Ruth McEnery Stuart was among the best known and most popular of nineteenth-century Louisiana writers.She was, both financially and critically, one of the most successful fiction writers of her time, and in recent years has been studied by feminist and social literary critics. This selection chosen by the critic August Nemocontains the following stories: - Sonny's Christenin' - Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets - The Two Tims - Old Easter - Saint Idyl's Light - Little Mother Quackalina - Blink