: HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY A PRETTY SURPRISE. This pretty volume has proved a delightful surprise to tens of thousands of readers; we hope it may yet find place in millions of homes. Though sold at a price so low, it is fairly char acteristic, in quality and price, of a large portion of our publications, and is no more than a fair illustration of what the coöperation of book buyers might accomplish for nearly all books that are worth buying; see particulars in last pages of our catalogue. 66 RICHER THAN CROESUS." "Now the only Croesus that I envy is he who is reading a better book than this," Philip Gilbert Hamerton's exclamation when reading a book which delighted him, is one that often comes to the mind of the book-lover when reveling in the riches revealed by our Catalogue. It presents a great number of the choicest books of the world, at the lowest prices ever known. Our new Catalogue, issued twice a month, 128 pages in size, is sent post-paid for a 2-cent stamp; our books are not sold by dealers; order direct from us. Any book published supplied on the most favorable terms to be had any where. Address, JOHN B. ALDEN, Publisher, 57 Rose St., New York. Copyright. 1892, by The Elzevir Co. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. ILLUSTRATION II.-DESIGNED BY BIRKET FOSTER.... "Waste are those pleasant farms, and the farmers forever departed." ILLUSTRATION III.-DESIGNED BY BIRKET FOSTER.. "Solemnly down the street came the parish priest, and the children Paused in their play to kiss the hand he extended to bless them." ILLUSTRATION IV.--DESIGNED BY JANE E. BENHAM.... • Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her." ILLUSTRATION V.-DESIGNED BY BIRKET FOSTER.... "Firmly builded with rafters of oak, the house of the farmer ILLUSTRATION VII.-DESIGNED BY JANE E. BENHAM... "Many a youth, as he knelt in the church and opened his missal, Fixed his eyes upon her as the saint of his deepest devotion." ILLUSTRATION IX.-DESIGNED BY BIRKET FOSTER..... 'There at the door they stood, with wondering eyes to behold him Take in his leathern lap the hoof of the horse as a plaything." ILLUSTRATION VI.-DESIGNED BY BIRKET FOSTER........ "Farther down, on the slope of the hill, was the well with its moss-grown Bucket, fastened with iron, and near it a trough for the horses." ILLUSTRATION X.-DESIGNED BY BIRKET FOSTER "Oft in the barns they climbed to the populous nests on the rafters." ILLUSTRATION XI.-DESIGNED BY BIRKET FOSTER... "Foremost, bearing the bell, Evangeline's beautiful heifer, Proud of her snow-white hide, and the ribbon that waved from her ILLUSTRATION XII.-DESIGNED BY BIRKET FOSTER... "Late, with the rising moon, returned the wains from the marshes, Laden with briny hay, that filled the air with its odor." ILLUSTRATION XIII.-DESIGNED BY JOHN GILBERT.................. "Not so thinketh the folk in the village,' said warmly, the blacksmith, Shaking his head, as in doubt." ILLUSTRATION XIV.-DESIGNED BY JOHN GILBERT. "More than a hundred Children's children rode on his knee, and heard his great watch tick." ILLUSTRATION XV.-DESIGNED BY JOHN GILBERT..... ILL PAGE. 26 TRATION XVII.-DESIGNED BY JANE E. BENHAM.. ILLUSTRATION XVIII.-DESIGNED BY BIRKET FOSTER.. "Now from the country around, from the farms and the neighboring hamlets, Came in their holiday dresses the blithe Acadian peasants." ILLUSTRATION XIX.-DESIGNED BY BIRKET FOSTER.... "Merrily, merrily whirled the wheels of the dizzying dances Under the orchard-trees and down the path to the meadows." ILLUSTRATION XX.-DESIGNED BY BIRKET FOSTER... "Without, in the churchyard, Waited the women. They stood by the graves, and hung on the Garlands of autumn-leaves and evergreens fresh from the forest." ILLUSTRATION XXI.-DESIGNED BY JANE E. BENHAM "Then, all-forgetful of self, she wandered into the village, Cheering with looks and words the disconsolate hearts of the women." 27 ILLUSTRATION XXIV.-DESIGNED BY BIRKET FOSTER... "Suddenly rose from the south a light, as in autumn the blood-red 31 34 36 38 39 40 41 45 ILLUSTRATION XXII.-DESIGNED BY JANE E. BENHAM... "Lowing they waited, and long, at the well-known bars of the farmyardWaited and looked in vain for the voice and the hand of the milkmaid." 47 50 51 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. ILLUSTRATION XXV.-DESIGNED BY BIRKET FOSTER... "Having the glare of the burning village for funeral torches, But without bell or book, they buried the farmer of Grand-Pré." ILLUSTRATION XXVI.—DESIGNED BY BIRKET FOSTER. "Then recommenced once more the stir and noise of embarking; And with the ebb of that tide the ships sailed out of the harbor." ILLUSTRATION XXVII.-DESIGNED BY JANE E. BENHAM.. "Long among them was seen a maiden who waited and wandered, Lowly and meek in spirit, and patiently suffering all things." ILLUSTRATION XXX.-DESIGNED BY BIRKET FOSTER..... "Lovely the moonlight was as it glanced and gleamed on the water." ILLUSTRATION XXXI.-DESIGNED BY BIRKET FOSTER... ILLUSTRATION XXXIII.-DESIGNED BY BIRKET FOSTER.. ILLUSTRATION XXVIII.-DESIGNED BY BIRKET FOSTER.... "Into the golden stream of the broad and swift Mississippi, Floated a cumbrous boat, that was rowed by Acadian boatmen." ILLUSTRATION XXIX.-DESIGNED BY BIRKET FOSTER....... "Now through rushing chutes, among green islands, where plume-like Cotton-trees nodded their shadowy crests, they swept with the current." ILLUSTRATION XXXII.-DESIGNED BY BIRKET FOSTER... Safely their boat was moored; and scattered about on the greensward, Tired with their midnight toil, the weary travelers slumbered." ILLUSTRATION XXXIV.-DESIGNED BY BIRKET FOSTER "The house itself was of timbers Hewn from the cypress-tree, and carefully fitted together." ILLUSTRATION XXXV.-DESIGNED BY BIRKET FOSTER... "Suddenly out of the grass the long white horns of the cattle ILLUSTRATION XXXVI.-DESIGNED BY JANE E. BENHAM... 66 'Long live Michael,' they cried, 'our brave Acadian minstrel !' As they bore him aloft in triumphal procession." ILLUSTRATION XXXVII.-DESIGNED BY BIRKET FOSTER... "With horses, and guides, and companions, Gabriel left the village, and took the road of the prairies." ILLUSTRATION XXXVIII.-Designed by BiRKET FOSTER.................. "Into this wonderful land, at the base of the Ozark Mountains, Gabriel far had entered, with hunters and trappers behind him." |
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