One lives to tell the tale.

The story of the escape of German prisoners of war who had been captured by the British, with the freighter "Java", and imprisoned in a South African camp; related by the sole survivor, Ludwig Ehlers, to Edmund Gilligan.

Tell it in Gath,

The tradition of New England ascendency.--The enigma of Puritanism.--Puritan culture.--Southern character and tradition.--The South and the civil war.--Poe, the artist.--Art and the nineteenth-century bourgeois.