Fiction writers have recorded the events and social order

Fiction writers have recorded the events and social order well, but there is no "War and Peace" type book about the South and its army The only thing that compares with it in any way. is "Gone With the Wind." and tins in "physical size" only, lie said Dr. Francis R. Simkins. Longwood bis'o'-v professor, stated at the morning lecture session, that Vir ginians have remained untarnished by outside ways and have main 1‘imd their originality and unique folk ways and culture. At the evening, and concluding lecture of the spring series. Dr. Gardner B Taplin. associate Eng lish pn fessor at Longwood. traced the opinions of Southern literary critics from 1834 until the Civil War, ns reported in the "Southern Liter ary Messenger." on such English writers as Bulwer-Lytton. Dickens, Thackery. Tennyso n, and the Brownings. Literary Need Dr. Rubin, speaking before the audience at Longwood Collegp on "The Image of an Army: The Con federate War in Southern Litera ture”, said that the social ideal has been stressed to such an extent in Southern literature that little atten tion has been paid to the war itself. "The war is not seen in them 'fic tional characters as an ordeal in itself, so much as the catastrophe that destroyed anti-bellum life." What is needed is a protagonist for whom "the war becomes a great personal experience of his life, t ansforming the individual so that the novelist shows a character de velop.:' in the time of stress. With out such a character, the image of < Continued on page 7;