“ In 1900 he was appointed professor of English literature in Columbia University. He founded the Sewanee Review in 1892, and edited it until 1900. He contributed articles in American literature to The New International Encyclopædia, and published the following works: English Culture in Virginia (1889) ; William Gilmore Simms (1892) ; Southern Statesmen of the Old Régime (1896) ; The Authority of Criticism (1899) ; Robert E. Lee (1899) ; Verses (1899) ; John Milton (1899) ; War and Civilization (1901) ”