PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
"""Within Prison Walls should be read by everyone interested in the proper study of mankind. It is one of the most humanizing books ever written."" -Frank Marshall White, The Outlook ""This unique record-vivid, detailed, telling what he ate and smelled and thought, recounting how he washed and slept and saddened-creates for the reader the very atmosphere of the prison. Mr. Osborne conveys to the penitentiary novice the penitentiary feel."" -The New York Times ""A human document full of pathos and humor, of unusual revelations, and suggestive of needed improvements. A volume every citizen should read."" -The Nation ""His book . . . is one that all persons interested in prison reform should read. From cover to cover it is apparent that Mr. Osborne has taken pains to be fair toward the officials, but his sympathies are undeniably with the convicts."" -The Los Angeles Times ""Osborne's book shows a man who simply cannot regard prisoners through the cold medium of abstract theory. They are human beings to him-men."" -Frank Tanenbaum, The Masses ""Some have eulogized Osborne for conducting his Tom Brown experiment. Some have ridiculed, and some have reviled. What few seem to realize is that, regardless of results, Thomas Mott Osborne was probably the only man who could have conducted it at all . . . he did not act Tom Brown. He was Tom Brown."" -Rudolph W. Chamberlain, There is No Truce: A Life of Thomas Mott Osborne ""Mr. Osborne is no dilettante. Nowhere is the book sentimental, but in parts it is deeply emotional. The experience is too extraordinary to spoil by nibbling quotations."" -Mary Alden Hopkins, The Publishers' Weekly"
