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South Songs: From the Lays of Later Days (Classic Reprint)
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A book without a preface is like a salad without salt; but in offering the poems in this volume to the public, I can add little to what they speak for themselves.
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The Puritan's Daughter: Sequel to "Creole and Puritan"; A Character Romance of Two Sections (Classic Reprint)
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This is entirely true to the theme. It is so natural, so logical, so inevitable as to pass unchallenged by the acutest Southern sensibility. In his allegiance to his art Mr. De Leon sacrifices no part of his loyalty to his blood and birth. The moral of his writing is entirely just and Sound. But the fact remains - and it is this which is noteworthy - that our interest centers in a Northern rather than in a Southern group; and that. As for the author, we lose all trace of his identity.
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Passing under that symbol, the splendor ii'icreased' The. Richest of laces - the looms of the East.
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Crag-Nest: A Romance of the Days of Sheridan's Ride (Classic Reprint)
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The morning breeze from the front bore to them irregular thud of cannon; 'the morning sun gilded the dust they spurned behind them to Obscure - then and since - the distanced staff and guard in their rear.
Little Phil and big, black Rienzi were taking that Sheri dan's Ride, which has given motif for more picture, song, story and misstated history than any other single function of the war.
Saying this is no tittle of disparagement to the most noted and successful cavalry leader of the Union side; and I have little doubt that the sturdy and commonsensible - ii sometimes slightly profane - sabreur was as much amused as were many cooler think ers, at the wild acclaim over a feat which dwindles to nothingness, beside the straining test of a Confederate scout; indeed, of more than one of his own couriers.
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Thomas Cooper De Leon was an American poet, essayist, parodist, novelist, and playwright. He was in the Confederate army, and his observations of that period were recorded later in his books. His political writings recommended him favorably to Southern publicists. De Leon was also noted for his burlesque plays.
Background
Thomas Cooper De Leon was born on May 21, 1839 in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. He was the son of Mardici Heinrich and Rebecca (Lopez-y-Nunez) De Leon. The ancestors of both his parents came to this country from the Spanish West Indies before the Revolution. His father was a physician, an intimate friend of Thomas Cooper, president of the University of South Carolina, for whom he named the youngest of his three sons. Of the older sons, David Camden became surgeon-general of the Confederacy, and Edwin, an author and a diplomat in Egypt.
Education
Thomas Cooper was educated primarily in Washington at Rugby Academy and at Georgetown University; at the first, he was a fellow student of Henry Watterson, and at the second, of James Ryder Randall.
Career
From 1858 to 1861 he was in Washington as a clerk in the bureau of topographical engineers. He was in the Confederate army (1861-65), apparently always on duty at the capital, whether Montgomery or Richmond.
His experiences and observations during this period—social as well as political—were recorded later in his graphic and judicious if somewhat journalistic books, Four Years in Rebel Capitals (1890) and Belles Beaux and Brains of the 60’s (1907).
He was in Baltimore (1865 - 66) as editor of the Cosmopolite Magazine, and in New York (1866 - 67) as writer for various newspapers and magazines, and—to the scandal of his friends—as translator of French novels. His anthology, South Songs (1866), and his political writings under the name Dunne Browne recommended him favorably to Southern publicists, and in 1868, on the summons of John Forsyth, he removed to Mobile as managing editor, and after 1877 as editor, of the Mobile Register. He remained there for the rest of his life, incredibly tireless and versatile—as editor, printer, advocate of free-silver, theatre-manager, director of carnivals both North and South, and society-man agreeably tinged with Bohemianism.
In addition, he was a poet, essayist, parodist, novelist, and playwright—in whatever capacity, always keenly sensitive to the shifts of popular taste.
Although he was blind for the last eleven years of his life, he remained ceaselessly active.
Achievements
Aside from Leon's important books of war reminiscence, the most notable of his writings were perhaps his burlesque play, Hamlet ye Dismal Prince, produced in New York in 1870, and said to have been the first American play to run for 100 nights—his two “travesties, ” The Rock or the Rye (1888) parodying Amélie Rives, and Society as I have Foundered It (1890) parodying Ward McAllister—and his two local- color novels Creole and Puritan (1889) and Crag-Nest (1897).
