indolence. Our girls need a chance to do independent work, to study
practical business, to fill their minds with other thoughts than the
petty doings of neighbors. A What-to-do Club is one step toward higher
village life. It is one step toward disinfecting a neighborhood of the
poisonous gossip which floats like a pestilence around localities
which ought to furnish the most desirable homes in our
country.'"--_The Chautauquan._

"'The What-to-do Club' is a delightful story for girls, especially for
New England girls, by Helen Campbell. The heroine of the story is
Sybil Waite, the beautiful, resolute, and devoted daughter of a
broken-down but highly educated Vermont lawyer. The story shows how
much it is possible for a well-trained and determined young woman to
accomplish when she sets out to earn her own living, or help others.
Sybil begins with odd jobs of carpentering, and becomes an artist so
woodwork. She is first jeered at, then admired, respected, and finally
loved by a worthy man. The book closes pleasantly with John claiming
Sybil as his own. The labors of Sybil and her friends and of the New
Jersey 'Busy Bodies,' which are said to be actual facts, ought to
encourage many young women to more successful competition in the
battles of life.'"--_Golden Rule._

"In the form of a story, this book suggests ways in which young women
may make money at home, with practical directions for so doing.
Stories with a moral are not usually interesting, but this one is an
exception to the rule. The narrative is lively, the incidents probable
and amusing, the characters well-drawn, and the dialects various and
characteristic. Mrs. Campbell is a natural storyteller, and has the
gift of making a tale interesting. Even the recipes for pickles and
preserves, evaporating fruits, raising poultry, and keeping bees, are
made poetic and invested with a certain ideal glamour, and we are
thrilled and absorbed by an array of figures of receipts and
expenditures, equally with the changeful incidents of flirtation,
courtship, and matrimony. Fun and pathos, sense and sentiment, are
mingled throughout, and the combination has resulted in one of the
brightest stories of the season."--_Woman's Journal._

_Sold by all booksellers. Mailed, post-paid, by publishers_,

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY, BOSTON.

MRS. H