THE OLD HOMESTEAD

A STORY OF NEW ENGLAND FARM LIFE.

BY MRS. ANN S. STEPHENS.

AUTHOR OF "FASHION AND FAMINE," "THE REIGNING BELLE," "THE GOLD
BRICK," "MABEL'S MISTAKE," "THE WIFE'S SECRET," "BELLEHOOD AND
BONDAGE," "LORD HOPE'S CHOICE," "BERTHA'S ENGAGEMENT," "THE CURSE
OF GOLD," "NORSTON'S REST," "A NOBLE WOMAN," "THE SOLDIER'S ORPHANS,"
"THE HEIRESS," "MARRIED IN HASTE," "PALACES AND PRISONS," "DOUBLY
FALSE," "MARY DERWENT," "THE REJECTED WIFE," "RUBY GRAY'S STRATEGY,"
"THE OLD COUNTESS," "SILENT STRUGGLES," "WIVES AND WIDOWS," ETC.

"THE OLD HOMESTEAD" is a superb story of quaint New England farm life
in the vein now so popular both in fiction and on the stage. With
an absorbing plot, effective incidents and characters entirely true
to nature, it holds attention as very few stories do. It possesses
all that powerful attraction which clings to a romance of home, the
family fireside and the people who gather about it. Simplicity and
strength are happily combined in its pages, and no one can begin it
without desiring to read it through. All the works of Mrs. Ann S.
Stephens are books that everybody should read, for in point of real
merit, wonderful ingenuity and absorbing interest they loom far above
the majority of the books of the day. She has a thorough knowledge
of human nature, and so vividly drawn and natural are her characters
that they seem instinct with life. Her plots are models of
construction, and she excels in depicting young lovers, their trials,
troubles, sorrows and joys, while her love scenes fascinate the young
as well as the old. In short, Mrs. Stephens' novels richly merit both