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“It is full of interest.”—Ohio State Journal.

“In this beautiful volume we have a story of love that did not end at the altar.”—The Old Homestead.

“It is essentially a tale of this period, when women’s rights, women’s emancipation, women’s individuality, are in full force.”—Inter Ocean.

“The book is one that will increase the reader’s faith in humanity and respect for the rights and opinions of others.”—Woman’s Standard, Des Moines.

This modern love story, like its subject, does not end with the altar, but continues, quite in sympathy with modern progress, to prove that despite misunderstanding and trouble, marriage is never a failure when it is a union of souls. The heroine is a veritable fin de siècle maiden; she is devoted to her art, at least she thinks she is; not at all sentimental, until her heart is touched, when, quite to her own surprise and the amusement of the reader, she suddenly becomes a very ordinary damsel, none the less lovable for that, either in the eyes of her lover or his sympathetic confidante, who is likewise the reader. The tale is pleasantly told, bright with incident and not too serious with reflection to make it an enjoyable holiday companion.”—Journal of Education, Boston.

Miss Orcutt is perhaps best known as the “Editor of Economist Educational Exercises,” a series of lessons on economic subjects which were published in 1892—in the National Economist, then the official organ of the Farmers’ Alliance. Miss Orcutt is a member of the Illinois Woman’s Press Association, and a contributor to leading periodicals. She wrote “The Danger of the Hour,” a striking article published in the American Journal of Politics.