[1] He planted at this time one thousand acres of rice successfully. [2] Marcus has since died. He was found one morning in his stable, where he had gone to harness his horse, leaning against the manger, stiff in death. He bore a high character, and his death was regretted by white and black. [3] "Yedde" means to hear in real gullah, which some of the old darkies still use. [4] "ne" is a contraction of "in the." The following pages contain advertisements of a few of the Macmillan books on kindred subjects Mothering on Perilous By LUCY FURMAN With Illustrations by Mary Lane McMillan Decorated cloth, 12mo; preparing The scene, a settlement school in Kentucky; the characters, the unformed children of the mountaineers and a young woman, their teacher, who has come to them that she may forget in her work a great sorrow that has entered into her life. How her grief is not only assuaged, but how she finds a new life, rich in possibilities, in the mothering of the homesick lads and in the molding of their careers, is told by Miss Furman with a wealth of feeling. The book is at times as genuinely humorous as it is touching and all through it there is evidenced the hand of one who knows whereof she speaks. Miss Furman is a teacher in a school in Kentucky. "Mothering on Perilous" may, therefore, be taken not as a story, but as a picture of what is actually being done by earnest-minded people in a line of endeavor of which too little is known. A Kingdom of Two By HELEN R. ALBEE Decorated cloth, illustrated, 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 home-maker and the gardener are happily blended in this book with sentiment and a pleasing vein of philosophical reflection. While the work is primarily one for lovers of the great outdoors, for Nature in its various moods is perhaps the central theme, it is much more than what is ordinarily termed a "nature volume." The story form, only half assumed, the charming personalities which are presented, their day to day lives, these all lend to it an added interest. The "Highways and Byways" Series Highways and Byways from the St. Lawrence to Virginia By CLIFTON JOHNSON With many illustrations made from photographs taken by the author Tourist edition, decorated cloth, 12mo, $1.50 net As in the case of the other volumes in this series Mr. Johnson deals here primarily with country life—especially that which is typical and picturesque. The author's trips have taken him to many characteristic and famous regions; but always both in text and pictures he has tried to show nature as it is and to convey some of the pleasure he experienced in his intimate acquaintances with the people. There are notes giving valuable information concerning automobile routes and other facts of interest to tourists in general. Tourist Editions of the "South" and the "Pacific Coast" Highways and Byways of the South By CLIFTON JOHNSON Tourist edition, illustrated, decorated cloth, 12mo, $1.50 net Highways and Byways of the Pacific Coast By CLIFTON JOHNSON Tourist edition, illustrated, decorated cloth, 12mo, $1.50 net New Illustrated Books of Travel, Adventure, and Description My Life with the Eskimos By VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON. Illustrated with half tone reproductions of photographs taken by the author and others. Decorated cloth, 8vo. Preparing A fascinating book of description and adventure has been written by the famous traveler and explorer, who has passed years of his life within the Arctic Circle. Mr. Stefansson has had a vast amount of material upon which to draw and he has made his selection wisely. He has lived with the Eskimos for long periods; he knows their language; he has subsisted on their food; he has heard their legends; he has seen them in their daily lives as have few explorers. Consequently his remarks about this primitive and matter-of-fact people are shrewd, true and frequently amusing. The experiences and tales which he recounts, mirroring the hardships and the inspirations of life in a fearful but wonderful country, compose a work quite the most absorbing on it that has ever been published. Hunting the Elephant in Africa By C. H. STIGAND. With illustrations made from photographs taken by the author. Decorated cloth, 8vo. Preparing For a period of more than thirteen years the author of this work has hunted big game in the jungles of East Africa. Here are told simply and with an attractive modesty, yet dramatically, some of his most remarkable experiences. It is an old-fashioned animal hunting book with real thrills in it and revealing many new points on the habits of the beasts of a wild country. Captain Stigand is no nature fakir; his work is consequently a robust one in which is embodied the spirit of the real hunter. Colonel Roosevelt has written an introduction for the volume, which is illustrated by a number of very interesting pictures made from photographs taken by the author. The Barbary Coast By ALBERT EDWARDS Author of "Panama," "Comrade Yetta," etc. With many illustrations; decorated cloth, 12mo; preparing Albert Edwards's "Panama: The Canal, the Country, and the People" has gone into many editions and received wide and favorable comment. Much may, therefore, be expected of this new descriptive volume, in which Mr. Edwards relates some of his remarkable and always interesting experiences in the states of northern Africa. Mr. Edwards does not write with a history or a book at his elbow; what he says does not come to the reader from a second-hand knowledge. He has been in Africa himself and he writes out of his own life. America As I Saw It By E. ALEC TWEEDIE With illustrations; decorated cloth, 8vo; preparing Many books have been written by people who have visited this country and have then returned to their native heath, but it is doubtful whether any one has gone at the task with such an abundance of good humor as has the author of this sprightly volume. Mrs. Tweedie says things, to be sure, about America and Americans that will not be wholly acceptable, but she says them in such a way that even the most sensitive cannot take offence. In fact, it is quite likely that her criticisms will provoke laughter as good humored in itself as the remarks which cause it. There is hardly a spot on the broad continent that does not pass under Mrs. Tweedie's examination, and scarcely a person of importance. She finds much to praise openly, but amusing as it may seem, these praiseworthy factors are not those upon which we expect commendation. Our dinners, our clubs, our educational systems, our transportation facilities, our home life, our theatres, our books, our art, all are analyzed and "Tweedie verdicts" passed. Of course the book is to be taken seriously, but not too seriously; Mrs. Tweedie would be offended if we did not laugh at her cajolery; that is what she wrote for. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Publishers64-66 Fifth AvenueNew York |