tisfaction."--_Saturday
Gazette._

"The best book that Helen Campbell has yet produced is her latest
story, 'Miss Melinda's Opportunity,' which is especially strong in
character-drawing, and its life sketches are realistic and full of
vigor, with a rich vein of humor running through them. Miss Melinda
is a dear lady of middle life, who has finally found her
opportunity to do a great amount of good with her ample pecuniary
means by helping those who have the disposition to help themselves.
The story of how some bright and energetic girls who had gone to
New York to earn their living put a portion of their earnings into
a common treasury, and provided themselves with a comfortable home
and good fare for a very small sum per week, is not only of lively
interest, but furnishes hints for other girls in similar
circumstances that may prove of great value. An unpretentious but
well-sustained plot runs through the book, with a happy ending, in
which Miss Melinda figures as the angel that she is."--_Home
Journal._

_Sold by all booksellers. Mailed, post-paid on receipt of price, by the
publishers_,

ROBERTS BROTHERS, BOSTON.

* * * * *

_Messrs. Roberts Brothers' Publications._

MRS. HERNDON'S INCOME.

A NOVEL.

BY HELEN CAMPBELL.

AUTHOR OF "THE WHAT-TO-DO CLUB."

One volume. 16mo. Cloth. $1.50

"Confirmed novel-leaders who have regarded fiction as created for
amusement and luxury alone, lay down this book with a new and
serious purpose in life. The social scientist reads it, and finds
the solution of many a tangled problem; the philanthropist finds in
it direction and counsel. A novel written with a purpose, of which
never for an instant does the author lose sight, it is yet
absorbing in its interest. It reveals the narrow motives and the
intrinsic selfishness of certain grades of social life; the
corruption of business methods; the 'false, fairy gold,' of
fashionable charities, and 'advanced' thought. Margaret Wentworth
is a typical New England girl, reflective, absorbed, full of
passionate and repressed intensity under a quiet and apparently
cold exterior. The events that group themselves about her life are
the natural result of such a character brought into contact with
real life. The book cannot be too widely read."--_B