de, hatred and warfare, but of my own wonderful
resurrection from grief, despair and selfishness to life and love and
service. Now that I have Nucky back again, my joy is perfect, my cup
overflows. To-day I have written my agent to accept one of the offers I
have had for the old home,--the proceeds shall be used for sending my
boys to college when the time comes. Henceforth my home is here,--here,
where my once lonely and drifting barque is held in a fair harbor by
twelve strong anchors. Lapped continually by warm tides of love and
youth and joy. And my dearest hope is that the rest of my days may be
spent Mothering on Perilous.

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| The following pages contain advertisements of a |
| few of the Macmillan books on kindred subjects |
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A Woman Rice Planter

BY PATIENCE PENNINGTON. With an Introduction by Owen Wister and
with nearly 100 illustrations by Alice R. Huger Smith.

_Decorated cloth, 8vo, preparing_

Here are detailed the actual experiences of a woman rice planter on her
own account, as the manager of two large plantations in South Carolina.
The book is all the more interesting and instructive because it is told
in a charmingly simple manner, and without a trace of self-consciousness
or self-assertion. Independently of the information it conveys it has
attraction for every reader by reason of that manner and as a revelation
of a feminine character in which are manifested tender susceptibility
and womanly sympathy no less than rugged courage in assuming an arduous
task and in overcoming heavy practical obstacles. The narrative of the
planter's life with its many responsibilities, the risks, the vexations
and the cares involved in her ventures, the sagacity, skill and
indomitable persistency with which she pursued her way, make reading
always interesting and frequently valuable for its insight into a
remarkable Southern home.

PUBLISHED BY
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York

A Kingdom of Two

BY HELEN R. ALBEE.

_Illustrated. Decorated cloth, 12mo, preparing_

"The Kingdom" is a country place of about two hundred acres and the
"two" are the writer's husband and herself. Practical information for
the homemaker and the gardener are happily blended in this book with
sentiment and a pleasing vein of philosophica