This book is an attempt to show some of her incarnations and some typical scenes of Bryn Mawr life. College life is not dramatic and college stories have no great dramatic interest, unless they introduce elements foreign to the campus. Those who look to these stories, therefore, for entertainment may be disappointed, since most of them are serious in tone, and in their appeal to the reader depend largely upon the charm of local colour. If in the mind of any one the spirit portrayed in this book is unworthy, if it falls short of the ideal of what college life should be, let it be remembered that this is a first attempt, and let the expression be blamed but not the Bryn Mawr spirit. All of the following stories are new, and were written for this book, except _Studies in College Colour_, which are reprinted from _The Lantern_ of 1893. One of these studies, the description of Chapel, has appeared also in _Cap and Gown in Prose_. For permission to use this last the editors are indebted to the courtesy of Messrs. L. C. Page & Company. _M. M. 1900._ _L. B. C. 1900._ Contents HER MASTERPIECE, _Marian T. MacIntosh, '90_ IN MAYTIME, _Anne Maynard Kidder, 1903_ WITHIN FOUR YEARS, _Elva Lee, '93_ FREE AMONG THE DEAD, _Georgiana Goddard King, '96_ STUDIES IN COLLEGE COLOUR, _L. S. B. S., '93, and G. E. T. S., '93_ EPOCH MAKING, _Cora Armistead Hardy, '99_ A REMINISCENCE, _Clara Warren Vail, '97_ CATHERINE'S CAREER, _Harriet Jean Crawford, 1902_ THE APOSTASY OF ANITA FISKE, _Ellen Rose Giles, '96_ A DIPLOMATIC CRUSADE, _Edith Campbell Crane, 1900_ _HER MASTERPIECE_ I