MRS. CAMPBELL’S BOOKS.THE WHAT-TO-DO CLUB.A Story for Girls. 16mo. $1.50.MRS. HERNDON’S INCOME.A Novel. 16mo. $1.50.MISS MELINDA’S OPPORTUNITY.A Story for Girls. 16mo. $1.00. (Paper, 50 cents.)PRISONERS OF POVERTY.Women Wage-workers, their Trades and their Lives. 12mo. $1.00. (Paper, 50 cents.)PRISONERS OF POVERTY ABROAD.16mo. $1.00. (Paper, 50 cents.)ROGER BERKELEY’S PROBATION.A Story. 12mo. $1.00. (Paper, 50 cents.)WOMEN WAGE-EARNERS.Their Past, their Present, and their Future. 16mo. $1.00.THE EASIEST WAY IN HOUSEKEEPING AND COOKING.Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes. A new revised edition. 16mo. $1.00.IN FOREIGN KITCHENS.With Choice Recipes from England, France, Germany, Italy, and the North. 50 cents.SOME PASSAGES IN THE PRACTICE OF DR. MARTHA SCARBOROUGH.16mo. $1.00.These books will be mailed, post-paid, on receipt of the price by the Publishers,LITTLE, BROWN, & COMPANY,254 Washington Street, Boston, Mass.Terms for quantities, or for class use, will be sent on application.MRS. HERNDON’S INCOME.A NOVEL.BY HELEN CAMPBELL.AUTHOR OF “THE WHAT-TO-DO CLUB.”One volume. 16mo. Cloth. $1.50.“Confirmed novel-readers who have regarded fiction as created for amusement and luxury alone, lay down this book with a new and serious purpose in life. The social scientist reads it, and finds the solution of many a tangled problem; the philanthropist finds in it direction and counsel. A novel written with a purpose, of which never for an instant does the author lose sight, it is yet absorbing in its interest. It reveals the narrow motives and the intrinsic selfishness of certain grades of social life; the corruption of business methods; the ‘false, fairy gold,’ of fashionable charities, and ‘advanced’ thought. Margaret Wentworth is a typical New England girl, reflective, absorbed, full of passionate and repressed intensity under a quiet and apparently cold exterior. The events that group themselves about her life are the natural result of such a character brought into contact with real life. The book cannot be too widely read.”—Boston Traveller.“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.MISS MELINDA’S OPPORTUNITY.A STORY.BY HELEN CAMPBELL,AUTHOR OF “THE WHAT-TO-DO CLUB,” “MRS. HERNDON’S INCOME,” “PRISONERS OF POVERTY.”16mo. Cloth, price, $1.00; paper covers, 50 cents.“Mrs. Helen Campbell has written ‘Miss Melinda’s Opportunity’ with a definite purpose in view, and this purpose will reveal itself to the eyes of all of its philanthropic readers. The true aim of the story is to make life more real and pleasant to the young girls who spend the greater part of the day toiling in the busy stores of New York. Just as in the ‘What-to-do Club’ the social level of village life was lifted several grades higher, so are the little friendly circles of shop-girls made to enlarge and form clubs in ‘Miss Melinda’s Opportunity.’”—Boston Herald.“‘Miss Melinda’s Opportunity,’ a story by Helen Campbell, is in a somewhat lighter vein than are the earlier books of this clever author; but it is none the less interesting and none the less realistic. The plot is unpretentious, and deals with the simplest and most conventional of themes: but the character-drawing is uncommonly strong, especially that of Miss Melinda, which is a remarkably vigorous and interesting transcript from real life, and highly finished to the slightest details. There is much quiet humor in the book, and it is handled with skill and reserve. Those who have been attracted to Mrs. Campbell’s other works will welcome the latest of them with pleasure and satisfaction.”—Saturday Gazette.“The best book that Helen Campbell has yet produced is her latest story, ‘Miss Melinda’s Opportunity,’ which is especially strong in character-drawing, and its life sketches are realistic and full of vigor, with a rich vein of humor running through them. Miss Melinda is a dear lady of middle life, who has finally found her opportunity to do a great amount of good with her ample pecuniary means by helping those who have the disposition to help themselves. The story of how some bright and energetic girls who had gone to New York to earn their living put a portion of their earnings into a common treasury, and provided themselves with a comfortable home and good fare for a very small sum per week, is not only of lively interest, but furnishes hints for other girls in similar circumstances that may prove of great value. An unpretentious but well-sustained plot runs through the book, with a happy ending, in which Miss Melinda figures as the angel that she is.”—Home Journal.Sold by all booksellers. Mailed, post-paid, on receipt of price, by the publishers,LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY,Boston.THE WHAT-TO-DO CLUB.A STORY FOR GIRLS.By Helen Campbell.16mo. Cloth. Price $1.50.“‘The What-to-do Club’ is an unpretending story. It introduces us to a dozen or more village girls of varying ranks. One has had superior opportunities; another exceptional training; two or three have been ‘away to school;’ some are farmers’ daughters; there is a teacher, two or three poor self-supporters,—in fact, about such an assemblage as any town between New York and Chicago might give us. But while there is a large enough company to furnish a delightful coterie, there is absolutely no social life among them.... Town and country need more improving, enthusiastic work to redeem them from barrenness and indolence. Our girls need a chance to do independent work, to study practical business, to fill their minds with other thoughts than the petty doings of neighbors. A What-to-do Club is one step toward higher village life. It is one step toward disinfecting a neighborhood of the poisonous gossip which floats like a pestilence around localities which ought to furnish the most desirable homes in our country.”—The Chautauquan.“‘The What-to-do Club’ is a delightful story for girls, especially for New England girls, by Helen Campbell. The heroine of the story is Sybil Waite, the beautiful, resolute, and devoted daughter of a broken-down but highly educated Vermont lawyer. The story shows how much it is possible for a well-trained and determined young woman to accomplish when she sets out to earn her own living, or help others. Sybil begins with odd jobs of carpentering, and becomes an artist in woodwork. She is first jeered at, then admired, and finally loved by a worthy man. The book closes pleasantly with John claiming Sybil as his own. The labors of Sybil and her friends and of the New Jersey ‘Busy Bodies,’ which are said to be actual facts, ought to encourage many young women to more successful competition in the battles of life.”—Golden Rule.“In the form of a story, this book suggests ways in which young women may make money at home, with practical directions for so doing. Stories with a moral are not usually interesting, but this one is an exception to the rule. The narrative is lively, the incidents probable and amusing, the characters well-drawn, and the dialects various and characteristic. Mrs. Campbell is a natural story-teller, and has the gift of making a tale interesting. Even the recipes for pickles and preserves, evaporating fruits, raising poultry, and keeping bees, are made poetic and invested with a certain ideal glamour, and we are thrilled and absorbed by an array of figures of receipts and expenditures, equally with the changeful incidents of flirtation, courtship, and matrimony. Fun and pathos, sense and sentiment, are mingled throughout, and the combination has resulted in one of the brightest stories of the season.”—Woman’s Journal.Sold by all booksellers. Mailed, post-paid, by publishers,LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY,Boston.SOME PASSAGES IN THE PRACTICE OF DR. MARTHA SCARBOROUGH.BY HELEN CAMPBELL.16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00.Besides being equal to Mrs. Campbell’s best work in the past, it is strikingly original in presenting the ethics of the body as imperiously claiming recognition in the radical cure of inebriety. It forces attention to the physical and spiritual value of foods, and weaves precedent and precept into one of the most beguiling stories of recent date.It is the gospel of good food, with the added influence of fresh air, sunlight, cleanliness, and physical exercise that occupy profitably the attention of Helen Campbell. Martha is a baby when the story begins, and a child not yet in her teens when the narrative comes to an end, but she has a salutary power over many lives. Her father is a wise country physician, who makes his chaise, in his daily progress about the hills, serve as his little daughter’s cradle and kindergarten. When she gets old enough to understand her expounds to her his views of the sins committed against hygiene, and his lessons sink into an appreciative mind. When he encounters particularly hard cases she applies his principles with unfailing logic, and is able to suggest helpful means of cure. The old doctor is delightfully sagacious in demonstrating how the confirmed pie-eater marries the tea inebriate, with the result in doughnut-devouring, dyspeptic, and consumptive offspring. “What did they die of?” asked little Martha, in the village graveyard; and her father answers solemnly, “Intemperance.” So Martha declares that she will be a “food doctor,” and later on she helps her father in saving several victims of strong drink. The book is one that should find hosts of earnest readers, for its admonitions are sadly needed, not in the country alone, but in the city, where, if better ideas of diet prevail, people have yet as a rule a long way to go before they attain the path of wisdom. Meanwhile it remains true, as Mrs. Campbell makes Dr. Scarborough declare, that the cabbage soup and black bread of the poorest French peasants are really better suited to the sustenance of healthy life than the “messes” that pass for food in many parts of rural New England.—The Beacon.Sold by all Booksellers. Mailed, post-paid, on receipt of price, by the publishers,LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY,Boston.ROGER BERKELEY’S PROBATION.A Story.BY HELEN CAMPBELL,Author of “Prisoners of Poverty,” “Mrs. Herndon’s Income,” “Miss Melinda’s Opportunity,” “The What-to-do Club,” etc.16mo, cloth, price, $1.00; paper, 50 cents.This story is on the scale of a cabinet picture. It presents interesting figures, natural situations, and warm colors. Written in a quiet key, it is yet moving, and the letter from Bolton describing the fortunate sale of Roger’s painting of “The Factory Bell” sends a tear of sympathetic joy to the reader’s eye. Roger Berkeley was a young American art student in Paris, called home by the mortal sickness of his mother, and detained at home by the spendthriftness of his father and the embarrassment that had overtaken the family affairs through the latter cause. A concealed mortgage on the old homestead, the mysterious disappearance of a package of bonds intended for Roger’s student use, and the paralytic incapacity of the father to give the information which his conscience prompted him to give, have a share in the development of the story. Roger is obliged for the time to abandon his art work, and takes a situation in a mill; and this trying diversion from his purpose is his “probation.” How he profits by this loss is shown in the result. The mill-life gives Mrs. Campbell opportunity to express herself characteristically in behalf of down-trodden “labor.” The whole story is simple, natural, sweet, and tender; and the figures of Connie, poor little cripple, and Miss Medora Flint, angular and snappish domestic, lend picturesqueness to its group of characters.—Literary World.Sold by all Booksellers. Mailed, postpaid, on receipt of price, by the Publishers,LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY,Boston.PRISONERS OF POVERTY ABROADBy HELEN CAMPBELL,AUTHOR OF “THE WHAT-TO-DO-CLUB,” “PRISONERS OF POVERTY,” “ROGER BERKELEY’S PROBATION,” ETC.16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00; paper, 50 cents.Mrs. Helen Campbell, an occasional and valued contributor to this journal, and the author of “Prisoners of Poverty,” and other studies of social questions in this country, has offered in this book conclusions drawn from investigations on the same themes made abroad, principally in England or France. She has devoted personal attention and labor to the work, and, although much of what she describes has been depicted before by others, she tells her story with a freshness and an earnestness which give it exceptional interest and value. Her volume is one of testimony. She does not often attempt to philosophize, but to state facts as they are, so that they may plead their own cause. She puts before the reader a series of pictures, vividly drawn, but carefully guarded from exaggeration or distortion, that he may form his own opinions.—Congregationalist.Can life be worth living to the hordes of miserable women who have to work from fifteen to eighteen hours a day for a wage of from twenty-five to thirty-five or forty cents? And what have all the study of political economy, all the writing of treatises about labor, all the Parliamentary debates, all the blue books, all the philanthropic organizations, all the appeals to a common humanity, done, in half a century, for these victims of what is called modern civilization? Mrs. Campbell is by no means a sentimentalist. We know of no one who examines facts more coolly and practically, or who labors more earnestly to find the real causes for the continued depression of the labor market, as this horrible state of things is euphemistically termed. The conclusions she reaches are therefore sober and trustworthy.—New York Tribune.No work of fiction, however imaginative, could present more startling pictures than does this little book, which is sympathetic, but not sentimental, the result of personal investigation, and a most valuable contribution to the literature of the labor question.—Philadelphia Record.Mrs. Helen Campbell’s “Prisoners of Poverty,” a study of the condition of some of the lower strata of the laboring classes, particularly the working-women in the great cities of the United States, is supplemented with another volume, “Prisoners of Poverty Abroad,” in which the life of working-women of European cities, chiefly London and Paris, is depicted with equally graphic and terrible truthfulness.They are the result of fifteen months of travel and study, and are examples of Mrs. Campbell’s well-known methods of examination and description. They paint a horrible picture, but a truthful one, and no person of even ordinary sensibilities can read these books without experiencing a strong desire to do something to abate the monstrous injustice which they describe.—Good Housekeeping.Sold by all Booksellers. Mailed, post-paid, on receipt of the price, by the Publishers,LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY,Boston.In Foreign Kitchens.With Choice Recipes from England, France, Germany, Italy, and the North.By HELEN CAMPBELL,Author of “The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking,” “Prisoners of Poverty,” “The What-To-Do Club,” etc.16mo. Cloth. Price, 50 cents.While foreign cookbooks are accessible to all readers of foreign languages, and American ones have borrowed from them for what we know as “French cookery,” it is difficult often to judge the real value of a dish, or decide if experiment in new directions is worth while. The recipes in the following chapters, prepared originally forThe Epicure, of Boston, were gathered slowly, as the author found them in use, and are most of them taken from family recipe-books, as valued abroad as at home. So many requests have come for them in some more convenient form than that offered in the magazine, that the present shape has been determined upon; and it is hoped they may be a welcome addition to the housekeeper’s private store of rules for varying the monotony of the ordinary menu.Sold by all Booksellers. Mailed, postpaid, on receipt of the price by the Publishers,LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY,Boston.Women Wage-Earners.Their Past, their Present, and their Future. ByHelen Campbell. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00.The writer describes employments in the factory and home, compares the condition of women workers here and abroad, dwells upon the evils and abuses in factory life and in general trades, and points out remedies and gives suggestions. The book is an expansion of a prize monograph for the American Economic Association, for which a reward was given in 1891, expanded to nearly double its original size. An introduction to it is contributed by Prof. Richard T. Ely. Nowhere else could one get so much information on this subject in so small a space as in this book.—The School Journal.It includes such topics as factory labor, rise and growth of trades, labor bureaus, wage rates, and general conditions for women workers in England, on the Continent, and in the United States.The importance of this subject with which Mrs. Campbell deals is not easily overestimated. The present age is the era of woman, since whatever affects her receives a consideration never before given. For a long time the agitation in favor of woman was to remove barriers and open the way for her. The way has been opened and woman has entered scores of fields previously closed to her. The questions which now arise are as to her remuneration for her work in these fields, and the influence of women wage-earning on the family, the home, and society. These are questions not yet settled. Mrs. Campbell approaches their discussion in a spirit of fairness, and what she says is suggestive and helpful, if not conclusive. Her volume is a valuable contribution to the literature of social science.—Boston Advertiser.Such a work could never have been compiled for women except by a woman. It is itself a demonstration of the fact that women can handle the woman question as men alone cannot do, and that women can be raised and elevated from their present depressed condition only by organizations and trades unions of their own. Every woman should read this book carefully. She will gain from its perusal a breadth and depth of knowledge which will be of lasting value to her, and it will show her how great a work exists for women to do, in order to “make the world better.”—Woman’s Journal.It is a sober statement of facts by a thoughtful woman who has made a life-study of economic questions, both through the medium of books, and by personal investigation into the modern conditions of labor. The book covers the history of the wage question as affecting women, its present status, and its prospect for the future.—Worcester Spy.Her style is robust, orderly, precise, every page carrying the evidence of trained thought and of careful, conscientious research.—Public Opinion.LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., Publishers,254 Washington Street, Boston.No Woman can give herself to a more noble occupation than the making of the ideal home.—The Beacon.The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking.Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes. ByHelen Campbell. A new revised edition. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00.The work grew out of Mrs. Campbell’s experiences as a teacher of cookery, more especially at the South, but its principles are applicable anywhere, and as a manual for inexperienced housewives or as a class-room text-book it will be found of decided value.... No woman can give herself to a more noble occupation than the making of the ideal home, and Mrs. Campbell, by showing women how to do this, accomplished a great and important task. The book she has written tells about the requirements of a healthful home, explains how the routine of daily housekeeping may be most economically and effectually conducted, sets forth the chemistry of food and the relations of food to health, and in the second part gives special instructions on the preparation of different sorts of food, with many carefully tested recipes.—The Beacon.It is not a cook-book pure and simple. It is more. It covers a large range, such as the situation and arrangement of the house, drainage and water supply, the day’s work and how to plan it, fires, lights, and things to work with, washing-day and cleaning in general, the body and its composition, food and its laws, the relations of food to health, the chemistry of animal food, the chemistry of vegetable food, condiments, and beverages. The book is interestingly written, as is everything that comes from Mrs. Campbell’s pen. It certainly will prove a great benefit to housewives and would-be housewives who read it; besides, the ample recipes it contains make it a book of reference of constant value.—Cleveland World.In the midst of always increasing cookery books, it has had a firm constituency of friends, especially in the South, where its necessity was first made plain. There is something here for the tyro and the adept, and whether used at home with growing girls, in cooking clubs, in schools, or in private classes, the system outlined has proven itself admirable, and the theory and practice of Miss Campbell’s book are almost beyond criticism.—Oregonian.It is not merely a cook-book, but is a text-book of about everything that is of special interest to the housekeeper, and is adapted either for domestic use or study in classes. It is in fact a housekeeper’s most valuable encyclopædia, written by a lady who by education and thoroughly practical knowledge was rendered singularly competent for the important work here undertaken and so successfully carried out.... It is a book that intelligent young housekeepers especially will come to regard as an indispensable companion.—Boston Home Journal.It really is one of the most admirable of manuals for the usual young housekeeper.—Providence Journal.LITTLE, BROWN, & COMPANY,254 Washington Street, Boston, Mass.
MRS. CAMPBELL’S BOOKS.
THE WHAT-TO-DO CLUB.A Story for Girls. 16mo. $1.50.
MRS. HERNDON’S INCOME.A Novel. 16mo. $1.50.
MISS MELINDA’S OPPORTUNITY.A Story for Girls. 16mo. $1.00. (Paper, 50 cents.)
PRISONERS OF POVERTY.Women Wage-workers, their Trades and their Lives. 12mo. $1.00. (Paper, 50 cents.)
PRISONERS OF POVERTY ABROAD.16mo. $1.00. (Paper, 50 cents.)
ROGER BERKELEY’S PROBATION.A Story. 12mo. $1.00. (Paper, 50 cents.)
WOMEN WAGE-EARNERS.Their Past, their Present, and their Future. 16mo. $1.00.
THE EASIEST WAY IN HOUSEKEEPING AND COOKING.Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes. A new revised edition. 16mo. $1.00.
IN FOREIGN KITCHENS.With Choice Recipes from England, France, Germany, Italy, and the North. 50 cents.
SOME PASSAGES IN THE PRACTICE OF DR. MARTHA SCARBOROUGH.16mo. $1.00.
These books will be mailed, post-paid, on receipt of the price by the Publishers,
LITTLE, BROWN, & COMPANY,254 Washington Street, Boston, Mass.
Terms for quantities, or for class use, will be sent on application.
MRS. HERNDON’S INCOME.A NOVEL.
BY HELEN CAMPBELL.AUTHOR OF “THE WHAT-TO-DO CLUB.”
One volume. 16mo. Cloth. $1.50.
“Confirmed novel-readers who have regarded fiction as created for amusement and luxury alone, lay down this book with a new and serious purpose in life. The social scientist reads it, and finds the solution of many a tangled problem; the philanthropist finds in it direction and counsel. A novel written with a purpose, of which never for an instant does the author lose sight, it is yet absorbing in its interest. It reveals the narrow motives and the intrinsic selfishness of certain grades of social life; the corruption of business methods; the ‘false, fairy gold,’ of fashionable charities, and ‘advanced’ thought. Margaret Wentworth is a typical New England girl, reflective, absorbed, full of passionate and repressed intensity under a quiet and apparently cold exterior. The events that group themselves about her life are the natural result of such a character brought into contact with real life. The book cannot be too widely read.”—Boston Traveller.
“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.
MISS MELINDA’S OPPORTUNITY.A STORY.
BY HELEN CAMPBELL,AUTHOR OF “THE WHAT-TO-DO CLUB,” “MRS. HERNDON’S INCOME,” “PRISONERS OF POVERTY.”
16mo. Cloth, price, $1.00; paper covers, 50 cents.
“Mrs. Helen Campbell has written ‘Miss Melinda’s Opportunity’ with a definite purpose in view, and this purpose will reveal itself to the eyes of all of its philanthropic readers. The true aim of the story is to make life more real and pleasant to the young girls who spend the greater part of the day toiling in the busy stores of New York. Just as in the ‘What-to-do Club’ the social level of village life was lifted several grades higher, so are the little friendly circles of shop-girls made to enlarge and form clubs in ‘Miss Melinda’s Opportunity.’”—Boston Herald.
“‘Miss Melinda’s Opportunity,’ a story by Helen Campbell, is in a somewhat lighter vein than are the earlier books of this clever author; but it is none the less interesting and none the less realistic. The plot is unpretentious, and deals with the simplest and most conventional of themes: but the character-drawing is uncommonly strong, especially that of Miss Melinda, which is a remarkably vigorous and interesting transcript from real life, and highly finished to the slightest details. There is much quiet humor in the book, and it is handled with skill and reserve. Those who have been attracted to Mrs. Campbell’s other works will welcome the latest of them with pleasure and satisfaction.”—Saturday Gazette.
“The best book that Helen Campbell has yet produced is her latest story, ‘Miss Melinda’s Opportunity,’ which is especially strong in character-drawing, and its life sketches are realistic and full of vigor, with a rich vein of humor running through them. Miss Melinda is a dear lady of middle life, who has finally found her opportunity to do a great amount of good with her ample pecuniary means by helping those who have the disposition to help themselves. The story of how some bright and energetic girls who had gone to New York to earn their living put a portion of their earnings into a common treasury, and provided themselves with a comfortable home and good fare for a very small sum per week, is not only of lively interest, but furnishes hints for other girls in similar circumstances that may prove of great value. An unpretentious but well-sustained plot runs through the book, with a happy ending, in which Miss Melinda figures as the angel that she is.”—Home Journal.
Sold by all booksellers. Mailed, post-paid, on receipt of price, by the publishers,
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY,Boston.
THE WHAT-TO-DO CLUB.A STORY FOR GIRLS.
By Helen Campbell.
16mo. Cloth. Price $1.50.
“‘The What-to-do Club’ is an unpretending story. It introduces us to a dozen or more village girls of varying ranks. One has had superior opportunities; another exceptional training; two or three have been ‘away to school;’ some are farmers’ daughters; there is a teacher, two or three poor self-supporters,—in fact, about such an assemblage as any town between New York and Chicago might give us. But while there is a large enough company to furnish a delightful coterie, there is absolutely no social life among them.... Town and country need more improving, enthusiastic work to redeem them from barrenness and indolence. Our girls need a chance to do independent work, to study practical business, to fill their minds with other thoughts than the petty doings of neighbors. A What-to-do Club is one step toward higher village life. It is one step toward disinfecting a neighborhood of the poisonous gossip which floats like a pestilence around localities which ought to furnish the most desirable homes in our country.”—The Chautauquan.
“‘The What-to-do Club’ is a delightful story for girls, especially for New England girls, by Helen Campbell. The heroine of the story is Sybil Waite, the beautiful, resolute, and devoted daughter of a broken-down but highly educated Vermont lawyer. The story shows how much it is possible for a well-trained and determined young woman to accomplish when she sets out to earn her own living, or help others. Sybil begins with odd jobs of carpentering, and becomes an artist in woodwork. She is first jeered at, then admired, and finally loved by a worthy man. The book closes pleasantly with John claiming Sybil as his own. The labors of Sybil and her friends and of the New Jersey ‘Busy Bodies,’ which are said to be actual facts, ought to encourage many young women to more successful competition in the battles of life.”—Golden Rule.
“In the form of a story, this book suggests ways in which young women may make money at home, with practical directions for so doing. Stories with a moral are not usually interesting, but this one is an exception to the rule. The narrative is lively, the incidents probable and amusing, the characters well-drawn, and the dialects various and characteristic. Mrs. Campbell is a natural story-teller, and has the gift of making a tale interesting. Even the recipes for pickles and preserves, evaporating fruits, raising poultry, and keeping bees, are made poetic and invested with a certain ideal glamour, and we are thrilled and absorbed by an array of figures of receipts and expenditures, equally with the changeful incidents of flirtation, courtship, and matrimony. Fun and pathos, sense and sentiment, are mingled throughout, and the combination has resulted in one of the brightest stories of the season.”—Woman’s Journal.
Sold by all booksellers. Mailed, post-paid, by publishers,
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY,Boston.
SOME PASSAGES IN THE PRACTICE OF DR. MARTHA SCARBOROUGH.
BY HELEN CAMPBELL.
16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00.
Besides being equal to Mrs. Campbell’s best work in the past, it is strikingly original in presenting the ethics of the body as imperiously claiming recognition in the radical cure of inebriety. It forces attention to the physical and spiritual value of foods, and weaves precedent and precept into one of the most beguiling stories of recent date.
It is the gospel of good food, with the added influence of fresh air, sunlight, cleanliness, and physical exercise that occupy profitably the attention of Helen Campbell. Martha is a baby when the story begins, and a child not yet in her teens when the narrative comes to an end, but she has a salutary power over many lives. Her father is a wise country physician, who makes his chaise, in his daily progress about the hills, serve as his little daughter’s cradle and kindergarten. When she gets old enough to understand her expounds to her his views of the sins committed against hygiene, and his lessons sink into an appreciative mind. When he encounters particularly hard cases she applies his principles with unfailing logic, and is able to suggest helpful means of cure. The old doctor is delightfully sagacious in demonstrating how the confirmed pie-eater marries the tea inebriate, with the result in doughnut-devouring, dyspeptic, and consumptive offspring. “What did they die of?” asked little Martha, in the village graveyard; and her father answers solemnly, “Intemperance.” So Martha declares that she will be a “food doctor,” and later on she helps her father in saving several victims of strong drink. The book is one that should find hosts of earnest readers, for its admonitions are sadly needed, not in the country alone, but in the city, where, if better ideas of diet prevail, people have yet as a rule a long way to go before they attain the path of wisdom. Meanwhile it remains true, as Mrs. Campbell makes Dr. Scarborough declare, that the cabbage soup and black bread of the poorest French peasants are really better suited to the sustenance of healthy life than the “messes” that pass for food in many parts of rural New England.—The Beacon.
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ROGER BERKELEY’S PROBATION.A Story.
BY HELEN CAMPBELL,
Author of “Prisoners of Poverty,” “Mrs. Herndon’s Income,” “Miss Melinda’s Opportunity,” “The What-to-do Club,” etc.
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This story is on the scale of a cabinet picture. It presents interesting figures, natural situations, and warm colors. Written in a quiet key, it is yet moving, and the letter from Bolton describing the fortunate sale of Roger’s painting of “The Factory Bell” sends a tear of sympathetic joy to the reader’s eye. Roger Berkeley was a young American art student in Paris, called home by the mortal sickness of his mother, and detained at home by the spendthriftness of his father and the embarrassment that had overtaken the family affairs through the latter cause. A concealed mortgage on the old homestead, the mysterious disappearance of a package of bonds intended for Roger’s student use, and the paralytic incapacity of the father to give the information which his conscience prompted him to give, have a share in the development of the story. Roger is obliged for the time to abandon his art work, and takes a situation in a mill; and this trying diversion from his purpose is his “probation.” How he profits by this loss is shown in the result. The mill-life gives Mrs. Campbell opportunity to express herself characteristically in behalf of down-trodden “labor.” The whole story is simple, natural, sweet, and tender; and the figures of Connie, poor little cripple, and Miss Medora Flint, angular and snappish domestic, lend picturesqueness to its group of characters.—Literary World.
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PRISONERS OF POVERTY ABROAD
By HELEN CAMPBELL,AUTHOR OF “THE WHAT-TO-DO-CLUB,” “PRISONERS OF POVERTY,” “ROGER BERKELEY’S PROBATION,” ETC.
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Mrs. Helen Campbell, an occasional and valued contributor to this journal, and the author of “Prisoners of Poverty,” and other studies of social questions in this country, has offered in this book conclusions drawn from investigations on the same themes made abroad, principally in England or France. She has devoted personal attention and labor to the work, and, although much of what she describes has been depicted before by others, she tells her story with a freshness and an earnestness which give it exceptional interest and value. Her volume is one of testimony. She does not often attempt to philosophize, but to state facts as they are, so that they may plead their own cause. She puts before the reader a series of pictures, vividly drawn, but carefully guarded from exaggeration or distortion, that he may form his own opinions.—Congregationalist.
Can life be worth living to the hordes of miserable women who have to work from fifteen to eighteen hours a day for a wage of from twenty-five to thirty-five or forty cents? And what have all the study of political economy, all the writing of treatises about labor, all the Parliamentary debates, all the blue books, all the philanthropic organizations, all the appeals to a common humanity, done, in half a century, for these victims of what is called modern civilization? Mrs. Campbell is by no means a sentimentalist. We know of no one who examines facts more coolly and practically, or who labors more earnestly to find the real causes for the continued depression of the labor market, as this horrible state of things is euphemistically termed. The conclusions she reaches are therefore sober and trustworthy.—New York Tribune.
No work of fiction, however imaginative, could present more startling pictures than does this little book, which is sympathetic, but not sentimental, the result of personal investigation, and a most valuable contribution to the literature of the labor question.—Philadelphia Record.
Mrs. Helen Campbell’s “Prisoners of Poverty,” a study of the condition of some of the lower strata of the laboring classes, particularly the working-women in the great cities of the United States, is supplemented with another volume, “Prisoners of Poverty Abroad,” in which the life of working-women of European cities, chiefly London and Paris, is depicted with equally graphic and terrible truthfulness.
They are the result of fifteen months of travel and study, and are examples of Mrs. Campbell’s well-known methods of examination and description. They paint a horrible picture, but a truthful one, and no person of even ordinary sensibilities can read these books without experiencing a strong desire to do something to abate the monstrous injustice which they describe.—Good Housekeeping.
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In Foreign Kitchens.
With Choice Recipes from England, France, Germany, Italy, and the North.
By HELEN CAMPBELL,Author of “The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking,” “Prisoners of Poverty,” “The What-To-Do Club,” etc.
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While foreign cookbooks are accessible to all readers of foreign languages, and American ones have borrowed from them for what we know as “French cookery,” it is difficult often to judge the real value of a dish, or decide if experiment in new directions is worth while. The recipes in the following chapters, prepared originally forThe Epicure, of Boston, were gathered slowly, as the author found them in use, and are most of them taken from family recipe-books, as valued abroad as at home. So many requests have come for them in some more convenient form than that offered in the magazine, that the present shape has been determined upon; and it is hoped they may be a welcome addition to the housekeeper’s private store of rules for varying the monotony of the ordinary menu.
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Women Wage-Earners.Their Past, their Present, and their Future. ByHelen Campbell. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00.
The writer describes employments in the factory and home, compares the condition of women workers here and abroad, dwells upon the evils and abuses in factory life and in general trades, and points out remedies and gives suggestions. The book is an expansion of a prize monograph for the American Economic Association, for which a reward was given in 1891, expanded to nearly double its original size. An introduction to it is contributed by Prof. Richard T. Ely. Nowhere else could one get so much information on this subject in so small a space as in this book.—The School Journal.
It includes such topics as factory labor, rise and growth of trades, labor bureaus, wage rates, and general conditions for women workers in England, on the Continent, and in the United States.
The importance of this subject with which Mrs. Campbell deals is not easily overestimated. The present age is the era of woman, since whatever affects her receives a consideration never before given. For a long time the agitation in favor of woman was to remove barriers and open the way for her. The way has been opened and woman has entered scores of fields previously closed to her. The questions which now arise are as to her remuneration for her work in these fields, and the influence of women wage-earning on the family, the home, and society. These are questions not yet settled. Mrs. Campbell approaches their discussion in a spirit of fairness, and what she says is suggestive and helpful, if not conclusive. Her volume is a valuable contribution to the literature of social science.—Boston Advertiser.
Such a work could never have been compiled for women except by a woman. It is itself a demonstration of the fact that women can handle the woman question as men alone cannot do, and that women can be raised and elevated from their present depressed condition only by organizations and trades unions of their own. Every woman should read this book carefully. She will gain from its perusal a breadth and depth of knowledge which will be of lasting value to her, and it will show her how great a work exists for women to do, in order to “make the world better.”—Woman’s Journal.
It is a sober statement of facts by a thoughtful woman who has made a life-study of economic questions, both through the medium of books, and by personal investigation into the modern conditions of labor. The book covers the history of the wage question as affecting women, its present status, and its prospect for the future.—Worcester Spy.
Her style is robust, orderly, precise, every page carrying the evidence of trained thought and of careful, conscientious research.—Public Opinion.
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No Woman can give herself to a more noble occupation than the making of the ideal home.—The Beacon.
The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking.Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes. ByHelen Campbell. A new revised edition. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00.
The work grew out of Mrs. Campbell’s experiences as a teacher of cookery, more especially at the South, but its principles are applicable anywhere, and as a manual for inexperienced housewives or as a class-room text-book it will be found of decided value.... No woman can give herself to a more noble occupation than the making of the ideal home, and Mrs. Campbell, by showing women how to do this, accomplished a great and important task. The book she has written tells about the requirements of a healthful home, explains how the routine of daily housekeeping may be most economically and effectually conducted, sets forth the chemistry of food and the relations of food to health, and in the second part gives special instructions on the preparation of different sorts of food, with many carefully tested recipes.—The Beacon.
It is not a cook-book pure and simple. It is more. It covers a large range, such as the situation and arrangement of the house, drainage and water supply, the day’s work and how to plan it, fires, lights, and things to work with, washing-day and cleaning in general, the body and its composition, food and its laws, the relations of food to health, the chemistry of animal food, the chemistry of vegetable food, condiments, and beverages. The book is interestingly written, as is everything that comes from Mrs. Campbell’s pen. It certainly will prove a great benefit to housewives and would-be housewives who read it; besides, the ample recipes it contains make it a book of reference of constant value.—Cleveland World.
In the midst of always increasing cookery books, it has had a firm constituency of friends, especially in the South, where its necessity was first made plain. There is something here for the tyro and the adept, and whether used at home with growing girls, in cooking clubs, in schools, or in private classes, the system outlined has proven itself admirable, and the theory and practice of Miss Campbell’s book are almost beyond criticism.—Oregonian.
It is not merely a cook-book, but is a text-book of about everything that is of special interest to the housekeeper, and is adapted either for domestic use or study in classes. It is in fact a housekeeper’s most valuable encyclopædia, written by a lady who by education and thoroughly practical knowledge was rendered singularly competent for the important work here undertaken and so successfully carried out.... It is a book that intelligent young housekeepers especially will come to regard as an indispensable companion.—Boston Home Journal.
It really is one of the most admirable of manuals for the usual young housekeeper.—Providence Journal.
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