OLD STONE HOMESTEAD.

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THE BLUE-GRASS
REGION OF KENTUCKY
AND OTHER KENTUCKY ARTICLES
BY JAMES LANE ALLEN. ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS
M DCCC XCII

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Copyright, 1892, by Harper & Brothers.

All rights reserved.[iii]

PREFACE

The articles herein reprinted from Harper's and The Century magazinesrepresent work done at intervals during the period that the author waswriting the tales already published under the title of Flute andViolin.

It was his plan that with each descriptive article should go a shortstory dealing with the same subject, and this plan was in part wroughtout. Thus, with the article entitled "Uncle Tom at Home" goes the taleentitled "Two Gentlemen of Kentucky;" and with the article entitled "AHome of the Silent Brotherhood" goes the tale entitled "The White Cowl."In the same way, there were to be short stories severally dealing withthe other subjects embraced in this volume. But having in part wroughtout this plan, the author has let it rest—not finally, perhaps,but because in the mean time he has found himself engaged with otherthemes.[iv]
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JAMES LANE ALLEN

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CONTENTS