and the rooming-house landlady isncoarse and snoopy. Bereft, Emmelinenturns to the only obvious, easy sourcenof comfort—a supervisor in the mill.nAt this point Ms. Rossner temporarilynabandons her religious theme innfavor of the tried-and-true combinationnof the country innocent and the dastardlynrake. A pregnant, disgracednEmmeline is banished, and the implicationnis that the supervisor suffers onlyna little censure and embarrassment, thusnproviding a sop for any feminists whonhappen to pick up the book. Emmeline,nliving with her aunt, reluctantly givesnup her baby without ever having seennit, but she fantasizes, even deludes herselfninto believing, that she gave birthnto a daughter.nEmmeline finally returns home undernthe pretext of ill health, and her familynis none the wiser. She wants desperatelynto unburden herself to her mother, butnsomehow cannot; she simply abandonsnthe idea of confiding in the pastor ofnwhom she once thought so highly. Herninability to share the single most importantnevent in her life turns Emmelineninto a silent woman, disillusionednand fending off would-be suitors as thenyears drift past. She simply watches,nrather than lives, life in the rusticnNew England countryside until thenarrival of a young railroad builder namednMatthew Gurney.nWhile her father takes an instant dislikento Matthew, Emmeline feels annimmediate fascination for him, and fornthe second time Ms. Rossner takes upna romantic theme. Emmeline eventuallynbecomes Mrs. Gurney, and finally Ms.nRossner is ready to pull her two themesntogether. The deathwatch for Emmeline’snmother brings Aunt Hannah,nwho is routinely introduced to Matthewnand given the news of the recent marriage.nAs she—recognizing his surnamenand, horrified at the possibility—questionsnhim closely, Emmeline quicklyncomprehends, then flees to attemptnsuicide by drowning. To her family’sndismay, she survives, only to find thatnMatthew is gone and she is—forever-n.,x<^nxVC’niV^’nFive Special Books on IssuesnThat Shape Current Debate in AmericanThe Family: America’s Hope.nSpeeches from a Rockford Institutenconference which analyzedncultural forces operating to thendetriment of the family and suggestednthe means for counteractingnthem. Cliapters by MichaelnNovak, James Hitchcock, JohnnHoward, Harold O.J. Brown, ArchbishopnNicholas T. Elko, Harold M.nVoth, Mayer Eisenstein, M.D.,nJoe J. Christensen and LeopoldnTyrmand.nRegular price $4.00nDiscount price $2.00nThe Alternative Media: DismantlingnTwo Centuries of Progress bynFrancis M. Watson, Jr. An in-depthnstudy of the origins and developmentnof the alternative press, anninfluential force in our culturenwhich is largely unrecognized.nRegular price $5.00nDiscount price $2.50nA New Message by Jackson Pemberton.nA look at how the philosophynenunciated by the statesmennwho founded our nation appliesnto contemporary issues.nRegular price $1.50nDiscount price $1.00nCorporate Responsibility. A collectionnof speeches presented at anRockford Institute seminar examiningndemands made under thenbanner of corporate responsibilitynby groups whose major goals arenscarcely compatible with thencapitalistic system. Yale Brozen,nAdmiral William C. Mott, LeopoldnTyrmand, Jeffrey St. John, BarbaranShenfield and John Howard.nRegular price $1.50nDiscount price $1.00nThe Media Shangri-la by LeopoldnTyrmand. Examines the origins ofnfreedom of the press in America,nthe rise of the “media” to theirnpresent position of unrivalednpower and the divorce of “facts”nfrom “values” in journalism, leadingnto the rejection of norms ofnconduct and the destabilization ofnsocial institutions.nRegular price $1.50nDiscount price $1.00nTo order, use the adjacent post card, or send checknor money order to: The Rockford Institute, 934 N.nMain St., Rockford, IL 61103.nnnMay/June 1981n