The story of the heroic midshipman of the frigate Constellation. The second of the _Youth's Companion_ prize stories. Illustrated by J. O. Davidson and George Wharton Edwards. 8vo. Cloth, with specially designed cover, $1.00. "Miss Seawell owns a very capable and a very delicate pen."--_New York Sun._ "The little book is one of the very best the season has brought us."--_Detroit Free Press._ "A pathetic, charming tale. 'Little Jams' will thrill many a boy's heart...."--_Brooklyn Standard-Union._ "The story of the heroism and death of Little Jarvis will thrill the heart of every reader."--_Boston Home Journal._ _For sale by all booksellers, or will be sent by mail on receipt of price by the publishers_, =D. APPLETON & CO., 1, 3, & 5 Bond Street, New York=. * * * * * * MAID MARIAN AND OTHER STORIES by MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL Author of Throckmorton, Little Jarvis, etc. [Illustration] New York D. Appleton and Company 1891 COPYRIGHT, 1891, bY D. APPLETON aND COMPANY. CONTENTS. PAGE MAID MARIAN 5 LITTLE MISSY 43 THE SEA FORTUNES OF DICKY CAREW 57 THE KOURÁSOFFS 80 A VIRGINIA COLONEL 109 THE VALBELLA BROTHERS 129 THEODORA 151 TUBAL THE FIDDLER 183 PRISCILLA 198 KAINTUCK 220 MAID MARIAN. Yes, it was surely the embodiment of feminine beauty--the dark, narrow-lidded eyes, wide apart--did you ever notice the terrible intelligence in the eyes of a portrait?--the slim patrician nose, the hair so quaintly coifed with pearl, the uplifted hand: no wonder that Macfarren gazed at it with something like reverence. You will be apt to imagine that Macfarren was an enthusiast, possibly with darkly curling hair and of a Byronic-Dantesque cast of countenance. Quite the contrary. He was a keen-witted, hard-headed New York lawyer fast galloping out of his forties--a well-made, well-dressed man, with a clear-cut, sensible face. His hair had been trifled with by the hand of Time, and what remained is not worth describing.