Who can read of the beginning of that sweet life, named Mara, which came into this world under the very shadow of the Death angel’s wings, without having an intense desire to know how the premature bud blossomed? Again and again one lingers over the descriptions of the character of that baby boy Moses, who came through the tempest, amid the angry billows, pillowed on his dead mother’s breast. There is no more faithful portrayal of New England life than that which Mrs. Stowe gives in “The Pearl of Orr’s Island.” For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the publishers, A. L. BURT COMPANY, 53–58 Duane St., New York. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. P. 260, changed “In fact there very few passengers on board” to “In fact there were very few passengers on board”. 2. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling. 3. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 4. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.