"This is one of the few books of joyful information that are available to the reader to-day. It is thoroughly informing; it reveals not only details of management, but also the personal reactions of employers and employés. Improvement in workshops and surroundings, safety for the workers, health for every man, sobriety, good homes, shorter hours and better work, sufficient wages, experiments in justice, scientific management--these are some of the topics that Miss Tarbell treats with fullness and accuracy and with much of the lively optimism that is based on facts and figures. The movement for the employment of higher ideals in business is bigger than the average man realizes, and Miss Tarbell's book is a book to read."--North American Review. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BY THE SAME AUTHOR The Ways of Women Cloth, 12mo, $1.25 What are the activities and responsibilities of the average normal woman? This is the question which Miss Tarbell considers in this book. Despite the change in the outward habits, conduct, points of view, and ways of doing things, which marks the present age, Miss Tarbell maintains that certain great currents of life still persist. To consider that these are lost in the new world of machines and systems is, she holds, only to study the surface. The relation to society and to the future of the old and common pursuits of the woman is her theme, which at once makes the volume appear as a sort of supplement to her previous work, "The business of Being a Woman." "A book of hopeful, cheerful thoughts ... a very human book, worthy of careful reading." --Literary Digest. "A striking exposition of present-day woman's ways." --Philadelphia North American. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BY THE SAME AUTHOR The Business of Being a Woman By IDA M. TARBELL