Flute and Violin
AND OTHER KENTUCKY TALES
AND ROMANCES. BY JAMES
LANE ALLEN. ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS
MDCCCXCVI.
Copyright, 1891, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.
FROM WHOSE FRAIL BODY HE DREW LIFE IN THE
BEGINNING, FROM WHOSE STRONG SPIRIT HE
WILL DRAW LIFE UNTIL THE CLOSE, THESE
TALES, WITH ALL OTHERS HAPLY HERE-
AFTER TO BE WRITTEN, ARE DEDI-
CATED AS A PERISHABLE MONU-
MENT OF INEFFABLE
REMEMBRANCE
PREFACE.
The opening tale of this collection is takenfrom Harper's Monthly; the others, from theCentury Magazine. By leave of these periodicalsthey are now published, and of the kindness thusshown the author makes grateful acknowledgment.
While the tales and sketches have been appearing,the authorship of them has now and thenbeen charged to Mr. James Lane Allen, of Chicago,Illinois—pardonably to his discomfiture.
A sense of fitness forbade that the author shouldsend along with each, as it came out, a claim thatit was not another's; but he now gladly asks thatthe responsibility of all his work be placed whereit solely belongs.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| FLUTE AND VIOLIN | 3 |
| KING SOLOMON OF KENTUCKY | 65 |
| TWO GENTLEMEN OF KENTUCKY | 97 |
| THE WHITE COWL | 135 |
| SISTER DOLOROSA | 175 |
| POSTHUMOUS FAME | 281 |