So side by side, and presently when we got to the wood’s edge hand in hand, Mary Gordon and I went out into the world together. * * * * * _Final Addition and Conclusion by Hob MacClellan._ Thus my brother left the writing which has fallen into my hand. In a word I must finish what I cannot alter or amend. His marriage with Mary Gordon was most happy and gracious, though I have ever heard that she retained throughout her life her high proud nature and hasty speech. Her father relented his anger after the great renovation of the Covenants at Auchensaugh. Indeed, I question whether in driving them forth from Earlstoun, as hath been told, Alexander Gordon was not acting a part. For when he came to see my wife, Alexander-Jonita, after our little Quintin was born, he said, “Heard ye aught of your brother and his wife?” I told him that they were well and hearty, full of honour, work, and the happiness of children. “Aye,” said he, after a pause of reflection, “Quintin has indeed muckle to thank me for. I took the only way with our Mary, to make her ten times fonder o’ him than she was.” And he chuckled a little deep laugh in his throat. “But,” he said, “I wad gie a year’s rent to ken how she liked the dykeback the night she left the Earlstoun.” THE END. * * * * * BY S. R. CROCKETT. Uniform edition. Each, 12mo, cloth, $1.50. _THE STANDARD BEARER._ An Historical Romance. Mr. Crockett stands on ground that he has made his own in this romance of the Scottish Covenanters. The story opens in 1685, “the Terrible Year,” with a vivid picture of the pursuit of fugitive Covenanters by the dragoons. The hero, who becomes a Covenanting minister, sees many strange and stirring adventures. The charming love story which runs through the book is varied by much excellent fighting and many picturesque incidents. “The Standard Bearer” is likely to be ranked by readers with Mr. Crockett’s most successful work. _LADS’ LOVE._ Illustrated. “It seems to us that there is in this latest product much of the realism of personal experience. However modified and disguised, it is hardly possible to think that the writer’s personality does not present itself in Saunders McQuhirr.... Rarely has the author drawn more truly from life than in the cases of Nance and ‘the Hempie’; never more typical Scotsman of the humble sort than the farmer Peter Chrystie.”--_London Athenæum._ _CLEG KELLY, ARAB OF THE CITY. His Progress and Adventures._ Illustrated. “A masterpiece which Mark Twain himself has never rivaled.... If there ever was an ideal character in fiction it is this heroic ragamuffin.”--_London Daily Chronicle._