It has been my wish by blending gold and alloy, fact and fancy, to fashion rings of romance that shall make real to us, near and dear to us, the heroes and heroines of colonial romance, the atmos phere they breathed, the time in which they lived. That time, that atmosphere, those heroes and hero ines are not so far removed but that we should feel their kinship; and it is with the hope that this kinship may be realized that I offer these Ro mances of Colonial Days.