LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
[Transcriber's Note: Illustrations were interleaved between pages in the original text. In this version, they have been moved beside the relevant section of the text. Page numbers below reflect the position of the illustration in the original text but links link to current position of illustrations.]
FACING PAGE
Charleston is the last stronghold of a unified American upper class; the last remaining American city in which Madeira and Port and noblesse oblige are fully and widely understood, and are employed according to the best traditionsFrontispiece
"Railroad tickets!" said the baggageman with exaggerated patience8
Can most travellers, I wonder, enjoy as I do a solitary walk, by night, through the mysterious streets of a strange city?17
Coming out of my slumber with the curious and unpleasant sense of being stared at, I found his eyes fixed upon me24
Mount Vernon Place is the centre of Baltimore32
If she is shopping for a dinner party, she may order the costly and aristocratic diamond-back terrapin, sacred in Baltimore as is the Sacred Cod in Boston48
Doughoregan Manor—the house was a buff-colored brick65
I began to realize that there was no one coming80
Harper's Ferry is an entrancing old town; a drowsy place piled up beautifully yet carelessly upon terraced roads clinging to steep hillsides100
"What's the matter with him?" I asked, stopping117
When I came down, dressed for riding, my companion was making a drawing; the four young ladies were with him, none of them in riding habits124
Claymont Court is one of the old Washington houses132
Chatham, the old Fitzhugh house, now the residence of Mark Sullivan148
Monticello stands on a lofty hilltop, with vistas, between trees of neighboring valleys, hills, and mountains157
Like Venice, the University of Virginia should first be seen by moonlight168
One party was stationed on the top of an old-time mail-coach, bearing the significant initials "F. F. V."180
The Piedmont Hunt Race Meet189
The Southern negro is the world's peasant supreme200
The Country Club of Virginia, out to the west of Richmond216
Judge Crutchfield228
Negro women squatting upon boxes in old shadowy lofts stem the tobacco leaves237
The Judge: "What did he do, Mandy?"244
Some genuine old-time New York ferryboats help to complete the illusion that Norfolk is New York253
"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 it300
Opposite St. Philip's, a perfect example of the rude architecture of an old French village305
In the doorway and gates of the Smyth house, in Legaré Street, I was struck with a Venetian suggestion316
Nor is the Charleston background a mere arras of recollection320
Charleston has a stronger, deeper-rooted city entity than all the cities of the Middle West rolled into one328
The interior is the oldest looking thing in the United States—Goose Creek Church344
A reminder of the Chicago River—Atlanta353
With the whole Metropolitan Orchestra playing dance music all night long368
The office buildings are city office buildings, and are sufficiently numerous to look very much at home376
The negro roof-garden, Odd Fellows' Building, Atlanta385
I was never so conscious, as at the time of our visit to the Burge Plantation, of the superlative soft sweetness of the spring396
The planters cease their work400
Birmingham—the thin veil of smoke from far-off iron furnaces softens the city's serrated outlines408
Birmingham practices unremittingly the pestilential habit of "cutting in" at dances424
Gigantic movements and mutations, Niagara-like noises, great bursts of flame like falling fragments from the sun437
A shaggy, unshaven, rawboned man, gray-haired and collarless, sat near the window444
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 hospitality465
Her hands looked very white and small against his dark coat480
As water flows down the hills of Vicksburg to the river, so the visitor's thoughts flow down to the great spectacular, mischievous, dominating stream485
Over the tenement roofs one catches sight of sundry other buildings of a more self-respecting character492
Vicksburg negroes497
On some of the boats negro fish-markets are conducted504
The old Klein house512
Citizens go at midday to the square520
Hanging in the air above the middle of the stream536
These small parks give Savannah the quality which differentiates it from all other American cities556
The Thomas house, in Franklin Square561
You will see them having tea, and dancing under the palm fronds of the cocoanut grove576
Cocktail hour at The Breakers581
Nowhere is the sand more like a deep warm dust of yellow gold588
The couples on the platform were "ragging"600
Harness held together by that especial Providence which watches over negro mending613
It was a very jolly fair616
The mysterious old Absinthe House, founded 1799620
St. Anthony's Garden632
Courtyard of the old Orleans Hotel641
The little lady who sits behind the desk656
The lights are always lowered at Antoine's when the spectacular Café Boulot Diabolique is served664
Passing between the brilliantly illuminated buildings, the Mardi Gras parades are glorious sights for children from eight to eighty years of age672