In the midst of all this change and growth and bustle of new business, Master Simon’s garden is still untouched. The roses and lilies, the pink peonies and white hollyhocks, bloom on, undisturbed, year after year. The great house of mellow brick, covered now with vines to the very roof, looks out over the sea, unchanged. In the garden, romping down the paths and tumbling on the grass, play Master Simon’s children to a far generation. For but a few years, it seems, they frolic there among the flowers and then, grown to men and women, they set off to do their share of the world’s labour. And there, in June, when the linden tree blooms and the bees hum loud in the branches, they sit upon the bench in the Queen’s Garden and hear the story of Master Simon. Over and over, the tale is told, by mother to daughter, by father to son, a long, long story now, for it reaches back to the times of great Queen Elizabeth, and it will go forward, who can tell how far. Each generation has something new to add, some record of danger faced, of hardship endured, of work well done for the good of all. And they who hear it, those growing boys and girls, store it away as a memory to serve in time of need, so that, when the time comes, they may do their part in the labour of the world, that they may take up Master Simon’s work and bear it a little further, that they may build higher and yet higher the roofs of gold. THE END Printed in the United States of America ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following pages contain advertisements of books by the same author or on kindred subjects. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BY THE SAME AUTHOR THE KINGDOM OF THE WINDING ROAD By CORNELIA MEIGS With illustrations in color and in black and white by Frances White. Cloth, 12mo, $1.25. A romantic and fanciful story of a beggar who travels the country over in his tattered red cloak, playing his penny flute—which is in reality a magic pipe to help those in distress and to combat the bitterness of life. “There is a charm about the telling of the tales which will place them in the front rank of works of the kind.”—Congregationalist and Christian World. THE STEADFAST PRINCESS By CORNELIA MEIGS Cloth, 12mo, Fifty cents Fairy stories in the form of plays or tableaux for children are not uncommon but few of them can be recommended as highly as “The Steadfast Princess.”—Springfield Republican. “A play of exceptional literary quality.”—Review of Reviews. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEW BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ISABEL CARLETON’S YEAR By MARGARET ASHMUN