Chapter II: The South

ALABAMA

_Alabama Sketches_, Samuel Minturn Peck. _Polished Ebony_, Octavius R. Cohen.

ARKANSAS

_Otto the Knight_; _Knitters in the Sun_, Octave Thanet.

FLORIDA

_Rodman the Keeper_, Constance F. Woolson.

GEORGIA

_Georgia Scenes_, A. B. Longstreet. _Free Joe_; _Tales of the Home-Folks_, Joel Chandler Harris. _Stories of the Cherokee Hills_, Maurice Thompson. _Northern Georgia Sketches_, Will N. Harben. _His Defence_, Harry Stilwell Edwards. _Mr. Absalom Billingslea_; _Mr. Billy Downes_, Richard Malcolm Johnston.

KENTUCKY

_Flute and Violin_; _A Kentucky Cardinal_, James Lane Allen. _In Happy Valley_, John Fox, Jr. _Back Home_; _Judge Priest and his People_, Irvin S. Cobb. _Land of Long Ago_; _Aunt Jane of Kentucky_, Eliza Calvert Hall.

LOUISIANA

_Holly and Pizen_; _Aunt Amity's Silver Wedding_, Ruth McEnery Stuart. _Balcony Stories_; _Tales of Time and Place_, Grace King. _Old Creole Days_; _Strange True Stories of Louisiana_, George W. Cable. _Bayou Folks_, Kate Chopin.

TENNESSEE

_In the Tennessee Mountains_; _Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains_,
Charles Egbert Craddock. (Mary N. Murfree.)

VIRGINIA

_In Ole Virginia_, Thomas Nelson Page. _Virginia of Virginia_, Amelie Rives. _Colonel Carter of Cartersville_, F. Hopkinson Smith.

NORTH CAROLINA

_North Carolina Sketches_, Mary N. Carter.