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"'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. HERNDON'S INCOME.
A NOVEL.
BY HELEN CAMPBELL.
AUTHOR OF "THE WHAT-TO-DO CLUB."
One volume. 16mo. Cloth. $1.50.
"Confirmed novel-readers 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."--_Boston
Traveller._
"If the 'What-to-do Club' was clever, this is decidedly more so. It is
a powerful story, and is evidently written in some degree, we cannot
quite say how great a degree, from fact. The personages of the story
are very well drawn,--indeed, 'Amanda Briggs' is as good as anything
American fiction has produced. We fancy we could pencil on the margin
the real names of at least half the characters. It is a book for the
wealthy to read that they may know something that is required of them,
because it does not ignore the difficulties in their way, and
especially does not overlook the differences which social standing
puts between class and class. It is a deeply interesting story
considered as mere fiction, one of the best which has lately appeared.
We hope the authoress will go on in a path where she has shown herself
so capable."--_The Churchman._
"In Mrs. Campbell's novel we have a work that is not to be judged by
ordinary standards. The story holds the reader's interest by its
realistic pictures of the local life around us, by its constant and
progressive action, and by the striking dramatic quality of scenes and
incidents, described in a style clear, connected, and harmonious. The
novel-reader who is not taken up and made 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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