OR,

THE TEST OF THE LONE ISLE.

BY

MRS. EMMA D. E. N. SOUTHWORTH.

AUTHOR OF "THE WIDOW'S SON," "THE LOST HEIRESS,'

"THE BRIDE

46 HAUNTED HOMESTEAD,"
OF LLEWELLYN," "RETRIBUTION," "THE FORTUNE SEeker,'
"ALLWORTH ABBEY," "THE FATAL MARRIAGE,"
""THE MISSING BRIDE,"
"THE DISCARDED DAUGHTER,' "THE BRIDAL EVE," TWO SISTERS,'
“VIVIA,” "LADY OF THE ISLE," "THE GIPSY'S PROPHECY,"
"THE MOTHER-IN-LAW," "THE WIFE'S VICTORY,' "INDIA,"
"THE THREE BEAUTIES,"

"THE CURSE OF CLIFTON,'

DESERTED WIFE, "LOVE'S LABOR WON,"

"The island lies far, far away;'
Around its solitary shore,
Of craggy rock and sandy bay,
No sound but ocean's roar,

Save where the bold wild sea-bird makes her home,

Her shrill cry coming through the sparkling foam."-R. H. DANA.

"Henceforth she has a helper, one who knows

The woman's cause is man's; they rise, or sink
Together, dwarfed, or god-like, bond, or free."-TENNYSON.

PHILADELPHIA:

T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS;

306 CHESTNUT STREET.

AL 3475.2.3 7

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by

T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

MRS. EMMA D. E. N. SOUTHWORTH'S WORKS.

Each Work is complete in one large duodecimo volume.

FALLEN PRIDE; OR, THE MOUNTAIN GIRL'S LOVE.
THE HAUNTED HOMESTEAD.

THE THREE BEAUTIES.

THE WIFE'S VICTORY.

THE MOTHER-IN-LAW.

THE WIDOW'S SON.
ALLWORTH ABBEY.

RETRIBUTION. A TALE OF PASSION.
THE GIPSY'S PROPHECY.
BRIDE OF LLEWELLYN.

THE FORTUNE-SEEKER.

THE DESERTED WIFE.
THE LOST HEIRESS.
FAIR PLAY.

INDIA; OR, THE PEARL OF PEARL RIVER.
THE FATAL MARRIAGE.

LOVE'S LABOR WON.

THE MISSING BRIDE.

LADY OF THE ISLE.

THE TWO SISTERS.

VIVIA; OR, THE SECRET OF POWER.

THE CURSE OF CLIFTON.

THE DISCARDED DAUGHTER.

HOW HE WON HER.

THE BRIDAL EVE.

THE VICTIM BRIDE.

Price of each, $1.75 in Cloth; or $1.50 in Paper Cover.

Above books are for sale by all Booksellers. Copies of any or all of the above books, will be sent to any one, to any place, postage pre-paid, on receipt of their price by the Publishers,

T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS,

306 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA.

UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

MAR 5 1941

TO YOU,

MY DEAR, ONLY DAUGHTER,

LOTTIE;

THIS WORK IS DEDICATED,

WITH

MY HEART'S GREAT LOVE.

PROSPECT COTTAGE,

GEORGETOWN, D. C.,

DECEMBER, 1868.

PREFACE.

IN offering this work in book form to my readers, I call it Fair Play, with some reference to "Foul Play," and for these reasons:

This work was first published in the New York Ledger, and copied in the London Journal, in 1865 and 1866.

"Foul Play" is first published in 1868, and with so much resemblance to this work, as might lead any reader of both stories to suspect a plagiarism on the one hand or the other.

This resemblance may be found in that which has been called "the most beautiful and original part" of each story, and which describes the strange situation of the ship-wrecked lovers on the solitary island-a situation, I thought, quite unique in literature.

Now, while I utterly disclaim all intention to charge the distinguished authors of the last pub

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