Publisher's Synopsis
The volume is made up of short essays, which cover almost the whole phase of human existence. There is not a dull spot in the whole book. It is full of joy and health and encouragement.
The subject of right thinking has been written about since Epictetus, always about the miracle of mind over matter, not necessarily Christian Science, but just being alive artistically. Mrs. Wilcox's book is one of the best of this class of literature which has appeared within the last five years.
The text is bright and the dominant note cheerfulness. It is for the youth just starting life, fresh from the school classroom, for the girl who is just getting her first glimpse of society, for the young married people, and for those who are about to enter the last few miles of Life's race.
There are charming poetical selections scattered through the text, but it is the optimistic touch which prevails in the essays which grips the reader so, that upon finishing it we feel as if we must cast worry, selfishness and any baseness which is in our natures to the winds, not when that element is blowing inland, so that our faults may be cast upon some other's soul, but when a full, fresh gale is blowing out to sea, then, and only then, can they be lost forever.
This line of thought brings us to a subject, a very sensitive one, that of deafness.
Can people who are dear remain cheerful when they are locked out of so many pleasant experiences?
The time has come when those people whose hearing is not good (or is completely gone) can take part in conversations intelligently, and without making themselves the subject of criticism.
--The Book News Monthly, Vol. 33
