By GEORGE MAKEPEACE TOWLE.
Heroes and Martyrs of Invention.
Vasco da Gama; His Voyages and Adventures.
Pizarro; His Adventures and Conquests.
Magellan; or, The First Voyage Round the World.
Marco Polo; His Travels and Adventures.
Raleigh; His Voyages and Adventures.
Drake; The Sea King of Devon.
By CAPT. CHARLES W. HALL.
Adrift in the Ice Fields.
By DR. ISAAC I. HAYES.
Cast Away in the Cold; An Old Man's Story of a Young Man'sAdventures.
By W. H. G. KINGSTON.
The Adventures of Dick Onslow among the Redskins.
Ernest Bracebridge; or, School Boy Days.
By JAMES D. McCABE JR.
Planting the Wilderness; or, The Pioneer Boys.
By DR. C. H. PEARSON.
The Cabin on the Prairie.
The Young Pioneers of the Northwest.
By JAMES DE MILLE.
The Lily and the Cross; A Tale of Acadia.
By F. G. ARMSTRONG.
The Young Middy: or, The Perilous Adventures of a BoyOfficer.
By R. M. BALLANTYNE.
The Life Boat; A Tale of Our Coast Heroes.
Sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of price.
Lee and Shepard, Publishers, Boston
The first Money. Page 29.
THE WHISPERING PINE SERIES.
THE
TURNING OF THE TIDE;
OR,
RADCLIFFE RICH AND HIS PATIENTS.
BY
ELIJAH KELLOGG,
AUTHOR OF "LION BEN," "CHARLIE BELL," "THE ARK OF ELM ISLAND," "THE BOY
FARMERS," "THE YOUNG SHIP-BUILDERS," "THE HARD-SCRABBLE," "ARTHUR
BROWN," "THE YOUNG DELIVERERS," "THE CRUISE OF THE CASCO,"
"THE CHILD OF THE ISLAND GLEN," "JOHN GODSOE'S LEGACY,"
"THE SPARK OF GENIUS," "THE SOPHOMORES OF
RADCLIFFE," "THE WHISPERING PINE,"
"WINNING HIS SPURS," ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
BOSTON 1892
LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS
10 MILK STREET NEXT "THE OLD SOUTH MEETING HOUSE"
NEW YORK CHAS. T. DILLINGHAM
718 AND 720 BROADWAY
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873,
By LEE AND SHEPARD,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
PREFACE.
A distinguished professor of Mathematics in a New England college waswont to remark to the Freshman class when meeting them for the firsttime at recitation, "that every person is as lazy as he can be." Howeverwe may demur to this sweeping assertion, it is doubtless true that morepersons fail in life through indolence and the absence of appropriateand wholesome stimulus than from lack of capacity to become useful andeven distinguished.
Misfortune, undesirable as it may seem, nevertheless furnishes aneffective test of character, for, while the effeminate nature of laxfibre crumbles and is disintegrated beneath the pressure, the manlierspirit, like Dannemora iron