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James Allen

A Kentucky CardinalJames Lane Allen A Kentucky Cardinal: A Story Dedication This to her from one who in childhood used to stand at the windows of her room and watch for the Cardinal among the snow-buried cedars.I All this New-year's Day of 1850 the sun shone cloudless but wrought no thaw. Even th...

The Choir InvisibleJames Lane Allen The Choir Invisible I "O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence. . .. . . feed pure love,Beget the smiles that have no cruelty,Be the sweet presence of a good diffusedAnd in diffusion evermore i...

Flute and Violin and other Kentucky Tales and RomancesFlute and Violin and other Kentucky Tales and Romances PREFACE The opening tale of this collection is taken from Harper's Monthly; the others, from the Century Magazine. By leave of these periodicals they are now published, and of the kindness...

The Blue-Grass Region of Kentucky, and Other Kentucky ArticlesJames Lane Allen The Blue-Grass Region of Kentucky, and Other Kentucky Articles PREFACE The articles herein reprinted from Harper's and The Century magazines represent work done at intervals during the period that the author was writin...

AftermathJames Lane Allen Aftermath / Part second of «A Kentucky Cardinal» Dedication This to her from one who in childhood used to stand at the windows of her room and watch for the Cardinal among the snow-buried cedars.I I was happily at work this morning among my butterbeans—a vegetable of sol...

The Last Christmas Tree: An Idyl of ImmortalityJames Lane Allen The Last Christmas Tree: An Idyl of Immortality THE LAST CHRISTMAS TREE LIFE on this earth, my children, means warmth. Do not forget that: whatever else it may be, life as we know it is warmth. Every living earthly thing is on fire a...

The Kentucky WarblerJames Lane Allen The Kentucky Warbler When the population of this immense WesternRepublic will have diffused itself over every acre ofground fit for the comfortable habitation of man,…then not a warbler shall flit through ourthickets, but its name, its notes, its habits will b...

The Doctor's Christmas EveThe Doctor's Christmas Eve PREFACE This work now published under the title of "The Doctor's Christmas Eve" is the one earlier announced for publication under the title of "A Brood of the Eagle.""The Doctor, Herbert and Elsie's father, our nearest neighbor, your closest f...

Sister Dolorosa, and Posthumous FameAllen James Lane Sister Dolorosa, and Posthumous Fame PREFACE TO BRITISH EDITIONThe Author is glad to know that a British Edition of his Kentucky Tales is to be brought out by Mr. David Douglas of Edinburgh.Generations ago his mother's ancestors came from Scotl...

The Bride of the MistletoeJames Lane Allen The Bride of the Mistletoe TO ONE WHO KNOWS Je crois que pour produire il ne faut pas trop raissoner. Mais il faut regarder beaucoup et songer à ce qu’on a vu. Voir: tout est là, et voir juste. J’entends, par voir juste, voir avec ses propres yeux et non...