[Illustration: Charleston has a stronger, deeper-rooted city entity than all the cities of the middle west rolled into one]
[Illustration: The interior is the oldest looking thing in the United States—Goose Creek Church]
[Illustration: A reminder of the Chicago River—Atlanta]
[Illustration: With the whole Metropolitan Orchestra playing dance music all night long]
[Illustration: The office buildings are city office buildings, and are sufficiently numerous to look very much at home]
[Illustration: The negro roof-garden, Odd Fellows’ Building, Atlanta]
[Illustration: I was never so conscious, as at the time of our visit to the Burge plantation, of the superlative soft sweetness of the spring]
[Illustration: The planters cease their work]
[Illustration: Birmingham—The thin veil of smoke from far-off iron furnaces softens the city’s serrated outlines]
[Illustration: Birmingham practices unremittingly the pestilential habit of “cutting in” at dances]
[Illustration: Gigantic movements and mutations, Niagara-like noises, great bursts of flame like fallen fragments from the sun]
[Illustration: A shaggy, unshaven, rawboned man, gray-haired and collarless, sat near the window and uttered convincing imitations of the sounds made by chickens, roosters, pigs, goats and crows]
[Illustration: Gaze upon the character called Daniel Voorhees Pike! Observe the manliness with which he thrusts his pink little hands deep in the pockets of his—or somebody’s—pantaloons!]
[Illustration: The houses were full of the suggestion of an easy-going home life and an informal hospitality. (Back yard of the former home of General Stephen D. Lee.)]
[Illustration: Her hands looked very white and small against his dark coat. He was gazing down at them, his features distorted by a shockingly sentimental smile]
[Illustration: 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]
[Illustration: Over the tenement roofs one catches sight of sundry other buildings of a more self-respecting character, and, far off, the cupola of Vicksburg’s old stone court house]
[Illustration: Vicksburg negroes. Whether drowsing in the sun, doing a little stroke of work, or sitting gabbling on the curbstone, they were upon the whole as cheerful and comical a lot of people as I ever saw]
[Illustration: In some of the boats negro fish-markets are conducted, advertised by large catfish dangling from posts and railing]
[Illustration: The old Klein house, standing amid lawns and old-fashioned gardens on the bluff overlooking the river]
[Illustration: Citizens go at midday to the square where they buy popcorn for the squirrels and pigeons—Memphis]