All in all, a delightful and accomplished author and gentleman-at-large.
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JAMES LANE ALLEN.
JAMES LANE ALLEN
A few novelists know the world which renews its youth every spring and that dies every autumn, as intimately as Thoreau knew it. One of these novelists is Thomas Hardy, whose description of Egdon Heath in "The Return of the Native" has long been in use as a model in the English Department at Harvard. One of these also is James Lane Allen, the Kentucky schoolmaster.
The chapter entitled "Hemp" in "The Reign of Law," contains abundant evidence of this loving power. Here is a random choice: