PREFACE



THE reader will, perhaps, bear in mind that
"On Newfound River" does not pretend to be
a Novel; but is on its face a "Story,"-a Love-
Story if you will-of simple Country Life in Old
Virginia. The "setting" is wholly that of the
Country, the surroundings are all those of a life
far from cities, the incidents are, for the most
part, those little commonplace events which
might have taken place in a rural neighborhood
before the war, where the gentry ruled in a sort
of manorial manner and their poorer neighbors
bore a relation to them part retainer, part
friend.
  In preparing a new edition for the press, the
author has enlarged the work by certain addi-
tions to the Story, with a view to making it