SOURCE: A review of The Century of the Child, in The Dial, Chicago, Vol. XLVI, No. 550, May 16, 1909, pp. 325-27.

In the following review of The Century of the Child, Hunt offers a favorable opinion, but laments what she considers Key's "bitterness of spirit" apparent in the work

Abundant food for thought and unlimited material for discussion are to be found in Ellen Key's The Century of the Child, which has just been translated from the Swedish—or, more correctly, has just come to English readers through the German by double translation. The original was published in 1900, and took its title from a saying of one of the characters in The Lion's Whelp: "The next century will be the century of the child, just as this century has been the woman's century."

It is unfortunate that the author's most radical views, and those that are likely to be thought...