of a sentimental, young lady of distinguished birth.

The first period of Christian Reid's literary activities comprises the decade from 1869 to 1879. Most notable of the works of this period are the novels, Morton House (1871), A Daughter of Bohemia (1874), and A Question of Honor (1875). Her slight travel-sketch, entitled The Land of the Sky (1876) was highly popular, read by hundreds of thousands of people. This was considered the most notable commemoration of a section of the US ever published in North Carolina. After extending a line