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LITERATURE
Allen, James Lane. Flute and Violin. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1891.
308 p. illus. Collection of Kentucky tales and romances.
Bird, Robert Montgomery. Nick of the Woods, or The Jibbenainosay. N.Y.,
Macy-Masius (Vanguard Press), 1928. 395 p. Reprint of a popular tale of
the Kentucky frontier first issued in 1837; edited by Mark Van Doren.
Cobb, Irvin S. Old Judge Priest. New York, George H. Doran Company,
1916. 401 p. (Murray Hill Library edition.) Stories about Old Judge Priest,
a homely, shrewd, lovable figure, typical of Kentucky and the Old South.
-—-—Kentucky. New York, George H. Doran Company, 1924. With illus.
by John T. McCutcheon. 62 p. (Cobb’s America Guyed Books.) Humorous
characterization of the State by Kentucky’s outstanding humorist.
Combs, J. H., ed. All That’s Kentucky. Louisville, J. P. Morton & Company,
1915. 285 p. index. First-rate anthology of poetry on Kentucky and its
lore.
Dickey, Fannie Porter. Blades o’ Blue Grass. Louisville, J. P. Morton & Com-
pany, 1892. 331 p. illus. Compilation of poems by Kentuckians with bio-
graphical sketches. "The Bivouac of the Dead" by Theodore O’Hara is
the most outstanding selection.
Fox, John,.Jr. Hell Fer Sartain. New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1904.
119 p. Describes a locality high up in the Cumberlands.
Furman, Lucy. Quare Women. Concord, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923. 219
p. Sympathetic portrayal of the mountain people of eastern Kentucky.
Mirth-provoking and penetrating.
Hall, Eliza Calvert. The Land of Long Ago. Boston, Little, Brown & Com-
pany, 1909. 285 p. illus. Homely short sketches of olden times in the rural
districts of the Pennyrile.
Hergesheirner, Joseph. The Limestone Tree. New York, Alfred A. Knopf,
1931. 386 p. Chronicle of an American family in Kentucky from the eight-
eenth to the nineteenth century.
Johnston, Annie Fellows. The Little Colonel Stories. Boston, Page Company,
1930. 559 p. illus. Contains "The Little Colonel," "The Giant Scissors,"
and "Two Little Knights of Kentucky"; depicts child life of a quarter-
century ago in the Pewee Valley neighborhood of Oldham County.
Knight, Grant C. James Lane Allen and the Genteel Tradition. Chapel Hill,
University of North Carolina Press, 1935. 313 p. front., bibliog., index.
Critical and biographical study.
Rice, Alice Hegan. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. New York, The Cen-
tury Company, 1901. 153 p. An epic of optimism.
Roberts, Elizabeth Madox. The Time of Man. New York, Viking Press, 1926.
328 p. Tells of the struggle of the Chessers, a family of the Kentucky ·
hills, to better their condition.
Stuart, Jesse. Head o’ W-Hollow. New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1936.
342 p. Nineteen stories about the mountain people of eastern Kentucky.
Townsend, J. W. Kentucky in American Letters: 1784-1912. Cedar Rapids,