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White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 373, 18 July 1926, Page 5

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“\gncs E. Slack—A Woman’s Work in Emu* Continents,” b> Aelfreda Tillyard. Publisher, VV. Heffer, Cambridge, England. Price 3/»> or 7/H, postage not included. Miss Agnes Slack, who is a sister of the late Sir John Bamford-Slack, M.P., has worked as Poor Law Guardian, is a member of the Executive Committee of the National Wo men’s Liberal Federation, the World League Against Alcoholism, the National Women’s Free Church Council. and has given her help to many Women's Movements, but Temperance is her life work. She is Presi-

dent of the National British Women's Temperance Association, and one of the two Hon. Secs, of the World’s W.C.T.U. She has travelled 200,t100 miles to give her message. She has had many adventures, of which accounts are given in this hook. She has been lost on the Canadian prairie, garlanded with (lowers in India, slung from a basket across raging waves on the South African coast, she has spoken to 10,00(1 people at Chatauquu, U.S.A., crawled on hands and knees to enter Kaffir and Lapp huts. This book gives a vivid account of an intensely interesting and earnest life. Lady Cecilia Roberts lias written the preface.