"Mrs. Stetson's contribution to the woman question is a notable one, but it is notable chiefly because of its logical conclusions, its constructive ability, its art of putting things in an arranging way."—Humanitarian.
IN THIS OUR WORLD
REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION
16mo, cloth, ornamental, gilt top, with a photogravure frontispiece from a recent photograph, 5s.
This new Edition, following the little pamphlet volumes issued on the Pacific Coast, should give her book a popularity as wide as the country. Certainly the vigour, the verve, the deep moral earnestness, and the delightful humour and extraordinary talent for satire which she displays in these poems, have hardly been surpassed. The volume is divided into three parts. The first, entitled The World, ranges in subject from Similar Cases and An Obstacle (to name only two of those satirical pieces by which Mrs. Stetson has hitherto been best known), to lyrics of nature remarkable for their tender sympathy and loving observation. While the third part, called The March, deals with the "forward movement" of human brotherhood which has always been so dear to Mrs. Stetson's heart.
PRESS NOTICES
"Mrs. Stetson's civic satire is of a form which she has herself invented; it recalls the work of no one else; you can say of it that since the Biglow Papers there has been no satire approaching it in the wit flashing from profound conviction."—W. D. Howells in the North American Review.
"Mrs. Stetson has plenty to say, especially when her theme is revolt."—Spectator.
"She puts things in a new way and succeeds by sheer intensity of insight and directness of personal consciousness. The book is too exclusively occupied with morals, no doubt; but this is an Anglo-Saxon weakness—or strength, and, like everything else, it is justified when it succeeds.... We do not say that this is a volume of great poetry, but we do say that it is an original and interesting book, one of the best kind, the kind that makes us stop and think."—Literature.
"On the whole Mrs. Stetson's little book is a refreshing proof of the spread of culture in California."—Manchester Guardian.