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John Fox, Jr., '83, author of "The Kentuckians," "Hell fer Sartain," and other stories, gave a reading from his works last evening in Sanders Theatre, concluding the series of the Cantabrigia Club. Mr. Fox prefaced his reading with a short sketch of the Kentucky mountaineer in order to make the stories more intelligible to those who were unfamiliar with this unique type of American character. Mr. Fox has portrayed this character in his stories with a clear insight and a fine sense of humore. His complete mastery of the dialect, from having been much among the mountaineers, and his understanding...
...Radcliffe College Scholarship Fund will be in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock this evening. Mr. John Fox, Jr., will give a brief talk on the southern mountaineer as New England's ally in the Civil War, and will read passages from "The Kentuckians"; "Courtin' on Cutshin'," "Hell fer Sartain," "A Trick o' Trade," "Preachin' on Kingdom Come," "The Passing of Abe Shivers," and "The Message on the Sand." Mrs. May Alden Ward will preside...
E.GORDON PARKER, A. M., 16 Dunster Hall.SANDERS THEATRE, Feb. 2, at 8 p. m. John Fox, Jr., of Kentucky, author of "The Kentuckians," "A Cumberland Vendetta," "Hell fer Sartain...
...Monologues: "Courtin' on Cutshin"; "Hell fer Sartain...
...Hell fer Sartain," by John Fox, Jr., (Harper and Brothers), is a collection of short stories of the Kentucky mountains which have appeard from time to time in the magazines. Many of them are in dialect, but the intending reader need not be alarmed, for the dialect is not at all difficult to read and is extremely interesting owing to its unique character...