GERTRUDE HALL'S THE UNKNOWN QUANTITY
A young widow comes to New York to investigate various business interests of her late husband, and finds herself face to face at the outset with the two most vital problems of a woman's life.
"Her people are alive. They linger in the imagination."—Boston Transcript.
"Seeing life with sincerity and truth ... she has a rather big idea for a working basis."—The Bookman.
"Retains the charmed interest ... the quiet, thoughtful style, and the vivid, if restrained, humanity. The tale is so natural, so lifelike.... The author's evident faith in the eternal rightness of things."—Chicago Record-Herald.