Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale

Ida Glenwood, (The Blind Bard of Michigan.)
BY
The Blind Bard of Michigan.
AUTHOR OF
THE FATAL SECRET, KATE WYMANS AND THE FORGER'S DAUGHTER, BLACK FRANCE, ETC.
EDITED BY MAJOR JOSEPH KIRKLAND.
CHICAGO: DIBBLE PUBLISHING CO. 1892.
COPYRIGHT 1892 BY DIBBLE PUBLISHING CO. CHICAGO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

It matters but little to the average reader whether a book be wholly historical or purely imaginary if it be of sufficient interest to hold the attention in a pleasurable excitement to its close.
There are those however, who will be glad to know that the following work was wrought out of historical facts gleaned from a large parcel of letters written by a son while a soldier in the army of the rebellion, to his widowed mother, then in Springfield, Mass.