University of Virginia Library

THE EVOLUTION OF WOMAN
By ELIZA BURT GAMBLE

12°, PP. XIV. + 350 . . $1.75

"Mrs. Gamble's book cannot fail to produce a marked effect upon opinion concerning many important questions of primitive society. It will also be found extremely interesting by the general reader."—The Nation.

"The Evolution of Woman furnishes a plausible explanation of wife-capture and divers obscure wedding rites."—Popular Science Monthly.

"It is not a mere empty compliment to say that the character of the book, and the fact that its author is a woman, furnish strong supports for the chief contention—the superiority of the female organization. It is certainly a conclusive answer to the trite assertion that woman shows her inferiority to man by her inability to reason and her contempt for logic."—The Detroit Free Press.

"The Evolution of Woman by Eliza Burt Gamble is one of the ablest reviews of the subject that has at any time been written. . . . If men don't think the author has made out a strong case, it would be wiser to defer saying so until they read the argument."—Chicago Inter-Ocean.

"The book is singularly full, direct and straightforward. No mock modesty mars it; it faces its problems squarely and does not shirk an issue, as so many women do, when it becomes embarrassing. . . . It is a book for thinking persons."—The Chicago Herald.

Granted our authoress has proved her point to the hilt, every man who has known a good mother will yield it; but after all what does it end in? . . . Let her and her sisterhood beware lest in seeking the shadow they lose the substance: let her be content with being the mistress and the prize, not the comrade or the rival of man."—The National Observer, London.

"Besides, even as it is, women give themselves airs enough on account of their male connections. Suppose a woman's husband is a Volunteer, what would she not give to be allowed to walk down the street with him when he has his uniform on; and if she were allowed. what an amount of `side' she would put on. . . . Enough has been said, however, to show that all Mrs. Gamble's statements and arguments are not to be accepted implicitly. What woman's are?"—The Scotsman.

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, NEW YORK AND LONDON.

"A valuable contribution to sociology."—Providence Journal, R. I.

"The whole subject is treated with much ability and learning."—Indianapolis Journal.

"The work shows great research made in a truthful spirit."—Current Literature, New York.

"No candid reader will fail to recognize the comprehensiveness and good faith of her researches or the earnestness and skill with which her conclusions are laid before us."—New York Sun.

"This is a thoughtful and carefully written essay. . . . The book gives evidence of wide reading and of well-developed powers of reasoning."—Manchester Guardian, England.

"The Evolution of Woman is an entertaining, instructive, and convincing work. . . . It gives every evidence of deep research and a frank desire to reach the truth."—Times, Chicago.

"The author of The Evolution of Woman is well in the van of scientific speculation as to the position of woman and the causes that have led to her past acceptance of it."—The Literary World, London.

"Eliza Burt Gamble has made a profound study of the evolution of mankind, and has found abundant material to prove that the female, in every stage of existence, has exhibited a more advanced state of development than the male."—Saturday Evening Gazette, Boston, Mass.

"Eliza Burt Gamble, an exceedingly brilliant scientist, takes up the theory of evolution as expounded by Darwin and others, and by its results proves the superiority of woman over man."—Cleveland Leader, Ohio.

"It is an inspiring message to the human race. No person, man or woman, can familiarize himself with the facts it musters and the theory it advances, without feeling his heart leap afresh within him at this new proof that the god-like powers of insight and aspiration have been as much a slow and steady growth from the very earliest times as have his physical capabilities."—The New Order, Chicago, III.

"One of the most interesting and pertinent of recent books of fact and theory and argument. . . . She has done a great deal of valuable work in collecting the facts of feminine history, from the earliest times, and has marshalled them in imposing array, and has proved many things in regard to certain mental and physical superiorities of women."—Portland Transcript.

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, NEW YORK AND LONDON.