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Credit: Power through repose / by Annie Payson Call. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![BITS OF TALK ABOUT HOME MATTERS. By H. H. Auiuor of Verses? and Bits of Travel Square iSmo. Cloth, red edges. Price, $;.oo. A New Gospel for Mothers. — We wish that every mother In the land would read ' Bits of Talk about Home Matters,' by H. H , and that they would read it thoughtfully. The latter suggestion is, however, wholly unnecessary : the book seizes one's thoughts and sympathies, as only startling truths presented with direct earnestness can do. . . . The adoption of her sentiments would who'ly change the atmosphere in many a house to what it ought to be, and bring almost constant sunshine and bliss where now too often are storm and misery. —Lawrence {Kansas] yaurnal. In the little book entitled ' Bits of Talk,' by H. H., Messrs. Roberts Brothers have given to the world an uncommonly useful collection of essays, — useful certainly to all parents, and likely to do good to all chil- dren. Other people have doubtless held as correct views on the subjects treated here, though few have ever advanced them ; and none that we are aware have made them so attractive as they are made by H. H.'s crisp and sparkling style. No one opening the book, even though without rea- son for special interest in its topics, could, after a glimpse at its pages, lay it down unread ; and its bright and witty scintillations will fix many a precept and establish many a fact. ' Bits of Talk ' is a book that ought to have a place of honor in every household ; for it teaches, not only the true dignity of parentage, but of childhood. As we read it, we laugh and cry with the author, and acknowledge that, since the child is father of the man, in being the champion of childhood, she is the champion of the whole coming race. Great is the rod, but H. H. is not its prophet 1 — Ji/-t. Harriet Prescott Spofford, in NewburyPort Herald. Sold everywhere. Mailed, post-paid, by the pub- Ushers,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2103123x_0177.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
