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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: James Lane Allen: A Sketch of his Life and Work + +Author: Macmillan Company + +Release Date: June 27, 2008 [EBook #25915] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JAMES LANE ALLEN: A SKETCH *** + + + + +Produced by David Garcia and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Kentuckiana Digital Library) + + + + + + +James Lane Allen + +A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE AND WORK + + +WITH PORTRAIT + + +The Macmillan Company +66 Fifth Avenue, New York + +NEW YORK +THE MACMILLAN COMPANY +LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. + + + + +JAMES LANE ALLEN + +A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE AND WORK + + +While "_The Choir Invisible_" was primarily a love story, the setting +in which its action moved was historical. Apart from the masterly +handling of human passion and the harmony of thought and expression +with which he has treated the larger and deeper movements of life, it +is probably Mr. Allen's ability to picture forth the early settlement +of Kentucky that has given his writings so solid a foundation in the +literary affections of English speaking people. + +The fascination that "_The Choir Invisible_" has had for so many +thousands of readers is assuredly due as much to the author's faithful +historic treatment of the mighty stream of migration which had begun to +spread through the jagged channels of the Alleghanies over the then +unknown illimitable West as to his power to tell an absorbing story. +When "_The Choir Invisible_" appeared, this perhaps most fascinating +period of early American history had not been used as a background of +his story by any great master of fiction, and it requires no very keen +literary insight to discover the sources of the popularity which has +been accorded to the four or five recent novels, each of which has for +its setting a period in our history whose glamour has touched our +hearts and stirred our imaginations. + +Contemporary judgment is singularly unanimous in placing Mr. Allen in +the front rank of American novelists, and it may not be out of place +here to quote the opinions of two or three of the leading literary +critical journals. WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE, in the _Dial_ says that: + + "Looking about among our younger men of letters for the promise of + some new and vital impulse, it has for several years seemed to us + that such an impulse might be expected to come from the work of Mr. + James Lane Allen. He has published few books as yet, but the number + is sufficient to reveal a steadily increasing mastery of his art, + and the quality such as to warrant readers of discernment in + predicting for him a brilliant career and an assured place in the + front rank of American writers. _The Choir Invisible_ does not + disappoint these expectations. It is not only the most ambitious of + Mr. Allen's books, considered merely as to its sale, but it is also + the one in which he has carried to the highest pitch that fineness + of perception and that distinction of manner that have from the + first set his work apart from the work of nearly all of his + contemporaries. Hardly since Hawthorne have we had such pages as + the best of these; hardly since _The Scarlet Letter_ and _The + Marble Faun_ have we had fictive work so spiritual in essence and + adorned with such delicate and lovely embroiderings of the + imagination. There are descriptive passages so exquisitely wrought + that the reader lingers over them to make them a possession + forever; there are inner experiences so intensely realized that + they become a part of the life of his own soul."... + +And again writing in the _Boston Transcript_, Bliss Carman, says: + + "There are two chief reasons why Mr. Allen seems to me one of the + first of our novelists to day. He is most exquisitely alive to the + fine spirit of comedy. He has a prose style of wonderful beauty, + conscientiousness and simplicity.... He has the inexorable + conscience of the artist, he always gives us his best; and that + best is a style of great purity and felicity and sweetness, a style + without strain and yet with an enviable aptness for the sudden + inevitable word.... And yet that care, that deliberation is never + tedious." + +Hamilton W. Mabie is attracted more by the landscape beauty of Mr. +Allen's work, and he too makes an original contribution to our subject. +He says in _The Outlook_: + + "No American novelist has so imbedded his stories in Nature as has + James Lane Allen; and among English novels one recalls only Mr. + Hardy's three classics of pastoral England, and among French + novelists George Sand and Pierre Loti. Nature furnishes the + background of many charming American stories, and finds delicate or + effective remembrance in the hands of writers like Miss Jewett and + Miss Murfree; but in Mr. Allen's romances Nature is not behind the + action; she is involved in it. Her presence is everywhere; her + influence streams through the story; the deep and prodigal beauty + which she wears in rural Kentucky shines on every page; the + tremendous forces which sweep through her disclose their potency in + human passion and impulse. There was a fine note in Mr. Allen's + earliest work; a prelusive note with the quality of the flute.... + In _Summer in Arcady_ a deeper note in the treatment of Nature was + struck, and Mr. Allen's style took on, not only greater freedom, + but a richer beauty. The story is a kind of incarnation of the + tremendous vitality of Nature, the unconscious, unmoral sweep of + the force which makes for life. So completely enveloped is the + reader in the atmosphere of the opulent world about him, so deeply + does he realize the primeval forces rushing tumultuous through that + world, that at times the human figures seem as subordinate as those + in Corot's landscapes. And yet these human struggles are intensely + real, the human drama intensely genuine. Whatever may be thought of + the wisdom of presenting the sex problem so frankly, Mr. Allen's + sharpest critic must confess that in no other American book is + atmosphere so pervasive, so potential, so charged with passion and + beauty. + + In _The Choir Invisible_ a still deeper note is struck; the moral + insight, always clear, is more penetrating; the feeling for life is + at once more restrained and more passionate; the constructive skill + is more marked; the style surer and entirely moulded to its theme. + This story is so steeped in beauty, both of the world and of the + spirit, that it is not easy to write of it dispassionately. It has + a richness of texture which American fiction, as a rule, has + lacked; there are depths in it which American fiction has not, as + rule, brought to the consciousness of readers; depths of life below + the region of observation. There is in it the unconsciousness and + abandon which are the very substance of art, and which are so + constantly missed in the fiction of extreme sophistication." + +Our final opinion, that of James McArthur when he was editor of the +_Bookman_ carries some weight both on account of the position of the +writer and also by reason of his keen literary sense. + + "... Poetry, 'the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge,' + according to Wordsworth, the impassioned expression which is in the + countenance of all science'--that poetry irrespective of rhyme and + metrical arrangement which is as immortal as the heart of man, is + distinctive in Mr. Allen's work from the first written page. Like + Minerva issuing full-formed from the head of Jove, Mr. Allen issues + from his long years of silence and seclusion a perfect master of + his art--unfailing in its inspiration, unfaltering in its classic + accent.... So that when we arrive at _The Choir Invisible_ we find + there a ripeness of matured thought, an insight into the moral + depths of passion, and an entrance into the larger, deeper + movements of life, a realizing power, a broader sense of humor, as + well as humor itself, a concentrated and universal human interest; + all of which is not so much the result of finer art as of a greater + absorption of life, which comes not from more knowledge, but from + more wisdom. _The Choir Invisible_ is like an inward realization of + the 'Domain of Arnheim!' More than in his other books there rests + upon this work that unembarrassed calm, where truth sits Jove-like + 'on the quiet seat above the thunder,' where the spirit is + dignified, is priest-like, and inspired; where beauty dwells in a + harmony of thought and expression that subdues and haunts us. In + short, in _The Choir Invisible_ Mr. Allen has come to that stage of + quiet and eternal frenzy in which the beauty of holiness and the + holiness of beauty burn as one fire, shine as one light, which, as + Sidney Lanier has demonstrated, denotes the great artist. _The + Choir Invisible_ undeniably places its author among the foremost in + American letters. Indeed, we venture to say that it would be + difficult to recall any other novel since _The Scarlet Letter_ that + has touched the same note of greatness, or given to one section of + our national life, as Hawthorne's classic did to another, a voice + far beyond singing. + + A word, however, about Mr. Allen's _Summer in Arcady_ which + precedes this, and was published * * * subsequent to _A Kentucky + Cardinal_ and _Aftermath_. In these two books Nature was interwoven + benignantly with the human nature resting on her bosom, leading her + lover, Adam Moss, with gentle influences to the human lover, and + when bereft of human love, receiving him back into her healing + arms. Not so in _Summer in Arcady_; the sunlight that brooded in + calm over the forces of Nature that nursed Adam Moss's latent + powers of loving into domestic serenity, rouses the fierce claw and + tooth of Nature to drag Hilary and Daphne down to her level. As + clearly as the poet saw that, 'all's Love, yet all's Law' so + clearly is the same truth held in these stories with their + divergent ends. The lawlessness of Nature is the lawlessness of + man, untempered and ungoverned by that principle of chastity which + is the law of love; and again Nature, lawless in herself, becomes + beneficent, law-abiding, when controlled by that higher law of + instinct in man which is the seal and sign of the Divine upon his + soul. Without moralizing, a moral principle is at work in _Summer + in Arcady_; it is its vital distinction that over the whole action + reigns a moral simplicity which, like sunlight, licks up the + foetid, the exciting, sickening, uncertain torch-flames of passion. + And in order to point the way to a full justification of the + author's sincerity and moral purpose against the charge of + pandering to a decadent taste for the 'downwardtending' fiction of + the hour, it will be sufficient to show that the plea for the + Divine supremacy of goodness, and for an unfallen purity in man and + woman, has never been more strongly urged in modern fiction than in + _The Choir Invisible_. + + If in _Summer in Arcady_ there were readers who were troubled by + the heat lightning of passion that incessantly fluttered in its + bosom and threatened to bolt from the blue, their fears will be + laid to rest in the contemplation of Mr. Allen's new work which is + pervaded by an intense summer calm--the brooding calm of the + Country of the Spirit--but which does not preclude, rather is + reached through, the fierce fightings of human spirit for victory + over the evil passions of human nature--the fiercest struggle that + can rend asunder the human breast, that of holding fast the + integrity and purity of manhood and womanhood at any cost." + +As a historical novelist then, Mr. Allen has taken his rank with the +few men of whom Nathaniel Hawthorne is perhaps the most famous; and for +the same reason. Both have given us pictures of the lives of our +forefathers, whose faithfulness has assured them a position as classics +in American literature. True to the instinct of his genius Mr. Allen +has again chosen a stirring period in our history as a background for +his new novel "_The Reign of Law_" which THE MACMILLAN COMPANY publish. +Both the hero and heroine are products of a Revolution, and the scene +of the plot is situated in the Kentucky hemp fields. The Revolution on +the one hand was the social upheaval that our Civil War caused in the +South. While on the other hand it was the moral and intellectual +Revolution which followed the great discoveries in physical and social +science in the middle of this Century. + +The two chief characters of the story are a young man and a young +woman. The young man sprung from the lowest stratum of Southern +society, and the young woman from the highest. The story of the +intermingling of their lives must be left for the reader to discover. + +As was so often the case during the political reconstruction of the +South, the heroine passed from the sphere of the high social +organization which existed at her birth to the humblest and most +obscure hard manual work, while the hero rose from the lowest social +condition to the highest intellectual plane, finding his development +along the lines of religious and scientific thought. When they finally +meet, the latter half of the story shows their influences on each +other. + +The involved social and political conditions, the play and interaction +of phases of life, so utterly different as those which form the +experiences of these two people, have allowed Mr. Allen a wide scope +for the subtle analysis of character of which in his exquisitely +delicate art he is such a master. + +The trend of the book, and the religious crisis through which its hero +passes, give the story its title; while an important part in the +development of the hero's character is played by his passionate love +story. + +A well known critic affirms that the story contains by far the finest +and noblest work Mr. Allen has yet done, both in respect of that human +passion and interest which characterizes his former work, and also in +the tender reverential feeling with which he dwells on the simple rural +life of the Kentucky which he loves so well. In spite of the reserve +which characterizes the author, a few of the leading facts of his life +have found their way into print, and may be of interest to many who +read his books. + +He comes from Virginia ancestry and a pioneer Kentucky family. His +mother's maiden name was Helen Foster, whose parents settled in +Mississippi and were of Revolutionary Scotch-Irish stock of +Pennsylvania. He was born on a farm in Fayette County seven miles from +Lexington, Kentucky, where he spent his early childhood. He was +educated in Kentucky (Transylvania) University, and graduated in 1872. +For several years afterward he taught in District schools, at first +near his home and then in Missouri. He afterward became a private +tutor, and finally accepted a Professorship at his Alma Mater which he +exchanged for a similar position at Bethany College, West Virginia. He +gave up this latter profession in 1884 and began his career as a writer +in the city of New York. + +The chief literary and critical Magazines and papers of those years +contain many of his essays, while all his short stories saw the light +in "Harper's Magazine" and the "Century." These short stories were +collected and published under the title of "_Flute and Violin_." His +other books are "_The Blue Grass Region of Kentucky_," "_A Kentucky +Cardinal_," and its sequel, "_Aftermath_," "_A Summer in Arcady_," and +lastly "_The Choir Invisible_," some two hundred and fifty thousand +copies of which have found their way into the hands of readers on both +sides of the Atlantic. + +A new and complete edition of Mr. Allen's works is now being issued by +THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. It will contain seven volumes; including _The +Reign of Law, A Story of the Kentucky Hemp Fields_, an account of which +has been given in the preceding pages. + + + * * * * * + + +JAMES LANE ALLEN'S + +NEW NOVEL + +The Reign of Law + +A TALE OF THE KENTUCKY HEMP FIELDS + +Cloth, 8vo. Illustrated $1.50 + + +OTHER WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR + + +FLUTE AND VIOLIN Cloth, 12mo, $1.50 + +BLUE GRASS REGION OF KENTUCKY Cloth, 12mo, $1.50 + +A KENTUCKY CARDINAL Cloth, 16mo, $1.00 + +AFTERMATH Cloth, 16mo, $1.00 + +TWO GENTLEMEN OF KENTUCKY Cloth, 18mo, $2.00 + +A SUMMER IN ARCADY Cloth, 12mo, $2.00 + +THE CHOIR INVISIBLE Cloth, 12mo, $1.50 + +The same Illustrated with Photogravures and Line +Drawings, by ORSON LOWELL. 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