"A good many books have been written about the lives and customs of our ancestors of colonial times, and especially about the differences between their lives and ours and the primitive and picturesque utensils which they employed in their households. These have been partly the outcome and partly the prompting agency of the rage for antiques. Various writers have unearthed a large amount of curious lore, which is not all of equal value, though almost every hint that has come through their pages goes to recreate the atmosphere and reveal the conditions pertaining to the earliest pioneers in North America. Mrs. Alice Morse Earle has done a great deal of good work in this field. Probably it is quite within bounds to say that she possesses a larger fund of vivacious and interesting knowledge about the lives and the works, the occupations and makeshifts, the industries and enjoyments, of the Puritans and the other early colonists than any other student in this rich domain." =Philadelphia Evening Telegraph=: "Mrs. Earle, as many readers have discovered, is one of the most painstaking and agreeable of antiquarians. The present book is one of her best." =Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester=: "Touches a most fascinating phase of American history.... The story, which has been patiently gathered from many sources and historical records, is told in a graphic and charming manner, and is pictured by nearly 200 illustrations ... certainly a contribution to our history of very high value." =The Herald, Boston=: "Full of new information and description of surprisingly fresh interest ... no other single volume with which we happen to be acquainted constructs with such completeness, fairness, and suggestiveness, the atmosphere of colonial homes." =Buffalo Commercial=: "One of the handsomest books that we have received." THE MACMILLAN COMPANY =66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK= =_STORIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY_= Each Crown 8vo. Cloth, $1.50 =YANKEE SHIPS AND YANKEE SAILORS= =TALES OF 1812= =By JAMES BARNES= Illustrated by R. F. ZOGBAUM and C. T. CHAPMAN. "Mr. Barnes knows how to tell a story as well as how to write history. His style is terse and full of movement; his book one that old and young may read with zest."--_Detroit Free Press._ =SOUTHERN SOLDIER STORIES= =By GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON= _Author of "A Rebel's Recollections," etc., etc._ Illustrated by R. F. ZOGBAUM. "Faithfully told stories, bearing every evidence of absolute truth.... One's pulses quicken as he becomes acquainted with the heroic deeds of those brave Americans, who were on the losing side, fighting an impossible cause; he sorrows with those who felt the tragedy of it all. It is a volume which every boy or girl, as well as every man and woman in America, may read with profitable interest."--_The St. Louis Globe Democrat._ "Such capital reading that no one can fail to enjoy them."--_New Orleans Picayune._