The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking: Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in ClassesCampbell, Helen
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The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking: Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes
Campbell, Helen
Cooking; Home economics
"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._
_Sold by all booksellers. Mailed, post-paid, on receipt of price, by the
publishers_,
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY, BOSTON.
PRISONERS OF POVERTY.
WOMEN WAGE-WORKERS: THEIR TRADES AND THEIR LIVES.
BY HELEN CAMPBELL,
AUTHOR OF "THE WHAT-TO-DO CLUB," "MRS. HERNDON'S INCOME," "MISS MELINDA'S
OPPORTUNITY," ETC.
16mo. Cloth. $1.00. Paper, 50 cents.
The author writes earnestly and warmly, but without prejudice, and her
volume is an eloquent plea for 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._
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