"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_,
ROBERTS BROTHERS. BOSTON.
End of Project Gutenberg's Prisoners of Poverty Abroad, by Helen Campbell
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