Mrs. Fry dealt with women principally, and it was only in a very limited degree that she could benefit the children of these fallen ones.  Still there can be no doubt that she did a large service to society in taking possession of them and educating them while with their mothers.  What that work involved has been fully told in the preceding pages; its results no pen can compute.  Woman-like, she aimed at the improvement of her own sex; but the reform which she inaugurated did not stop there.  Like a circle caused by the descent of a pebble into a lake, it widened and extended and spread until she and her work became household words among all classes of society, and in all civilized countries.  Most women would have shrunk back appalled at the terrible scene of degradation which Newgate presented when she first entered its wards as a visitor; others would have deemed it impossible to accomplish anything, save under the auspices of Government, and by the aid of public funds.  Not thus did she regard the matter, but with earnest, oft-repeated endeavors, she set herself to stem the tide of sin and suffering to be found at that period in Government jails, and so successfully that a radical change passed over the whole system before she died.  Probably it is not too much to say that no laborer in the cause of prison reform ever won a larger share of success.  Certainly none ever received a larger meed of reverential love.

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FAMOUS WOMEN SERIES.

EMILY BRONTE.

BY A. MARY F. ROBINSON.

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“Miss Robinson has written a fascinating biography....  Emily Bronte is interesting, not because she wrote ‘Wuthering Heights,’ but because of her brave, baffled, human life, so lonely, so full of pain, but with a great hope shining beyond all the darkness, and a passionate defiance in bearing more than the burdens that were laid upon her.  The story of the three sisters is infinitely sad, but it is the ennobling sadness that belongs to large natures cramped and striving for freedom to heroic, almost desperate, work, with little or no result.  The author of this intensely interesting, sympathetic, and eloquent biography, is a young lady and a poet, to whom a place is given in a recent anthology of living English poets, which is supposed to contain only the best poems of the best writers.”—­Boston Daily Advertiser.

“Miss Robinson had many excellent qualifications for the task she has performed in this little volume, among which may be named, an enthusiastic interest in her subject and a real sympathy with Emily Bronte’s sad and heroic life.  ‘To represent her as she was,’ says Miss Robinson, ’would be her noblest