A story of the deep woods that shows the power of love at work among its primitive dwellers. It is a tensely moving study of the human heart and its aspirations that unfolds itself through thrilling situations and dramatic developments.
JOHN FOX, JR"S.
STORIES OF THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAINS
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_THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE._ Ill.u.s.trated by F. C. Yohn.
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The "lonesome pine" from which the story takes its name was a tall tree that stood in solitary splendor on a mountain top. The fame of the pine lured a young engineer through Kentucky to catch the trail, and when he finally climbed to its shelter he found not only the pine but the _footprints of a girl_. And the girl proved to be lovely, piquant, and the trail of these girlish footprints led the young engineer a madder chase than "the trail of the lonesome pine."
_THE LITTLE SHEPHERD OF KINGDOM COME._ Ill.u.s.trated by F. C. Yohn.
This is a story of Kentucky, in a settlement known as "Kingdom Come." It is a life rude, semi-barbarous; but natural and honest, from which often springs the flower of civilization.
"Chad" the "little shepherd" did not know who he was nor whence he came--he had just wandered from door to door since early childhood, seeking shelter with kindly mountaineers who gladly fathered and mothered this waif about whom there was such a mystery--a charming waif, by the way, who could play the banjo better that anyone else in the mountains.
_A KNIGHT OF THE c.u.mBERLAND._ Ill.u.s.trated by F. C. Yohn.
The scenes are laid along the waters of the c.u.mberland the lair of moonshiner and feudsman. The knight is a moonshiner"s son, and the heroine a beautiful girl perversely christened "The Blight." Two impetuous young Southerners" fall under the spell of "The Blight"s" charms and she learns what a large part jealousy and pistols have in the love making of the mountaineers.
Included in this volume is "h.e.l.l fer-Sartain" and other stories, some of Mr. Fox"s most entertaining c.u.mberland valley narratives.
MYRTLE REED"S NOVELS
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_LAVENDER AND OLD LACE._
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A charming story of a quaint corner of New England where bygone romance finds a modern parallel. The story centers round the coming of love to the young people on the staff of a newspaper--and it is one of the prettiest, sweetest and quaintest of old fashioned love stories, * * * a rare book, exquisite in spirit and conception, full of delicate fancy, of tenderness, of delightful humor and spontaniety.
_A SPINNER IN THE SUN._
Miss Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story in which poetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever and entertaining book. Her characters are delightful and she always displays a quaint humor of expression and a quiet feeling of pathos which give a touch of active realism to all her writings. In "A Spinner in the Sun" she tells an old-fashioned love story, of a veiled lady who lives in solitude and whose features her neighbors have never seen. There is a mystery at the heart of the book that throws over it the glamour of romance.
_THE MASTER"S VIOLIN,_
A love story in a musical atmosphere. A picturesque, old German virtuoso is the reverent possessor of a genuine "Cremona." He consents to take for his pupil a handsome youth who proves to have an apt.i.tude for technique, but not the soul of an artist. The youth has led the happy, careless life of a modern, well-to-do young American and he cannot, with his meagre past, express the love, the pa.s.sion and the tragedies of life and all its happy phases as can the master who has lived life in all its fulness. But a girl comes into his life--a beautiful bit of human driftwood that his aunt had taken into her heart and home, and through his pa.s.sionate love for her, he learns the lessons that life has to give--and his soul awakes.
Founded on a fact that all artists realize.