“Miss Eastman, it will be remembered, took the prize of one thousand
dollars offered several years ago by this house. The heroine of the
present book is the daughter of a clergyman, ‘a girl who was neither
all good nor all bad, but partly the one and partly the other’; and the
narrative of her trials and experiences is intended as a guide and help
to other girls who have those of the same kind to contend with, and
to impress upon them the lesson that ‘the only road to happiness lies
through the land of goodness.’”—_N. E. Journal of Education._