FOOTNOTE:
[41] By permission of J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia.
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS.
1848= ——.
Joel Chandler Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, and is a lawyer: but he has devoted much time of late years to literature, and is now one of the editors of the “Atlanta Constitution.”
Arkansas Industrial University, Fayetteville, Washington County, Ark.
His dialect stories of “Uncle Remus” are a faithful reproduction of the popular tales of the old negroes of South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama; for the negro dialect varies in the different States. Mr. Harris’ books have made these tales known in England.