BLADES O' BL UEGRASS.



   No idle rhymer of trifling verse, but a strong-voiced singer who
has walked with Nature and drawn his inspiration from her, his
observant eye mirrors the beauties of the world, and with pen and
brush he portrays them with the grace and truth of an artist.  

                 HENRY CLEVELAND WOOD
   Is a native Kentuckian, descended on his mother's side from the
Cleveland and Whitney families of New England. His paternal ances-
tors settled permanently in Kentucky before Daniel Boone built his
first cab)in here.
   Mr. Wood's first literary venture was a sketch written at the age of
twelve years and contributed to Appleton's Journal, for which he re-
ceived compensation. This success, doubtless, gave him more exquis-
ite joy than any he has since achieved. In 1874 he began contributing
to the English magazines, and from that time has frequently appeared
in The Quiver, Good Words, and other periodicals. In this country he
has contributed to The Aldine, The Cosmopolitan, The Current, Bel-
ford's, Our Continent, Youth's Companion, Literary Life, Demorest,
Peterson, Once a Week, Harper's Weekly, and many other of the lead-
ing publications.
  Mr. Wood has very great artistic and musical talent. He draws
freely, paints, and executes various designs in wood carving, his own
home being handsomely decorated by himself. He is yet unmarried,
and devoted to his venerable grandmother and mother who live with
him at Harrodsburg.                                      
                    MISS JEAN WRIGHT.
  The father of Miss Jean Wright is General J. M. Wright, a graduate
of West Point, a brilliant young officer in the Civil War, member of the
Kentucky Legislature, Adjutant-General of Kentucky, and now Mar-
shal of the United States Supreme Court. Her mother is the daughter
of Dr. Ewing, and a niece of General William 0. Butler, one of Ken-
tucky's early soldier-poets. A native of Louisville, Miss Wright has
inherited talent and literary taste. Her first offering is a delicious
little volume of poems published in 1892, and charmingly illustrated
by her young cousin, Emma Keats Speed.



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