Southern Lights and Shadows

Southern Lights and Shadows is a collection of American short stories written by carious authors and edited by William Dean Howells And Henry Mills Alden. 

The most noticeable characteristic of the extraordinary literary development of the South since the Civil War is that it is almost entirely in the direction of realism. A people who, up to that time, had been so romantic that they wished to naturalize among themselves the ideals and usages of the Walter Scott ages of chivalry, suddenly dropped all that, and in their search for literary material could apparently find nothing so good as the facts of their native life.

The list of stories and authors are below:

• THE CAPTURE OF ANDY PROUDFOOT by Grace MacGowan Cooke
• THE LEVEL OF FORTUNE by Abby Meguire Roach
• PAP OVERHOLT by Alice MacGowan
• IN THE PINY WOODS by Mrs. B.F. Mayhew
• MY FIFTH IN MAMMY by William L. Sheppard
• AN INCIDENT by Sarah Barnwell Elliott
• A SNIPE HUNT by M.E.M. Davis
• THE COURTSHIP OF COLONEL BILL by J.J. Eakins
• THE BALANCE OF POWER  by Maurice Thompson