James N. Baskett[1]
"I 'oves 'oo Best, 'Tause 'oo Beat 'em All"[2]
James Lane Allen[4]
King Solomon of Kentucky: an Address[9]
The Last Christmas Tree[13]
Nancy Huston Banks[17]
Anvil Rock[18]
The Old Fashioned Fiddlers[19]
William B. Smith[20]
A Southern View of the Negro Problem[22]
The Merman and the Seraph[24]
Anderson C. Quisenberry[27]
The Death of Crittenden[27]
Robert Burns Wilson[29]
Lovingly to Elizabeth, My Mother[32]
When Evening Cometh On[32]
Daniel Henry Holmes[36]
Bell Horses[39]
My Lady's Garden[40]
Little Blue Betty[42]
The Old Woman Under the Hill[44]
Margery Daw[45]
William H. Woods[47]
Sycamores[48]
Andrew W. Kelley[49]
The Old Scissors' Soliloquy[50]
Late News[52]
Young E. Allison[53]
On Board the Derelict[54]
Hester Higbee Geppert[57]
The Gardener and the Girl[58]
Henry C. Wood[60]
The Weaver[61]
William E. Connelley[63]
Kansas History[65]
Charles T. Dazey[67]
The Famous Knot-Hole[70]
John P. Fruit[72]
The Climax of Poe's Poetry[72]
Harrison Robertson[74]
Two Triolets[75]
Story of the Gate[75]
Ingram Crockett[77]
Audubon[78]
The Longing[79]
Dearest[80]
Eliza Calvert Obenchain[81]
"Sweet Day of Rest"[82]
Kate Slaughter McKinney[85]
A Little Face[85]
Charles J. O'Malley[86]
Enceladus[88]
Noon in Kentucky[90]
Langdon Smith[91]
Evolution[92]
Will J. Lampton[98]
These Days[98]
Our Castles in the Air[99]
Champagne[100]
Mary Anderson de Navarro[101]
Lazy Louisville[102]
Mary R. S. Andrews[104]
The New Superintendent[106]
Elvira Miller Slaughter[110]
The South and Song[111]
Sundown Lane[113]
Joseph S. Cotter[115]
Negro Love Song[115]
Ethelbert D. Warfield[116]
Christopher Columbus[117]
Evelyn S. Barnett[119]
The Will[119]
John Patterson[123]
A Cluster of Grapes[124]
Choral Ode from Euripides[125]
William E. Barton[126]
A Weary Winter[128]
Benj. H. Ridgely[129]
A Kentucky Diplomat[131]
Zoe A. Norris[135]
The Cabaret Singer[137]
In a Moment of Weariness[138]
Lucy Cleaver McElroy[139]
Old Alec Hamilton[140]
Mary F. Leonard[142]
Goodby[143]
Joseph A. Altsheler[144]
The Call of the Drum[146]
Oscar W. Underwood[150]
The Protection of Profits[151]
Elizabeth Robins[156]
A Promising Playwright[158]
Ellen Churchill Semple[162]
Man a Product of the Earth's Surface[163]
Annie Fellows Johnston[165]
The Magic Kettle[167]
Eva A. Madden[170]
The End of "The I Can School"[170]
John Fox, Jr.[172]
The Christmas Tree on Pigeon[176]
Fannie C. Macaulay[181]
Approaching Japan[183]
James D. Bruner[184]
The French Classical Drama[185]
Madison Cawein[187]
Conclusion[191]
Indian Summer[192]
Home[193]
Love and a Day[193]
In a Shadow Garden[195]
Unrequited[196]
A Twilight Moth[196]
George Madden Martin[198]
Emmy Lou's Valentine[199]
Mary Addams Bayne[202]
The Coming of the Schoolmaster[203]
Elizabeth Cherry Waltz[205]
Pa Gladden and the Wandering Woman[207]
Reubena Hyde Walworth[209]
The Underground Palace of the Fairies[210]
Crittenden Marriott[211]
The Arrival of the Enemy[213]
Abbie Carter Goodloe[217]
A Countess of the West[218]
George Lee Burton[222]
After Prison—Home[223]
James Tandy Ellis[228]
Youthful Lovers[229]
George Horace Lorimer[230]
His Son's Sweetheart[232]
Sister Imelda[233]
A June Idyl[234]
Heart Memories[235]
A Nun's Prayer[235]
Harrison Conrad[236]
In Old Tucson[236]
A Kentucky Sunrise[237]
A Kentucky Sunset[237]
Alice Hegan Rice[238]
The Oppressed Mr. Opp Decides[239]
Richard H. Wilson[244]
Susan—Venus of Cadiz[245]
Lucy Furman[247]
A Mountain Coquette[249]
Bert Finck[254]
Behind the Scenes[254]
Olive Tilford Dargan[255]
Near the Cottage in Greenot Woods[258]
Harry L. Marriner[262]
When Mother Cuts His Hair[263]
Sir Gumshoo[264]
Lucien V. Rule[265]
What Right Hast Thou?[265]
The New Knighthood[266]
Eva Wilder Brodhead[267]
The Rivals[269]
Cordia Greer Petrie[273]
Angeline Jines the Choir[274]
Maria Thompson Daviess[279]
Mrs. Molly Moralizes[281]
Cale Young Rice[284]
Petrarca and Sancia[285]
Robert M. McElroy[289]
George Rogers Clark[290]
Edwin D. Schoonmaker[293]
The Philanthropist[294]
Credo Harris[295]
Bologna[295]
Hallie Erminie Rives[297]
The Bishop Speaks[298]
Edwin Carlile Litsey[301]
The Race of the Swift[301]
Milton Bronner[303]
Mr. Hewlett's Women[304]
A. S. Mackenzie[305]
A Keltic Tale[306]
Laura Spencer Portor[308]
The Little Christ[309]
But One Leads South[310]
Leigh Gordon Giltner[311]
The Jesting Gods[311]
Margaret S. Anderson[318]
The Prayer of the Weak[318]
Not This World[319]
Whistler[320]
Abby Meguire Roach[320]
Unremembering June[321]
Irvin S. Cobb[323]
The Belled Buzzard[324]
Isaac F. Marcosson[343]
The Wagon Circus[344]
Gertrude King Tufts[345]
Shipwrecked[346]
Charles Hanson Towne[350]
Spring[351]
Slow Parting[351]
Of Death[352]
William E. Walling[353]
Russia and America[354]
Thompson Buchanan[355]
The Wife Who Didn't Give Up[358]
Will Levington Comfort[363]
An Actress's Heart[364]
Frank Waller Allen[366]
A Woman Answered[367]
Venita Seibert[368]
The Origin of Babies[369]
Charles Neville Buck[371]
The Doctrine According to Jonesy[373]
George Bingham[375]
Hogwallow News[377]
Mabel Porter Pitts[379]
On the Little Sandy[379]
Marion Forster Gilmore[380]
The Cradle Song[381]
Appendix[383]
Mrs. Agnes B. Mitchell[385]
When the Cows Come Home[385]

[KENTUCKY IN AMERICAN LETTERS]

[JAMES NEWTON BASKETT]

James Newton Baskett, novelist and scientist, was born near Carlisle, Kentucky, November 1, 1849. He was taken to Missouri in early life by his parents. He was graduated from the University of Missouri in 1872, since which time he has devoted himself almost exclusively to fiction and to comparative vertebrate anatomy, with ornithology as his particular specialty. At the world's congress of ornithologists at the Columbian Exposition in 1893, Mr. Baskett presented a paper on Some Hints at the Kinship of Birds as Shown by Their Eggs, which won him the respect of scientists from many lands. He has published three scientific works and three novels: The Story of the Birds (New York, 1896); The Story of the Fishes (New York, 1899); The Story of the Amphibians and Reptiles (New York, 1902); and his novels: At You All's House (New York, 1898); As the Light Led (New York, 1900); and his most recent book, Sweet Brier and Thistledown (Boston, 1902). Of this trio of tales the first one, At You All's House, is the best and the best known, Mr. Baskett's masterpiece hitherto. For the Texas Historical Society he wrote, in 1907, a series of papers upon the Early Spanish Expedition in the South and Southwest. With the exception of three years spent in Colorado for the benefit of his health, Mr. Baskett has resided at Mexico, Missouri, since leaving Kentucky.

Bibliography. The Athenaeum (July 28, 1900); The Book Buyer (October, 1900); Library of Southern Literature (Atlanta, 1909, v. i).

"I 'OVES 'OO BEST, 'TAUS 'OO BEAT 'EM ALL"[1]