By MELVILLE DAVISSON POST How would Christ act if He appeared in the world today? Through Mr. Post’s story of the Kentucky mountains runs an impressive allegory. =ABBÉ PIERRE= By JAY WILLIAM HUDSON This charming novel of life in quaint Gascony has proved that a novel that is a work of true literary art may be a best seller of the widest popularity. D. APPLETON AND COMPANY New York London TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. Emboldened text is surrounded by equals signs: =bold=. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized. Archaic or variant spelling has been retained.