lton describing the
fortunate sale of Roger's painting of "The Factory Bell" sends a tear
of sympathetic joy to the reader's eye. Roger Berkeley was a young
American art student in Paris, called home by the mortal sickness of
his mother, and detained at home by the spendthriftness of his father
and the embarrassment that had overtaken the family affairs through
the latter cause. A concealed mortgage on the old homestead, the
mysterious disappearance of a package of bonds intended for Roger's
student use, and the paralytic incapacity of the father to give the
information which his conscience prompted him to give, have a share in
the development of the story. Roger is obliged for the time to abandon
his art work, and takes a situation in a mill; and this trying
diversion from his purpose is his "probation." How he profits by this
loss is shown in the result. The mill-life gives Mrs. Campbell
opportunity to express herself characteristically in behalf of
down-trodden "labor." The whole story is simple, natural, sweet, and
tender; and the figures of Connie, poor little cripple, and Miss
Medora Flint, angular and snappish domestic, lend picturesqueness to
its group of characters.--_Literary World_.

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LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY, BOSTON.

MISS MELINDA'S OPPORTUNITY.

A STORY.

BY HELEN CAMPBELL,

AUTHOR OF "THE WHAT-TO-DO CLUB," "MRS. HERNDON'S INCOME," "PRISONERS OF
POVERTY."

16mo. Cloth, price, $1.00; paper covers, 50 cents.

"Mrs. Helen Campbell has written 'Miss Melinda's Opportunity' with a
definite purpose in view, and this purpose will reveal itself to the
eyes of all of its philanthropic readers. The true aim of the story is
to make life more real and pleasant to the young girls who spend the
greater part of the day toiling in the busy stores of New York. Just
as in the 'What-to-do Club' the social level of village life was
lifted several grades higher, so are the little friendly circles of
shop-girls made to enlarge and form clubs in 'Miss Melinda's
Opportunity.'"--_Boston Herald._

"'Miss Melinda's Opportunity,' a story by Helen Campbell, is in a
somewhat lighter vein than are the earlier books of this clever
author; but it is none the less interesting and none the less
realistic. The plot is