What is the business of being a woman? Is it something incompatible with the free and joyous development of one's talents? Is there no place in it for economic independence? Has it no essential relation to the world's movements? Is it an episode which drains the forces and leaves a dreary wreck behind? Is it something that cannot be organized into a profession of dignity and opportunity for service and for happiness? These are some of the questions Miss Tarbell answers. She has treated on broad lines the political, social, and economic issues of to-day as they affect woman. Suffrage, Woman and the Household, The Home as an Educational Center, the Homeless Daughter, Friendless Youth, and the Irresponsible Woman--these but suggest the train of Miss Tarbell's thought; she has made out of them, because of their bearing on all of her sex, a powerful, unified narrative. Life of Abraham Lincoln With 32 full-page illustrations, cloth, 8vo, two volumes, $5.00 Drawn from original sources, and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished. Miss Tarbell's "Life of Abraham Lincoln" is now enjoying a greater popularity and a higher ranking than in any previous year of its publication. Alone, it was sufficient in accomplishment to place her in the leading rank of biographers, and it promises to hold indefinitely its undisputed position. "Miss Tarbell's work presents a portrait that no student of history can afford to miss."--Brooklyn Eagle. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BY THE SAME AUTHOR The Tariff in Our Times A Study of Fifty Years' Experience with the Doctrines of Protection. BY IDA M. TARBELL 12mo, $1.50 "There is scarcely a great event or a public man of importance in the period covered that does not figure directly or indirectly in this story. The result is a narrative full of dramatic situations, big movements, strenuous fighting, and fine characters."--Philadelphia North American. "An interesting and exhaustive treatise on the subject of tariff and tariff making."--American Banker. "... No single volume has brought out the facts and interests connected with tariff and tariff tinkering as does this book in which the story is told in narrative form."--Boston Transcript. "Miss Tarbell has written a book of high value and great timeliness, in her history of the tariff.... Every thoughtful student of the subject should read Miss Tarbell's book, whether he believes in tariff for revenue only, high protection, or free trade."--Wall Street Journal. He Knew Lincoln