. The delicacy and keenness of its satire are equal to anything within the range of my knowledge.-Pres. Anderson, Rochester University. The characters are real creations of romance, who will live alongside of Mrs. Stowes or Walter Scotts tili the times that gave them birth have been forgotten.-Advance, Chicago. Scarce1 anything in Action so powerful has pen written from a mereyy literary standpoint, as these books. Uncle o m d Cabins cannot compare with them in this respect.-SpringlleId Mass. Republican. FIGS AND THISTLES. 538 pages, with Garfield Frontispiece, Cloth, 1.50 Crowded with incident, populous with strong characters, rich in humor, and from the beginning to the end alive with interest. - Boston Commonwealth. It is, we think, evident that the hero of the book is JUES A. GARFIELD.-Atchzson Kan. Champion. A capitzl American story. Its characters are not from foreign courts or the estiiential dells of foreign cities. They are fresh fmrn the real lfie of the forest and prairie of the West.--Chicag Inter-Ocean. D AND OR THE SOUTH WITHOUT THE SHADOW BY ALBION W. TOURGEE, LL. D. 1 C LATE JUDGES UPERIORC OURT, NORTH CAROLINA. A UTHOR O F NEW YORK FORDS, HOWARD, HULBERT TO WIxe gcw , 810ntk cj THAT IS TO BE WHEN THE FIRE OF SELF-SACRIFICE SHALL HAVE BURNED AWAY THE IIROSS OF THE PAST AND LEFT ONLY ITS a2d, THIS BOOK IS EARNESTLY AND HOPEFULLY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR. CONTENTS. JOHN EAX. CHAPTER PAGE I. UNDER DURESS, 9 11. A PROUD FAMILY, . . . 20 111. THE CEDARS, 29 IV. THE FRESHET, . . . 39 V. A BETROTHAL, 54 VI. MOTHER A KD SON, . . 60 VII. MOVEMENT, . 76 VIII. LOVER, OR FRIEND . . 86 IX. BROUGH T T O A FOCUS, . 95 X. A TROUBLENDI GHT, . . 109 XI. ESCAPE, . 117 XII. SOLUTION, . . . . . 126 I. BIRDS OF PARADISE, . . . I47 11. PAUL AND I, . . 152 111. H A WORD IN SEASON-HOW GOOD IT IS . 161 IV. PRE-ADAMITE, . . . . . . 171 V. THE MINSTREBLO Y TO THE WARS H AS GONE, 181 VI. POORTITHPSO RTIONC AULD, . 190 CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE VII. NORTHERNL IGHTS, . . . 205 VIII. THE WHITE WOODS, . . 216 IX. WIZARDRY, . 227 X. THE DELUGE, 23 5 XI. AN OLIVE BRANCH, . 239 XII. NOTA BENE, . . 244 XIII. As CHRIST LOVED US, . 248 XIV. SCIENCE A ND ART, 258 XV. THE KEYSTONE, . 264 XVI. THIS IKDENTURWE ITNESSETH, . 268 XVII. MOUND-BUILDER TO S THE RESCUE, , . 272 XVIII. WHERE IS THE WAY WHERE LIGHT DWELLETII 281 XIX. THE PLACE OF SAPPHIRES, . . . . 287 PREFACE. H E two stories . that compose this volume are printed in this form because I love them. Almost a decade has passed since they were written. I feel old while I read the proofs, as if lookiilg upon a swift-grown child. I have not changed them-I could not. To me they are parts of a great panorama which I tried to paint with the whole vast scene outspread before me. To change a part would mar the harmony of the whole. I was first impelled to attempt the field of romantic fiction by the weird fascinations of Southern life. Thrown while yet young and impressible into the very vortex of the Reconstruction Era, with the sound of the bugle yet in my ears, the breath of battle hardly blown away from the field of strife, with the shadow of Slavery passing slowly over the land on which it had rested so long and so heavily, I walked amid the strange incongruous elements around me, as one in a dream. The shadow was over all-the shadow of Slavery and of its children, Ignorance and War and Poverty. In the shadow I wrote, contrasting it with the light...