Kentucky -- Fiction; Older women -- Fiction; Widows -- Fiction
Aunt Jane closed her Bible and laid it on the mahogany centre-table.
"Half-past ten o'clock," she said, glancing at the clock in the
corner. "I sometimes think, honey, that I'd like to watch the old year
out once more, for there's somethin' about the night that the day
hasn't got. But I'm too old to lose sleep unless there's a good reason
for it, so cover up the fire and we'll sleep the old year out instead
o' watchin' it out. This night's no more'n any other night, and it's
jest as Parson Page said, every day's a New-year's day."
_By the author of "The Land of Long Ago."_
AUNT JANE OF KENTUCKY
_By_ ELIZA CALVERT HALL
Illustrated by Beulah Strong. 12mo. Cloth. $1.50
Aunt Jane is perfectly delightful.--_The Outlook_, New York.
A book that plays on the heart strings.--_St. Louis
Post-Despatch._
What Mrs. Gaskill did in "Cranford" this author does for
Kentucky.--_Syracuse Herald._
A prose idyl. Nothing more charming has appeared in recent
fiction.--MARGARET E. SANGSTER.
These pages have in them much of the stuff that makes genuine
literature.--_Louisville Courier Journal._
Where so many have made caricatures of old-time country folk,
Eliza Calvert Hall has caught at once the real charm, the real
spirit, the real people, and the real joy of living which was
theirs.--_New York Times._
Have you read that charming little book written by one of your
clever Kentucky women--"Aunt Jane of Kentucky"--by Eliza Calvert
Hall? It is very wholesome and attractive. Be sure that you read
it.--THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., PUBLISHERS
254 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON
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