Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
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_.
What is to be the future of the Blue-grass Region? When population becomes denser and the pressure is felt in every neighborhood, who will possess it? One seems to see in certai...
5. Part 5Mrs. Stowe has said, "There is nothing picturesque or beautiful in the family attachment of old servants, which is not to be found in countries where these servants are legally...
14. Part 14As I stood one day in this valley, which has already begun to put on the air of civilization, with its hotel and railway station and mills and pretty homesteads, I saw a sight w...
12. Part 12They have, as a rule, luxuriant hair. In some counties one is struck by the purity of the Saxon type, and their faces in early life are often handsome. But one hears that in cer...
13. Part 13But the time had to come when this wilderness would be approached on all sides, attacked, penetrated to the heart. Such wealth of resources could not be let alone or remain unus...
6. Part 6Undoubtedly, as seen now, the day is not more interesting by reason of the features it wears than for the sake of comparison with the others it has lost. A singular testimony to...
3. Part 3Enter the blue-grass region from what point you choose--and you may do this, so well traversed is it by railways--and you become sensitive to its influence. If you come from the...
4. Part 4Then come school-days and vacations during which, as Mrs. Stowe says, he may teach Uncle Tom to make his letters on a slate or expound to him the Scriptures. Then, too, come ear...
7. Part 7An interesting commentary on the social decorum of this period is furnished in the fact that for some twenty years after the institution of the fair no woman put her foot upon t...
2. Part 2Maize, pumpkins, and beans grow together in a field--a triple crop. Nature perfects them all, yet must do more. Scarce have the ploughs left the furrows before there springs up...
9. Part 9In the abbey it is this pervasive hush that falls like a leaden pall upon the stranger who has rushed in from the talking universe. Are these priests modern survivals of the rap...
10. Part 10The settlers made the mistake of supposing that the country lacked building-stone, so deep under the loam and verdure lay the whole foundation rock; but soon they discovered tha...
8. Part 8All at once his life broke in two when half spent. He ceased to hunt like the devil, to adore the flesh, to scandalize the world; and retiring to the ancient Abbey of La Trappe...
1. Part 1The 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 publishe...
15. Part 15No element of wealth or advantage of position seems lacking to make this place one of the controlling points of that vast commercial movement which is binding the North and the...