or 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.... Altogether, Mrs. Campbell's book is a notable
contribution to the labor literature of the day, and will
undoubtedly enlist sympathy for the cause of the oppressed
working-women whose stories do their own pleading.--_Springfield
Union._

It is good to see a new book by Helen Campbell. She has written
several for the cause of working-women, and now comes her latest
and best work, called "Prisoners of Poverty," on women wage-workers
and their lives. It is compiled from a series of papers written for
the Sunday edition of a New York paper. The author is well
qualified to write on these topics, having personally investigated
the horrible situation of a vast army of working-women in New
York,--a reflection of the same conditions that exist in all large
cities.

It is glad tidings to hear that at last a voice is raised for the
woman side of these great labor questions that are seething