Part 161 (1/2)
A remarkable book. A work on economics that has not a dull page--the work of a woman about women that has not a flippant word.--_Boston Transcript._
Will be widely read and discussed as the cleverest, fairest, most forcible presentation of the view of the rapidly increasing group who look with favor on the extension of industrial employment to women.--_Political Science Quarterly._
”Concerning Children” $1.25
WANTED:--A philanthropist, to give a copy to every English-speaking parent.--_The Times,_ New York.
Should be read by every mother in the land.--_The Press,_ New York.
Wholesomely disturbing book that deserves to be read for its own sake.--_Chicago Dial._
”In This Our World” (Poems) $1.25
There is a joyous superabundance of life, of strength, of health, in Mrs. Gilman's verse, which seems born of the glorious suns.h.i.+ne and rich gardens of California.--_Was.h.i.+ngton Times._
The poet of women and for women, a new and prophetic voice in the world.
Montaigne would have rejoiced in her.--_Mexican Herald._
”The Yellow Wall Paper” $0.50
Worthy of a place beside some of the weird masterpieces of Hawthorne and Poe.--_Literature._
As a short story it stands among the most powerful produced in America.--_Chicago News._
”The Home” $1.00
Indeed, Mrs. Gilman has not intended her book so much as a treatise for scholars as a surgical operation on the popular mind.--_The Critic,_ New York.
It is safe to say that no more stimulating arraignment has ever before taken shape and that the argument of the book is n.o.ble, and, on the whole, convincing.--_Congregationalist,_ Boston.
”Human Work” $1.00
Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman has been writing a new book, ent.i.tled ”Human Work.” It is the best thing that Mrs. Gilman has done, and it is meant to focus all of her previous work, so to speak.--_Tribune,_ Chicago.
In her latest volume, ”Human Work,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman places herself among the foremost students and elucidators of the problem of social economics.--”San Francisco Star._
It is impossible to overestimate the value of the insistence on the social aspect of human affairs as Mrs. Gilman has outlined it.--_Public Opinion._
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