Porter, Eleanor H. Cross currents: the story of Margaret. †$1. Wilde.
7–27618.
The story of a little girl of wealth who was lost and found by a little waif of the slums, taken to his meager attic, and forced to grow up among the sordid conditions of sweat-shops and dirty streets. The book is a revealing child-labor document.
Porter, Gene Stratton (Mrs. Charles Darwin Porter). What I have done with birds. **$3. Bobbs.
7–17394.
The sub-title of this book is wholly suggestive of its scope: “character studies of native American birds which through friendly advance I induced to pose for me, or succeeded in photographing by good fortune, with the story of my experiences in obtaining their pictures.”
“Self-appreciation or self-consciousness constantly reappears throughout the book.” George Gladden.
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“A thread of sustained interest runs through the whole book and makes it possible for the reader to overlook a perhaps justifiable pride of the author in her achievements and to ignore at times an abrupt style and a tendency to employ unusual words and phrases.”