The purpose of this volume is stated by the editor in these words: "I
determined to bring together in one place in a convenient compendium, as
it were, some gleanings from many and dusty tomes, some fragments of
reality, in the hope that from them might radiate for others, as for me,
shafts of light to penetrate the past." The result is unique in the
revelation afforded in the Puritans' own words of their daily walk and
conversation and of that inner temper which governed their public acts.
The range is from orders for clothes and directions for an Atlantic
voyage to the soul searchings of Cotton Mather and the spiritual
ecstasies of Mrs. Jonathan Edwards.

The idea is a happy one, and Miss Hanscom carries it through with great
tact and deftness.

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York




The Tree of Heaven

By MAY SINCLAIR

_Cloth, $1.60_

A singularly penetrating story of modern life, written in the author's
very best manner. The scheme, the root motive of the book, may be said