"When anything is done, People see not the patient doing of it, Nor think how great would be the loss to man If it had not been done. As in a building Stone rests on stone, and, wanting a foundation, All would be wanting; so in human life, Each action rests on the foregone event That made it possible, but is forgotten, And buried in the earth." When the dawn of peace came, nowhere was it hailed with more exultant joy than in Marblehead. Nowhere in all the land had there been such sacrifices made as by the people of this little town by the sea. Many of those who had been wealthy were now reduced to poverty,--their commerce was ruined, their blood had been poured out like water. But for all this there was no complaining by those who were left, no upbraiding sorrow for those who would never return. There was only joy that the struggle was ended, and independence achieved for themselves and the nation they had helped to create. And down the long vista of years between their day and our own, the hallowed memory of their loyalty shines out as do the lights of the old town over the night sea, whose waves sing for its heroes a fitting requiem. THE END UP AND DOWN THE SANDS OF GOLD _A PRESENT-DAY NOVEL_ BY MARY DEVEREUX Author of "From Kingdom to Colony" and "Lafitte of Louisiana." 12mo. Decorated Cloth. $1.50. A love story, told with delicacy and grace.--_Brooklyn Times_. Humor and pathos, love and adventure, abound throughout the work. Spicy incidents are plentiful.--_Atlanta Constitution_. Margaret Leslie is a heroine who deserves a place in Mr. Howells' gallery of immortal heroines in fiction.--_Rochester Herald_. Margaret Leslie's brave service in the battle with self is as attractive as the patriotic deeds of Mary Devereux's former heroine.--_New York Times Saturday Review_. The story is one of sunshine and shade, of smiles and tears. The author has created for us a little company of people whom we learn to love, and from whom it is hard to part.--_Boston Transcript_. The book is charmingly written, the style pure and strong, and the play of native wit engaging.--_Outlook_, New York. A genius for depicting character in a telling way, and in a style that is charming as well as pungent, is one of Mary Devereux's strongest points.--_Rocky Mountain News_, Denver. It is a positive treat to read such a pure, sweet story,--a genuine story of natural men and women in a seashore town in New England.--_Buffalo Commercial_. LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., Publishers 254 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts NEW & POPULAR FICTION LAFITTE OF LOUISIANA By MARY DEVEREUX. Illustrated by Harry C. Edwards. 12mo. 427 pages. $1.50.