A Kentucky Cardinal is American writer James Lane Allen's third novel. It was in 1894 as the first of the A Kentucky Cardinal series.Work from "Kentucky's first important novelist" and an attempt to capture the spirit, and dialects, of his native Kentucky in the United States during the Civil War and post Civil War reconstruction era. Flute And Violin And Other Kentucky Tales And Romances Shows that there was an imaginative height and a poetic depth to be touched which no previous hand had reached in this class of historic fiction." Contents: - Flute and Violin - King Solomon of Kentucky - Two Gentlemen of Kentucky - The White Cowl - Sister Dolorosa - Posthumous Fame