to share the author's
enthusiasm before getting half-way through the book must possess a
taste satiated and depraved by indulgence in exciting and sensational
fiction. The earnestness of the author's presentation of essentially
great purposes lends intensity to her narrative. Succeeding as she
does in impressing us strongly with her convictions, there is nothing
of dogmatism in their preaching. But the suggestiveness of every
chapter is backed by pictures of real life."--_New York World._

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PRISONERS OF POVERTY.

WOMEN WAGE-WORKERS: THEIR TRADES AND THEIR LIVES.

BY HELEN CAMPBELL,

AUTHOR OF "THE WHAT-TO-DO CLUB," "MRS. HERNDON'S INCOME," "MISS MELINDA'S
OPPORTUNITY," ETC.

16mo. Cloth. $1.00. Paper, 50 cents.

The author writes earnestly and warmly, but without prejudice, and her
volume is an eloquent plea for the amelioration of the evils with
which she deals. In the present importance into which the labor
question generally has loomed, this volume is a timely and valuable
contribution to its literature, and merits wide reading and careful
thought.--_Saturday Evening Gazette._

She has given us a most effective picture of the condition of New York
working-women, because she has brought to the study of the subject not
only great care but uncommon aptitude. She has made a close personal
investigation, extending apparently over a long time; she has had the
penetration to search many queer and dark corners which are not often
thought of by similar explorers; and we suspect that, unlike too many
philanthropists, she has the faculty of winning confidence and
extracting the truth. She is sympathetic, but not a sentimentalist;
she appreciates exactness in facts and figures; she can see both sides
of a question, and she has abundant common sense.--_New York Tribune._

Helen Campbell's "Prisoners of Poverty" is a striking example of the
trite phrase that "truth is stranger than fiction." It is a series of
pictures of the lives of women wage-workers in New York, based on the
minutest personal inquiry and observation. No work of fiction has ever
presented more startling pictures, and, indeed, if they occurred in a
novel would at once be stamped as a figment of the brain....