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  THE BLUE-GRASS

  REGION OF KENTUCKY

  AND OTHER KENTUCKY ARTICLES

  BY JAMES LANE ALLEN. ILLUSTRATED

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  NEW YORK
  HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS
  M DCCC XCII




Copyright, 1892, by HARPER & BROTHERS.

_All rights reserved._




PREFACE


The articles herein reprinted from HARPER'S and _The Century_ magazines
represent work done at intervals during the period that the author was
writing the tales already published under the title of _Flute and
Violin_.

It was his plan that with each descriptive article should go a short
story dealing with the same subject, and this plan was in part wrought
out. Thus, with the article entitled "Uncle Tom at Home" goes the tale
entitled "Two Gentlemen of Kentucky;" and with the article entitled "A
Home of the Silent Brotherhood" goes the tale entitled "The White Cowl."
In the same way, there were to be short stories severally dealing with
the other subjects embraced in this volume. But having in part wrought
out this plan, the author has let it rest--not finally, perhaps, but
because in the mean time he has found himself engaged with other themes.

[Illustration: JAMES LANE ALLEN

  AUTHOR OF
  "THE KENTUCKY CARDINAL,"
  "THE CHOIR INVISIBLE,"
  "THE REIGN OF LAW," ETC.

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