"'The simple, rural key-note of life is still the sweetest,' he had written in the opening pages of _The Blue Grass Region of Kentucky_; and it is this note which, played on the pipes of Pan in ever-recurring and fresh variations, yields the sweetest music, and, touched with the breath of his passion for nature, is transmuted into those 'invisible flowers of sound' which lie pressed between his pages."--_The Bookman._ _Cloth, 12mo, illustrated, $1.50_ Flute and Violin and other Kentucky Tales and Romances "He takes us into a green and fragrant world in that Kentucky home of his which he has shared with us so genially and delightfully before now. No one has made more of a native region than he--more beauty and more attractiveness. He has done for the blue grass country what Miss Wilkins has done for New England, what Hamlin Garland has done for some parts of the West."--_Boston Transcript._ _Cloth, 12mo, illustrated, $1.50_ A Kentucky Cardinal "A narrative, told with naive simplicity in the first person, of how a man who was devoted to his fruits and flowers and birds came to fall in love with a fair neighbor who treated him at first with whimsical raillery and coquetry, and who finally put his love to the supreme test."--_New York Tribune._ _Cloth, 12mo, illustrated, $1.00_ Aftermath A Sequel to "A Kentucky Cardinal" "The perfect simplicity of all the episodes, the gentleness of spirit, and the old-time courtesy, the poetry of it all, with a gleam of humor on almost every page."--_Life._ _Cloth, 12mo, illustrated, $1.00_ A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath _In one volume. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. $2.50_ Two Gentlemen of Kentucky _Fifty cents_ PUBLISHED BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Sixty-four and Sixty-six Fifth Avenue, New York Transcriber Notes: Passages in italics were indicated by _underscores_. Passages in bold were indicated by =equal signs=. Small caps were replaced with ALL CAPS. Throughout the document, the oe ligature was replaced with "oe". Throughout the dialogues, there were words used to mimic accents of the speakers. Those words were retained as-is. Errors in punctuation and inconsistent hyphenation were not corrected unless otherwise noted. On page 114, "for the inhabitants" was replaced with "For the inhabitants". On page 241, "who's" was replaced with "whose". End of Project Gutenberg's The Doctor's Christmas Eve, by James Lane Allen