" Confirmed novel-readers \A/ho have regarded fiction as created for amusement
and luxury alone, lay down this book with a new and serious purpose in life. The
social scientist reads it, and finds the solution of many a tangled problem ; the
philanthropist finds in it direction and counsel. A novel written with a purpose,
of which never for an instant does the author lose sight, it is yet absorbing in its
interest. It reveals the narrow motives and the intrinsic selfishness of certain
grades of social life ; the corruption of business methods ; the ' false, fairy gold/
of fashionable charities, and ' advanced ' thought. Margaret Wentworth is a
typical New England girl, reflective, absorbed, full of passionate and repressed
intensity under a quiet and apparently cold exterior. The events that group
themselves about her life are the natural result of such a character brought into
contact with real life. The book cannot be too widely read." — Boston Traveller.
" If the ' What-to-do Club ' was clever, this is decidedly more so. It is a pow-
erful story, and is evidently written in some degree, we cannot quite say how great
a degree, from fact. The personages of the story are very well drawn, — indeed,
' Amanda Briggs ' is as good as anything American fiction has produced. We
fancy we could pencil on the margin the real names of at least half the characters.
It is a book for the wealthy to read that they may know something that is required
of them, because it does not ignore the difficulties in their way, and especially
does not overlook the differences which social standing puts between class and
class. It is a deeply interesting story considered as mere fiction, one of the best
which has lately appeared. We hope the authoress will go on in a path where
she has shown herself so capable." — The Churchman.
"In Mrs. Campbell's novel we have a work that is not to be judged by
ordinary standards. The story holds the reader's interest by its realistic pictures
of the local life around us, by its constant and progressive action, and by the
striking dramatic quality of scenes and incidenrs, described in a style clear, con-
nected, and harmonious. The novel-reader who is not taken up and made to
share the author's enthusiasm before getting half-way through the book must
possess a taste satiated and depraved by indulgence in exciting and sensational
fiction. The earnestness of the author's presentation of essentially great purposes
lends intensity to her narrative. Succeeding as she does in impressing us strongly
with her convictions, there is nothing of dogmatism in their preaching. But the
suggestiveness of every chapter is backed by pictures of real life."— iV^w York
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"Confirmed novel-readers who have regarded fiction as created for amusement and luxury alone, lay down this book with a new and serious purpose in life. The social scientist reads it, and finds the solution of many a tangled problem ; the philanthropist finds in it direction and counsel. A novel written with a purpose, of which never for an instant does the author lose sight, it is yet absorbing in its interest. It reveals the narrow motives and the intrinsic selfishness of certain grades of social life ; the corruption of business methods ; the ' false, fairy gold/ of fashionable charities, and ' advanced ' thought. Margaret Wentworth is a typical New England girl, reflective, absorbed, full of passionate and repressed intensity under a quiet and apparently cold exterior. The events that group themselves about her life are the natural result of such a character brought into contact with real life. The book cannot be too widely read." — Boston Traveller.
" If the ' What-to-do Club ' was clever, this is decidedly more so. It is a powerful story, and is evidently written in some degree, we cannot quite say how great a degree, from fact. The personages of the story are very well drawn, — indeed, ' Amanda Briggs ' is as good as anything American fiction has produced. We fancy we could pencil on the margin the real names of at least half the characters. It is a book for the wealthy to read that they may know something that is required of them, because it does not ignore the difficulties in their way, and especially does not overlook the differences which social standing puts between class and class. It is a deeply interesting story considered as mere fiction, one of the best which has lately appeared. We hope the authoress will go on in a path where she has shown herself so capable." — The Churchman.
"In Mrs. Campbell's novel we have a work that is not to be judged by ordinary standards. The story holds the reader's interest by its realistic pictures of the local life around us, by its constant and progressive action, and by the striking dramatic quality of scenes and incidenrs, described in a style clear, connected, and harmonious. The novel-reader who is not taken up and made to share the author's enthusiasm before getting half-way through the book must possess a taste satiated and depraved by indulgence in exciting and sensational fiction. The earnestness of the author's presentation of essentially great purposes lends intensity to her narrative. Succeeding as she does in impressing us strongly with her convictions, there is nothing of dogmatism in their preaching. But the suggestiveness of every chapter is backed by pictures of real life."— iV^w York World. » .
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melinda's opportunity," etc. i6mo. Cloth. $1.00. Paper, 50 cents.