+ + R. of Rs. 33: 114. Ja. ’06. 200w.
Moore, John Trotwood. [Bishop of Cottontown: a story of the Southern cotton mills.] †$1.50. Winston.
Child labor and the extent to which it was carried in the South after the close of the war, is described in grim detail in this story of the Acme cotton mills. Richard Travis, the man at their head, is a low creature who poses as a gentleman and lures pretty girls into his mill only to betray them. His underlings are as unscrupulous as he and persuade the poverty-stricken whites of the neighborhood to sell their little children into real slavery for a term of years at five cents a working hour. The book is a strong and terrible arraignment of child labor and in the end through the influence of the “Bishop” of Cottontown, the woman whom Travis really loved and lost, and other better souls, the mills become co-operative and the little children are given back their childhood.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
“Gives us an excellent description of life in the Tennessee valley.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 482. Ag. 4, ’06. 170w.
Moore, Mabel. Carthage of the Phoenicians in the light of modern excavations. **$1.50. Dutton.
“This book is an interesting and succinct account of the work of excavation, being accomplished in the Punic tombs of Carthage by the Rev. A. L. Delattre, Archpriest of the Cathedral of St. Louis of Carthage, and his colleagues. In other words, the book gives the results of excavations in certain large tombs, especially the Necropolis of St. Louis and the Necropolis of Bord-el-Djedid.”—Spec.