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E. K. Means / Is This a Title? It Is Not. It Is the Name of a Writer of Negro Stories, Who Has Made Himself So Completely the Writer of Negro Stories That His Book Needs No Title

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A collection of comic and anecdotal short stories set in small Southern Black communities, the volume sketches colorful local characters and everyday episodes told in a rendered dialect. Individual pieces follow figures such as Figger Bush, Skeeter Butts, and Vinegar Atts through mishaps at saloons, churches, and town streets, mixing slapstick, wry observation, and moments of melancholy. The stories emphasize musicality, repartee, and folkwise philosophy while reflecting changes in postbellum village life; many episodes derive from local incidents and aim to preserve the speakers' cadence and point of view.

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Surely Miss Dell has never written anything more deserving of the title “best seller” than this absorbing story, which takes an elemental grip on the reader to an amazing degree.

The flirtation of a young girl, released for a brief time from the harsh restraint of an unlovely home, develops until it assumes overmastering proportions, and she is barely saved from herself by the steadfast loyalty, unspoken love, and great moral courage of the physically weak brother of her handsome, impulsive, and philandering lover. The scene is largely laid in Switzerland, and the ravishing beauty of that lovely land is painted with admirable skill.

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It is sunny with the spirit of the western country, the magnificent mountains, and the whole-hearted pioneers of to-day. It is a tale of failure and success, of love and youth and dramatic contrast, lit with humor and warm with the breath of life and actuality.

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Transcriber’s Note:

Obvious printer errors corrected silently.

Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation are as in the original.