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Whiteing, Richard. Ring in the new. †$1.50. Century.
London and its awful problems of labor and poverty is the theme of this bitterly real study of “the other half,” thru which there ever runs a note of hope. Prue at twenty, penniless, unskilled, tho gently born and bred, casts herself into the maelstrom of London in a pitiful attempt to earn a living, and there realizes her own helplessness and all but goes down before the overwhelming fear of it, clinging for comfort to the mongrel dog she can ill afford to keep. The people whom she meets in the course of her plucky career as an incompetent working girl. Sarah the charwoman, Laura, a gem engraver, Leonard the young editor of The branding-iron, a journal of the back streets, and all the others, interest us not so much as individuals as parts of a struggling whole.
“This is the most important romance of recent months dealing with social progress. The author is a finished writer, a scholar skillful with the use of words. This is a work that we can heartily recommend to all lovers of human progress and social advance.”