October, 1913 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
271 
Have you anything in common with your 
husband but domestic troubles f 
CJ Why should a woman outlive her usefulness? 
q is complete absorption in her children, to the exclusion 
of all other interests, the real duty of a married woman? 
fj Will the old idea of a sheltered life, seclusion from the 
vital work of the world, and self-sacrifice hold its own 
against the awakening to larger interests among women 
of to-day? 
q who is to blame, if, through her inability to share one 
thought with her husband outside of their domestic life, 
a woman’s married life is a failure? 
CJ These are the thoughts which one finds uppermost after 
reading the powerful new romance. 
Virginia 3rd Large Printing 
By Ellen Glasgow, Author of “The Battle-Ground,’’ 
“The Voice of the People,” “The Wheel of Life,” etc. 
EAR what some of the critics have to say of “ Virginia . ” 
The New York Sun writes: “A ‘powerful’ book, a demonstration 
of the way woman is abused by man, that rouses i 
effectively than any plea for the suffrage can.” 
Gene Stratton-Porter, author of “Freckles” and “The Harvester,” says: “What a gift of expression she has! 
I know of no other woman and very few men who can equal her on this one point. Chesterton does the same thing, with 
a champagne sparkle and bubble, but I would hesitate to say that even he surpasses her, for while he is bubbling and spark¬ 
ling on the surface, charming, alluring, holding one, she is down among the fibres of the heart, her bright brain and keen 
wit cutting right and left with the precision of a skilled surgeon. Not so witty, but fully as wise. You have only to read 
‘Virginia’ to convince yourself.” 
“It is a story for any man and any woman, but it has a special significance for the man who has hypnotized himself into be¬ 
lieving that his grandmother was the sum of all womanly perfections, and for the woman who is content to be ‘just a wife 
and a mother and nothing else.’ ”.—This from Elizabeth Calvert Hall. 
And the Critic of the London Punch thus surrenders “unconditionally:” “I coniess to a prejudice, based 
upon painful experience, against transatlantic fiction. I admit this the more readily because I am about to prove that, con¬ 
fronted with work of real and outstanding merit, it becomes a thing of naught. Unfortunately such occasions are rare. The 
more honor then to ‘ Virginia / before whose compelling charm I have had the pleasure of unconditional surrender. Miss Ellen 
Glasgow has created a single character, complete in absolutely human form. Virginia herself, as girl, wife and mother, one 
seems to have known as a personal friend; and to have admired her youthful beauty, and seen it change and develop into the 
matured charm of the woman. Other women, or I am mistaken, will specially appreciate her. Throughout I was haunted 
by a wish that Virginia could have been drawn for us by Du Maurier, who could have done her justice. If American novels 
are going to display such quality as this, their historical definition as ‘dry goods’ will become meaningless.” 
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