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.