAGEDY. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE WOOD-YARD MAN. From Life on the Mississippi.

"Then holding it in the flame of the lamp," &c. From The Rivals: A Chickahominy Story.

"There cometh a dream of the past to me, On the desert sands by the autumn sea." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

THEY KEPT ON SHOOTING. From Life on the Mississippi.

THEY RUMMAGED THE CABIN. From Life on the Mississippi.

"THREW THE PREACHER OVERBOARD." From Life on the Mississippi.

[Title Page Image] From The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon's Sorrowful Account of His Fourteen Years Transportation, at Virginia, in America. In Six Parts. Being a Remarkable and Succinct History of the Life of James Revel, the Unhappy Sufferer Who Was Put Apprentice by His Father to a Tinman, Near Moorfields, Where He Got into Bad Company and Before Long Ran Away, and Went Robbing with a Gang of Thieves, But His Master Soon Got Him Back Again; Yet Would Not Be Be [sic] Kept from His Old Companions, But Went Thieving with Them Again, for Which He Was Transported Fourteen Years. With an Account of the Way the Transports Work, and the Punishment They Receive for Committing Any Fault. Concluding with a Word of Advice for All Young Men.

"Now," continued the old she savage, "them's the severest dogs in this country." Page 151. [1st Title Page Image] From Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor with a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley.

[Title Page Image] From The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields.

"To pass once more o'er Hampshire's mountain heights, . . . The fruitful farms, the enchanted vales, to view, And the coy mountain lakes' transcendent blue." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"TO POSE IN ABJECT PATIENCE AND AWKWARDNESS." From Balcony Stories.

TOM OWEN. From The Hive of "The Bee-Hunter," A Repository of Sketches, Including Peculiar American Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports.

"TRACT DISTRIBUTING." From Life on the Mississippi.

"TREATED WITH MARKED DEFERENCE." From Life on the Mississippi.

TURNING THE JACK. p. 129. From The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi. A Series of Sketches.

UNCLE MUMFORD. From Life on the Mississippi.

"VERY BRIEF AUTHORITY." From Life on the Mississippi.

"...waited for the oxen to reach the summit of the hill." From The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields.

"WALKING AWAY WITH A SHRUG OF THE SHOULDERS." From Balcony Stories.

WARMED UP INTO A QUARREL. From Life on the Mississippi.

"WAW TALK." From Life on the Mississippi.

WE BEGAN TO COOL OFF. From Life on the Mississippi.

WE READ ALOUD. From Life on the Mississippi.

"WE'LL BU'S' THE DO' OPEN" From The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line.

"WENT AROUND IN A CIRCLE." From Life on the Mississippi.

"WENT TO WHISTLING." From Life on the Mississippi.

["Who's that?"] From Colonel Carter of Cartersville.

"WHERE DID YOU SEE THAT FIGHT?" From Life on the Mississippi.

"WHERE IS MR. BIXBY?" From Life on the Mississippi.

"Where is that idiot, that dolt, that sluggard, that snail, with my mail?" From Balcony Stories.

[Frontispiece Image] "WHY DON'T YOU END IT?" (page 209) From To Have and to Hold.

A WORLD OF MISINFORMATION. From Life on the Mississippi.

"YELLOW-FACED MISERABLES." From Life on the Mississippi.

"YOU TAKE MY BOAT!" From Life on the Mississippi.

"YOU 'RE A SMART ONE." From Life on the Mississippi.