Uncle Billy in Page’s story “Meh Lady” is a distinct creation. At the wedding of his mistress and the Union captain in the old, dismantled home, the minister asks, “Who giveth this woman to be married to this man?” His lady is without a relative, and Uncle Billy sees that it is up to him. But he doesn’t want to take the responsibility; so stepping forward he answers solemnly, “Gord.”
Thomas Nelson Page is never sectional in his writing. Everything that he writes tends to bring about better feeling between the North and the South.
He is now ambassador to Rome, appointed by President Wilson.
JAMES LANE ALLEN
James Lane Allen, a romanticist of Kentucky, is the subject of one of the six intaglio-gravure pictures illustrating “American Novelists.”
JAMES LANE ALLEN
Monograph Number Four in The Mentor Reading Course
A historical novelist worthy to rank with Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Lane Allen has been called. Both have given us pictures of the lives of our forefathers; but, while Hawthorne has shown us New England, Allen draws the Blue Grass region of Kentucky and its people.