of Boston, says, “If any writer has done the present generation an extremely valuable service. Mrs. Gage’s name heads the list. There is no true man or woman who cannot but feel under obligations to its author.”
Victor K. Lemstrand, a literary gentleman and profound thinker of Stockholm, wrote, “I want to make the work known here in Sweden and perhaps translate parts of it into Swedish.”
A noted lady reformer of the South, a woman of wealth and position, after receiving the book wrote, “I came home and looked your book through; was so chained to it I could not let it go. I am thankful and overjoyed at the book. It will make a stir and emancipate thousands. I thank you in my soul. I cannot see anything you could have omitted. It throws a light on the park pages of life, a strong light, it is true, strong because true, but in a most solemn and dignified manner.”
Column after column could be filled with notices similar in character, from newspapers, magazines and letters, all speaking in the highest manner of the purity of the book, its profound learning, the research shown, and its immense value to the world. It is a history, both of the church and the state, especially in their relations to woman, which touches many points that have been ignored by male historians, and herein lies its greatest value. Intelligent men and women who do not believe in a censorship are invited to send for the book and judge whether its tendency is to corrupt the imagination of girls, or to teach them the dignity of womanhood.
