POPULAR NOVELS BY _MRS. MARY J. HOLMES_. TEMPEST AND SUNSHINE. ENGLISH ORPHANS. HOMESTEAD ON HILLSIDE. LENA RIVERS. MEADOW BROOK. DORA DEANE. COUSIN MAUDE. MARIAN GREY. EDITH LYLE. DAISY THORNTON. CHATEAU D’OR. DARKNESS AND DAYLIGHT. HUGH WORTHINGTON. CAMERON PRIDE. ROSE MATHER. ETHELYN’S MISTAKE. MILBANK. EDNA BROWNING. WEST LAWN. MILDRED. FORREST HOUSE. MADELINE (_New_). QUEENIE HETHERTON (_New_). “Mrs. Holmes is a peculiarly pleasant and fascinating writer. Her books are always entertaining, and she has the rare faculty of enlisting the sympathy and affections of her readers, and of holding their attention to her pages with deep and absorbing interest.” All published uniform with this volume. Price $1.50 each. Sold everywhere, and sent _free_ by mail on receipt of price, BY G. W. CARLETON & Co., Publishers, New York. ROSE MATHER: A Tale. BY MRS. MARY J. HOLMES, AUTHOR OF “TEMPEST AND SUNSHINE,” “LENA RIVERS,” “THE CAMERON PRIDE,” ETC., ETC. [Illustration] NEW YORK: _Carleton, Publisher, Madison Square_. LONDON: S. LOW, SON & CO. MDCCCLXXXIII. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by DANIEL HOLMES, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Northern District of New York. TROW’S PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING CO., _205–213 East 12th St._, NEW YORK. _To_ THE SOLDIERS LIVING AND The Memory of the Soldiers Dead, THIS STORY OF THE WAR IS GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. BROWN COTTAGE, Brockport, N. Y. _April, 1868._ CONTENTS.