At the War Office he was urging the Secretary to consent to our paroles, when the President entered. "It is my urgent wish," said he. The Secretary yielded; the order was given, and we were released. What we had waited for so many weeks was accomplished in a few moments by a Providential ordering of circ.u.mstances.

_7th._--I.N. came again last evening bringing our paroles. The preliminary arrangements are being made, and we are to start this afternoon for New York.

_Note._ Rising from my sick-bed to undertake this journey, which lasted through the night, its fatigues overcame me, and upon my arrival in New York I was seized with delirium from which I only recovered after many weeks, through the mercy and favour of Him, who in all this trial had been our guide and strength and comfort.

THE END

The following pages contain advertis.e.m.e.nts of a few of the Macmillan books on kindred subjects

The Heart of the Puritan

By ELIZABETH DEERING HANSCOM

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.

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The Tree of Heaven

By MAY SINCLAIR

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 to be a vindication of the present generation--the generation that was condemned as neurotic and decadent by common consent a little more than three years ago, but is now enduring the ordeal of the war with great singleness of heart. This theme, in Miss Sinclair's hands, a.s.sumes big proportions and gives her at the same time ample opportunity for character a.n.a.lysis, in which art she is equalled by few contemporary writers.

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Fairhope: The Annals of a Country Church

By EDGAR DEWITT JONES

Fairhope meeting-house is in the northermost country of Kentucky, in the midst of a populous farming community. In this book Mr. Jones, a life-long member of the community, tells the story of Fairhope meeting-house. The book is a remarkably sympathetic and appealing account of a phase of American rural life at a time when religion was always the uppermost topic in people's minds.

"Simple narratives of our people, our preachers, and the lights and shadows of our rural religious life"--is the author's modest description of his work. But this gives no hint of the book's peculiar charm. Those who love birds and stretches of green meadow, glimpses of lordly and high hills, the soil and the sincere life lived on it, will find here a genuine delight.

Above all is the interest in the preachers themselves. "There were giants in those days, and for the most part our ministers were good and n.o.ble men. Of their goodness and sincerity these annals bear witness!"

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Christine

By ALICE CHOLMONDELEY

"A book which is true in essentials--so real that one is tempted to doubt whether it is fiction at all--doubly welcome and doubly important.... It would be difficult indeed to find a book in which the state of mind of the German people is pictured so cleverly, with so much understanding and convincing detail.... Intelligent, generous, sweet-natured, broadminded, quick to see and to appreciate all that is beautiful either in nature or in art, rejoicing humbly over her own great gift, endowed with a keen sense of humour, Christine's is a thoroughly wholesome and lovable character. But charming as Christine's personality and her literary style both are, the main value of the book lies in its admirably lucid a.n.a.lysis of the German mind."--_New York Times._

"Absolutely different from preceding books of the war. Its very freedom and girlishness of expression, its very simplicity and open-heartedness, prove the truth of its pictures."--_New York World._

"A luminous story of a sensitive and generous nature, the spontaneous expression of one spirited, affectionate, ardently ambitious, and blessed with a sense of humour."--_Boston Herald._

"The next time some sentimental old lady of either s.e.x, who 'can't see why we have to send our boys abroad,' comes into your vision, and you know they are too unintelligent (they usually are) to understand a serious essay, try to trap them into reading 'Christine.' If you succeed we know it will do them good."--_Town and Country._

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