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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 William, Sir John, Guy Johnson, and Colonel Claus; the notorious Butlers, father and son; the Schuylers, Van Rensselaers, and others

The first roan, was followed by the second, The Maid-at-Arms The third in order is not coan pretended to portray life on the baronial estate of Sir Willia trouble, the first discordant note struck in the har House, so, in The Maid-at-Arms, which followed in order, the author atte rumble of battle That romance dealt with the first serious split in the Iroquois Confederacy; it showed the Long House shattered though not fallen; the dereat 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 a

The third romance, as yet incomplete and unpublished, deals with the war-path and those who followed it, led by the landed gentry of Tryon County, and ends with the first solid blow delivered at the Long House, and the terrible punishment of the Great Confederacy

The present roical 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, May 26, 1904