PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER, 1912

PRINTED BY J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS
PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A.




Transcriber's Note:

There is an inconsistency in the fifth paragraph of the Forword
where the author refers to Dr. Bagley's "The Old Fashioned
Gentleman," and the reference to Dr. Bagby's "The Old Virginia
Gentleman" in the chapter "Bacon and Greens".




FOREWORD.


The fires still glow upon the hearthstones to which our southern
writers in the olden days gave us friendly welcome. They are as bright
to-day as when, "four feet on the fender," we talked with some gifted
friend whose pen, dipped in the heart's blood of life, gave word to
thoughts which had flamed within us and sought vainly to escape the
walls of our being that they might go out to the world and fulfil their
mission. They who built the shrines before which we offer our devotion