BY THE SAME AUTHOR

SENATOR NORTH
Thirtieth Thousand
THE CALIFORNIANS
Fourth Edition
PATIENCE SPARHAWK
Second Edition
THE DOOMSWOMAN
New Edition

The
Aristocrats

Being the impressions of the Lady
Helen Pole during her sojourn
in The Great North Woods
as spontaneously recorded in
her letters to her friend
in North Britain the
Countess of Edge
and Ross

By
GERTRUDE ATHERTON

John Lane
LONDON—NEW YORK
1901

Copyright, 1901
By John Lane
Second Edition