Uniform with the “Thin paper poets.” A biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole, notes and appendices make the volume complete.
Keays, Mrs. H. A. Mitchell. Work of our hands. †$1.50. McClure.
A Montague and Capulet enmity is set at naught by the marriage of young Bronsart and Aylmer Forsythe. This hero is a capitalist “whose life of luxury has given him a moral myopia,” and his wife in a rather provocative way sets about to relieve the down-trodden condition among the laborers in his factories, and to force her husband into believing that his wealth should be used for aiding instead of oppressing the poor.
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