Bobbins of Belgium / A book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages

An absorbingly interesting narrative of personal experience by the only woman member of the Relief Commission, who tells in moving language the story of the unbreakable spirit sustaining the Belgians and the noble service the Belgian women have rendered and inspired in a land made desolate by war.

Introduction by HERBERT C. HOOVER,

Chairman, Commission for Relief in Belgium

To quote from Mr. Hoover’s own foreword: “The soul of Belgium received a grievous wound, but the women of Belgium are staunching the flow, sustaining and leading this stricken nation to greater strength and greater life. We of the Relief have been proud of the privilege to place the tools in the hands of these women and have watched their skilful use and their improvement in method with hourly admiration.... Mrs. Kellogg has done more than record in simple terms passing impressions of the varied facts of the work of these women, for she spent months in loving sympathy with them. We offer her little book as our, and Mrs. Kellogg’s tribute in admiration of them and the inspiration which they have contributed to this whole organization.”

“So impressed was Mrs. Kellogg by the greatness and value of what the Belgian women are doing to help save the Belgian people that she has written this book, in which each chapter describes some phase or tells some incident of what she saw. The simplicity with which she writes makes the wonderful story of the devotion, the unstinted service, the utter self-abnegation with which many thousands of Belgian women are giving themselves completely to this work stand out all the more grandly.”—Times, New York.

“Among the thousands of books that have been written on the war, in this country and abroad, the pen of a woman has given us the truest portrayal of the real heart of a heart-broken people.”—Constitution, Atlanta, Ga.

“The pages brim with information and with profoundest pathos. As you read some of them you will feel a lump in your throat.”—Knickerbocker Press, Albany, N. Y.

“It is a book of tears, heart-throbs, and of devotion.... We do not think that anyone who reads it will regret sending a son to redress the wrongs of humanity.”—Inquirer, Philadelphia, Pa.

“The farther you read the more you will wish to read, so great is the charm, so intense the interest.”—Eastern Argus, Portland, Me.

“It is full of the kind of stuff that makes us proud of the part played by Americans in the work of saving Belgium from famine during the long, sad months that Germany had its iron heel on this stricken land.”—Evening Star, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

“The only American woman member of that Commission wrote the book—Mrs. Charlotte Kellogg—after spending eight months on Belgian soil; and her strong sympathy, her unfailing appreciation, intensify the literary charm of its pages. Learning how these women have labored, in their mothering of smitten millions, we get from this book side-lights upon the effects of the war.”—Richmond Times Despatch.

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