Old Judge Priest

by Irvin S. Cobb

1916. American humorist and newspaper columnist for The Saturday Evening Post and Cosmopolitan. He is best known for his Judge Priest stories. Contents: The Lord Provides; A Blending of the Parables; Judge Priest Comes Back; A Chapter from the Life of an Ant; Sergeant Jimmy Bagby's Feet; According to the Code; Forrest's Last Charge; Double-Barrelled Justice; and A Beautiful Evening. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction

401 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1912

About the author

(Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb)

American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky who relocated to New York during 1904, living there for the remainder of his life.

He wrote for the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, as the highest paid staff reporter in the United States.

Cobb also wrote more than 60 books and 300 short stories. Some of his works were adapted for silent movies. Several of his Judge Priest short stories were adapted for two feature films during the 1930s directed by John Ford.

Reviews

[Arthur Pierce]

Irvin S. Cobb was a young man living in Kentucky during the time these stories are set (circa 1890-1910), and the consequently present a vivid picture of what life was like in that part of the country in the half century or so after the War Between the States. The stories have humor, but some are ultimately serious in nature, and the character of the tolerant Judge Priest is an admirable and sympathetic one.

[Kent]

Relaxing and entertaining.

[Jack Heath]

Synopsis: Cobb was best known for his Judge Priest stories in the Saturday Evening Post. Here we are presented with nine shorts.

[Janci]

Really gives a sense of the time and place, much like Wendell Berry.