[Gruger] - Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!

From the dust-jacket:
“Scores of appreciative reviewers, literally thousands of delighted readers have selected a particular chapter in Irvin S. Cobb’s popular autobiography, Exit Laughing, as their favorite – the one called “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory.”

“It is a chapter made up of tales and anecdotes about his loyal, life-long friends among the Negroes of Paducah. He knows well, he reveals supremely well, their emotional hearts, their love of florid language, their unfailing flair for the dramatic. He pays here his gay and touching tribute to a race.

“The chapter leads up to something stunning – the report of a post-war mass meeting where the Negroes of Paducah gathered to honor one of their own who had gained glory on the fields of France and Mr. Cobb was the only whiter speaker.

“That story has well-nigh everything – humor and pathos and drama, tense action, suspense and climax, all seasoned by the rare Cobbian wit, polished and fashioned by his skill into a classic.

“This jewel of a tale (with its context) has been taken from the treasure-chest of Exit Laughing, and given a separate setting with pictures by the inimitable F.R. Gruger.”