Part 4

“While our Government is squandering thousands in an attempt to ruin the one man to whom we owe a revolutionary improvement in the law, they are doing practically nothing to stop the real evil. The police of our great provincial towns are already effecting unprecedented moral improvements under Mr. Stead’s Act. But the 10,000 Metropolitan policemen, under the direction of the Government, have done nothing except allow Mrs. Jeffries to escape, rebuke Minahan, and prosecute Mr. Stead. All the journals which for fifteen years have never broken their conspiracy of silence, except to advocate the obscene and iniquitous Contagious Diseases Acts, are now howling against Mr. Stead. To each of them, as to Judas Iscariot of old, it must be said: ‘That thou doest, do quickly.’ ‘This is the hour and power of darkness.’ Now is the time to betray the cause of virtue. Stab away with your malignant and mendacious articles at the quivering hearts of pure women and good men. Hasten to fill up the measure of your iniquity. Jesus of Nazareth, the Friend of sinners, the Protector of children, has heard our prayers. The night is far spent. The long-expected day of Purity and Justice and Brotherhood is at hand.”

London: MORGAN & SCOTT, 12, Paternoster Buildings.

REBECCA JARRETT.

BY

JOSEPHINE E. BUTLER.

PRESS COMMENTS.

“This little book is one which should be read by all who desire to know the truth about the recent trial at the Old Bailey. Feelings of respect and sympathy cannot fail to be called forth towards one so earnest-hearted and devoted as the writer.”—_British Women’s Temperance Journal._

“All fair-minded persons ought to welcome the account of Rebecca Jarrett’s life, just prepared by Mrs. Josephine Butler. We venture to think that the perusal of this pathetic sketch will modify those hard and bitter feelings towards this woman, which some good and sincere people think themselves justified in cherishing.”—_The Christian._

“We beg our readers to purchase at once the little book which Mrs. Josephine Butler has just issued, entitled ‘REBECCA JARRETT.’ It is published at sixpence by Morgan and Scott. It places Rebecca Jarrett in quite a new light, and brings out the real character of the recent trial more clearly and fully than it has been brought out by anybody else.”—REV. HUGH PRICE HUGHES in _The Methodist Times_.

NOW READY. FOURTH EDITION.

_Handsomely Bound._ _Price Six Shillings._

CATHARINE OF SIENA:

A BIOGRAPHY.

By JOSEPHINE E. BUTLER,

_Author of the “Memoir of John Grey of Dilston,” &c._

WITH A PORTRAIT ENGRAVED ON STEEL.

EXTRACTS FROM REVIEWS.

_The Spectator_ says—“Mrs. Butler, as we cannot but believe, has achieved a great success, and of the pages of this remarkable biography it is difficult to say whether they reflect more strikingly the aspects and events of the great century in which Catharine lived and laboured, or the personality of the saint herself.”

_The Literary World_ says—“The story of Catharine of Siena, as told by Mrs. Butler, presents the saint in such a new light, that it is well worth reading by those who would turn with weariness from the lives of the saints as told either by the Bollandists or Benedictines. It teaches us that, as one man in his time can play many parts, so a life which we are tolerably familiar with in one aspect may be seen in a totally new light, according as it is grouped with others or simply studied by itself.... We are ready to admit that we have made a discovery in reading this life of St. Catharine, and the discovery is all the more striking since Mrs. Butler has apparently not sat down with any intention of rehabilitating the fair Sienese saint.”

_The Dundee Evening Telegraph_ says—“We see in the beautiful character portrayed by the accomplished authoress of this volume a noble, pure and devoted Christian worker. She visited the forsaken prisoner; she brought comfort and hope to the lost and abandoned; she visited the sick, and in the hour when all human help fails and the fairest hopes of earth wither, we see her holding before the plague-stricken dying people the sacred emblem of sorrow and of triumph, and pointing undismayed to the unfailing refuge.”

_The Freeman_ says—“No Christian reader will fail to be edified by the devout spirit and the profound sympathy with all that is noble and heroic in philanthropy, which pervades both the biographer and the subject of the biography.”

_The Christian_ says—“We should be glad that all the women of England, and especially the Christian women, should read this noble life.”

LONDON: DYER BROTHERS, PATERNOSTER SQUARE (CORNER OF ROSE STREET). _May be ordered through any Bookseller, or will be sent post-free on receipt of the published price._

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

● Typos fixed; non-standard spelling and dialect retained. ● Used numbers for footnotes. ● Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. ● Enclosed blackletter font in =equals=.