A Woman's Thoughts About Women

These "Thoughts" are put together in quite an attractive form, and are replete with good sense and calm reflection. Without saying anything marvelously original, — an achievement, by the way, almost impossible upon this much-be-written subject, — the author has arranged a series of chapters which amply repay perusal, and which place before the reader in tangible and debatable propositions many of the ideas which have, hitherto, probably only floated across his mind at intervals. Somewhat conservative in tone, she abjures all sympathy with the ultra advocates of woman's rights, while at the same time, as in the chapter entitled Lost Women," and in allusions scattered throughout the volume, she offers several sensible and practical suggestions to those who wish to open a wider sphere of action and a more generous charity to the poorer and more neglected portion of the sex. The genial sympathy with humanity which pervades the other works of the author is equally apparent in this healthful and kindly volume, and a simple diction, and a delicate handling of each topic as it arises, add their charm to the more solid interest which the subject itself awakens at the present time.