CONTENTS.CHAPTERPAGEIntroductioniiiI.Lowell Sixty Years Ago1II.Child-Life in the Lowell Cotton Mills25III.The Little Mill-Girl’s Alma Mater40IV.The Characteristics of the Early Factory Girls60V.Characteristics(Continued)83VI.The Lowell Offeringand its Writers97VII.The Lowell Offering(Continued)109VIII.Brief Biographies of some of the Writers forThe Lowell Offering132IX.The Cotton Factory of To-day202