realized by the serial
and book publication of "The Sturdy Oak" will be devoted to the Suffrage
Cause. But the novel itself is first of all a very human story of
American life today. It neither unduly nor unfairly emphasizes the
question of equal suffrage, and it should appeal to all lovers of good
fiction.

Therefore, pausing only to wipe the beads of perspiration from our
brows, we urge every one to buy this book!

ELIZABETH JORDAN.

NEW YORK.

_November_, 1917. CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. BY SAMUEL MERWIN

II. BY HARRY LEON WILSON

III. BY FANNIE HURST

IV. BY DOROTHY CANFIELD

V. BY KATHLEEN NORRIS

VI. BY HENRY KITCHELL WEBSTER

VII. BY ANNE O'HAGAN

VIII. BY MARY HEATON VORSE

IX. BY ALICE DUER MILLER

X. BY ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD

XI. BY MARJORIE BENTON COOK

XII. BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE

XIII. BY MARY AUSTIN

XIV. BY LEROY SCOTT ILLUSTRATIONS

"Nobody ever means that a woman really can't get along without a man's
protection, because look at the women who do."

It was hard on the darling old boy to come home to Miss Emelene and the
cat and Eleanor and Alys every night!

"You mean because she's a suffragist? You sent her away for _that!_ Why,
really, that's _tyranny!_"

Across the way, Mrs. Herrington, the fighting blood of five generations
of patriots roused in her, had reinstated the Voiceless Speech.

PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS

_George Remington_... Aged twenty-six; newly married. Recently returned
to his home town, New York State, to take up the practice of law.
Politically ambitious, a candidate for District Attorney. Opposed to
woman suffrage.

_Genevieve_... His wife, aged twenty-three, graduate of Smith. Devoted
to George; her ideal being to share his every thought.

_Betty Sheridan_... A friend of Genevieve. Very pretty; one of the first
families, well-to-do but in search of economic independence. Working as
stenographer in George's office; an ardent Suffragist.

_Penfield Evans_... Otherwise "Penny," George's partner, in love with
Betty. Neutral on the subject of Suffrage.

_Alys Brewster-Smith_... Cousin of George, once removed; thirty-three,
a married woman by profession, but temporarily widowed. Anti-suffragist.
One Angel Child aged five.

_Martin Jaffry_... Uncle to George, bachelor of uncertain age and
certain income. The widow's destined prey.

_Cousin Emelene_.... On Genevieve's side. Betw