The name of Ellen Key has for years been a target for attacks of various kinds. Friends have in connection with the issues that have arisen in regard to the influence of her work become enemies and friction has been caused in many homes. Her ideals and her purposes have been misquoted and misinterpreted until the very convictions for which she stood have been twisted so as to appear to be the evils that she was attempting to combat. Her critics, not content with decrying and distorting the message that she had to give to the world, have even attacked her personal character; and as the majority of these had no direct knowledge in the matter, strange rumors and fancies have been spread abroad about her life. The readers of her books, who are now to be counted throughout the world by the hundreds of thousands, who desire to know the truth about this much discussed Swedish author, will be interested in this critical study by Louise Hamilton. The author is one who has been intimate with Ellen Key since her youth. She is herself the wife of the founder of the People’s Hospital in Stockholm, where for over twenty years Ellen Key taught and lectured. The volume gives an admirable survey of the purpose and character of Ellen Key’s teachings and of her books. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ “Packed with information about actual present-day business conditions and methods.”—REVIEW OF REVIEWS. * * * * * The American Business Woman A Guide for the Investment, Preservation and Accumulation of Property, Containing Full Explanations and Illustrations of all Necessary Methods of Business By John Howard Cromwell, Ph.B., LL.B. Counsellor-at-Law _Second Revised Edition. Octavo. 392 pages. $2.00 net. By mail, $2.20_ “Mr. Cromwell’s book is without doubt one of the valuable publications of the year ... thoroughly well written and carefully thought out.... Fascinating as is the subject of mortgages, it is necessarily but one phase of the book.... The book, as before stated, is extremely valuable, and will be found a good investment, not only for women for whom it was primarily intended, but for many men.”—_New York Times._ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ “The most complete and compact study that Has yet been made of the evolution of women’s rights.”—_N. Y. Evening Globe._ * * * * * A Short History of Women’s Rights From the days of Augustus to the Present Time With Special Reference to England and the United States By Eugene A. Hecker Master in the Roxbury Latin School, Author of “The Teaching of Latin in Secondary Schools”