WHERE LOVE CONQUERS.


The Reckoning.

    By ROBERT W. CHAMBERS.
    The author's intention is to treat, in a series of four or five
romances, that part of the war for independence which particularly
affected the great landed families of northern New York, the
Johnsons, represented by Sir WV liam, Sir John, Guy Johnson, and
Colonel Claus; the notorious Butlers, father and son, the Schuvlers,
Van Rensselaers, and others.
   The first romance of the series, Cardigan, was followed by the
second, The Maid-at-Arms. The third, in order, is not completed.
The fourth is the present volume.
   As Cardigan pretended to portray life on the baronial estate of
Sir William Johnson, the first uneasiness concerning the coming
trouble, the first discordant note struck in the harmonious councils
of the Long House, so, in The MIaid-at-Arms, which followed in
order, the author attempted to paint a patroon family disturbed by
the approaching rumble of battle. 'hat romance dealt with the
first serious split in the Iroquois Confederacy; it showed the Long
House shattered thcugh not fallen; the demoralization and final
flight of the great landed families who remained loyal to the British
Crown; and it struck the key-note to the future attitude of the
Iroquois toward the patriots of the frontier-revenge for their
losses at the battle of Oriskany-and ended with the march of the
militia and continental troops on Saratoga.
   The third romance, as yet incomplete and unpublished, deals
with the war-path and those who followed it led by the landed
gentry of Tryon County; and ends with the first solid blow de-
livered at the Long House, and the terrible punishment of the
Great Confederacy.
   The present romance, the fourth in chronological order, picks
up the thread at that point.
   The author is not conscious of having taken any liberties with
history in preparing a framework of facts for a mantle of romance.
                                    ROBERT W. CHAMBERS.
  NEW YORK, Mfay z6, o904.



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