* * * * * _The Colonial Cavalier_ =Or, Southern Life Before the Revolution= By MAUD WILDER GOODWIN. New edition, with notes. With numerous full-page and smaller illustrations by Harry Edwards. 12mo. Cloth, extra, gilt top, $2.00. Full crushed morocco, gilt edges, $4.50. This thoughtful and most suggestive and entertaining study of the domestic and social life of the early settlers of Virginia and Maryland has received the highest praise. It gives us, through the old-time gossip of letters and diaries, and the homely details of life and customs, _a fireside intimacy with old Virginian and Maryland life which we have never had before_.--_New York Evening Post._ _A delightful sketch of the colonial cavalier in his home, church, state, and social relations._ We are made acquainted with the whole man.--_The Outlook._ =LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY= =Publishers · 254 Washington Street, Boston= * * * * * Transcriber's Notes: Many thanks to Chris Jordan for transcribing the music scores on pages 94 and 319-320 into digital form, and the HTML version of this work includes links on those pages to PDF, MIDI, and MusicXML files for the scores. Pages 94 and 319-320: The music scores on these pages are marked by "[Illustration (music score)]." The lyrics for the score on pages 319-320 include hyphens and spaces to indicate phrasing. Pages 94-96: _The Dumb Maid_ is a traditional folk song, and lyrics for a number of variants are on the World Wide Web under this title and others, including _The Young Gallant Trappan'd_, _There Was a Country Blade_, _The Dumb Wife_, _Dumb, Dumb, Dumb_, and _The Dumb Wife's Tongue let Loose_. An audio recording of a variant made during _The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip_ is available in _AFC 1939/001: AFS 02590b01 DLC-AFC American Folklife Center, Library of Congress_ under the title _There Was a Country Blade_. The notes on the page 94 score are too high for a male singer, who would probably sing this an octave or more lower. Pages 319-320: The music score is for the first verse of _Belle Qui Tiens Ma Vie_ by Thoinot Arbeau (1520-1595). Numerous performances of this are available on the World Wide Web, as well as lyrics for all the verses, including translations into modern English. The spelling for some words in the lyrics varies among different sources. Punctuation has been made consistent. Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication, except as noted below. Changes have been made as follows: Page 34: "t'is" changed to "'tis" (breath; "'tis time) Page 344: "non-commital" changed to "non-committal" (a non-committal smile) End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Sir Christopher, by Maud Wilder Goodwin