and seeing through her closed eyelids
the flashes of lightning. She was not tired, only sleepy and happy. The
same calm that enveloped her in the forest was around her now, and soon
she was sleeping as deeply and sweetly as she had slept in the
afternoon. And while she slept, the man who had guarded her forest
slumber sat in the darkness, dreaming, and gazing at a picture that
would never fade from his brain: In the midst of the living forest a
dead tree, and at its foot a sleeping girl holding a bunch of withered
violets.

Ah, well! The perfect day was over and never again would come another
like it. To-morrow the sleeper and the dreamer would wake and rise to
the old, dull routine of daily toil and daily weariness, but though the
day was gone, its grace would abide forever, and life could never be
quite the same to the one who had met face to face with the True
Romance, and to the other who had lived, for a few charmed hours, the
life of the fowls of the air and the lilies of the field.

* * * * *

_By the author of "The Land of Long Ago."_

AUNT JANE OF KENTUCKY

_By_ ELIZA CALVERT HALL

Illustrated by Beulah Strong. 12mo. Cloth. $1.30 _net_

Aunt Jane is perfectly delightful.--_The Outlook_, New York.

A book that plays on the heart strings.--_St. Louis Post-Despatch._

What Mrs. Gaskill did in "Cranford" this author does for
Kentucky.--_Syracuse Herald._

A prose idyl. Nothing more charming has appeared in recent
fiction.--MARGARET E. SANGSTER.

These pages have in them much of the stuff that makes genuine
literature.--_Louisville Courier Journal._

Where so many have made caricatures of old-time country folk, Eliza
Calvert Hall has caught at once the real charm, the real spirit, the
real people, and the real joy of living which was theirs.--_New York
Times._

Have you read that charming little book written by one of your clever
Kentucky women--"Aunt Jane of Kentucky"--by Eliza Calvert Hall? It is
very wholesome and attractive. Be sure that you read it.--THEODORE
ROOSEVELT.

LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., PUBLISHERS 34 BEACON STREET, BOSTON

* * * * *

_By the Author of "Aunt Jane of Kentucky"_

THE LAND OF LONG AGO

_By_ ELIZA CALVERT HALL

Illustrated by G. Patrick Nelson and Beulah Strong 12mo. Cloth. $1.30
_net_

The book is an inspiration.--_Boston Globe._

Without qualification one of the worthiest publications of