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By Jane G. Austin
STANDISH OF STANDISH. A Novel. 16mo, $1.25.
BETTY ALDEN. A Novel. 16mo, $1.25.
A NAMELESS NOBLEMAN. A Novel. 16mo, $1.25; paper, 50 cents.
DR. LE BARON AND HIS DAUGHTERS. A Novel. 16mo, $1.25.
THE DESMOND HUNDRED. A Novel. 16mo, $1.00; paper, 50 cents.
NANTUCKET SCRAPS. Being the Experiences of an Off-Islander In Season andOut of Season. 16mo, $1.50.
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY, Boston and New York.
Standish of Standish
A Story of the Pilgrims
By
Jane G. Austin
AUTHOR OF "A NAMELESS NOBLEMAN," "THE DESMOND HUNDRED,"
"MRS. BEAUCHAMP BROWN," "NANTUCKET SCRAPS,"
"MOON FOLK," ETC., ETC.
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1892
Copyright, 1889,
By JANE G. AUSTIN.
All rights reserved.
ELEVENTH EDITION.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.
Dedication.
TO THE MEMORY OF MY DEAR BROTHER,
JOHN A. GOODWIN,
WHO MORE THAN ANY MAN HAS CONSERVED FOR OUR DELIGHT
THE STORY OF THOSE PILGRIM FATHERS
"WITHOUT WHOSE LIVES OURS HAD NOT BEEN."
A PREFATORY NOTE.
The history of the Old Colony includes, among some very stern facts, adeal of sweet and tender romance, hitherto hardly known except to thosewho have learned it at their mother's knee.
But in these days many persons seem disposed to pause for a moment inthe eager race after the golden fruits of the Pilgrims' husbandry, andto look curiously back at the spot where the seed was sown.
To such I offer this story of Myles Standish,The-Sword-of-the-White-Men, the hero, who not for gain, not fromnecessity, not even from religious zeal, but purely in the knightlyfervor of his blood, forsook home, and heritage, and glory, andambition, to company that helpless band of exiles, and to be theGreat-Heart of their Pilgrimage to the City that they sought.
To such students I will promise that they shall not be misled as tofacts, though these be strung upon a slender thread of romance; and Iwill beg them to ground themselves well upon the solid Pilgrim Rock,that they may the better understand the story of Lazarus LeBaron, son ofA Nameless Nobleman, to be offered them in due time, unless Time shallbe no more for the Author.
Boston, October, 1889.
JANE G. AUSTIN.<