Abstract

Special Correspondence

The article focuses on a resort in Virginia. It also discusses a book by author M. Ernest Renan. There are, perhaps, few better illustrations of the prevailing ignorance of the North about the South than the smallness of the numbers of those here who know anything of the part played by the Virginia Springs or White Sulphur Springs in the political and social life of "the States lately in rebellion." The attraction of these Springs to Southerners has been in times past, and is still, largely due to the fact that the South has, properly speaking, no other watering-places. The first accommodation at the Springs consisted of a circle of log-cabins with a dining-hall and ball-room in the center, and this constitutes the fundamental plan of a spring to this day. Author M. Ernest Renan has added a fifth volume to his book History of the Origins of Christianity. After the Life of Jesus, the Apostles, Saint Paul, the Antichrist, he give his readers Les Evangiles et la Seconde Generation Chretienne, and informs reader that as he could not exhaust the difficult subject of the authorship of the Gospels in one volume, the series will therefore include a sixth volume.