“The Southern statesman who serves his section best, serves his country best” 280

St. Philip’s is the more beautiful for the open space before it 300

Opposite St. Philip’s, a perfect example of the rude architecture of an old French village 305

In the doorway and gates of the Smyth house, in Legare Street, I was struck with a Venetian suggestion 316

Nor is the Charleston background a mere arras of recollection 320

Charleston has a stronger, deeper-rooted city entity than all the cities of the Middle West rolled into one 328

The interior is the oldest looking thing in the United States—­Goose Creek Church 344

A reminder of the Chicago River—­Atlanta 353

With the whole Metropolitan Orchestra playing dance music all night long 368

The office buildings are city office buildings, and are sufficiently numerous to look very much at home 376

The negro roof-garden, Odd Fellows’ Building, Atlanta 385

I was never so conscious, as at the time of our visit to the Burge Plantation, of the superlative soft sweetness of the spring 396

The planters cease their work 400

Birmingham—­the thin veil of smoke from far-off iron furnaces softens the city’s serrated outlines 408

Birmingham practices unremittingly the pestilential habit of “cutting in” at dances 424

Gigantic movements and mutations, Niagara-like noises, great bursts of flame like falling fragments from the sun 437

A shaggy, unshaven, rawboned man, gray-haired and collarless, sat near the window 444

Gaze upon the character called Daniel Voorhees Pike! 456

The houses were full of the suggestion of an easy-going home life and an informal hospitality 465

Her hands looked very white and small against his dark coat 480

As water flows down the hills of Vicksburg to the river, so the visitor’s thoughts flow down to the great spectacular, mischievous, dominating stream 485

Over the tenement roofs one catches sight of sundry other buildings of a more self-respecting character 492

Vicksburg negroes 497