th
the usual amount of good and bad speaking and debating, strong
and feeble resolutions, fair and unfair reporting--but, with all
its faults, an improvement on the general run of conventions
called by the stronger sex. We say this not in a spirit of
boasting, but with a heart overflowing with pity for the "men of
the period." The chief speakers were Paulina Wright Davis,
Isabella Beecher Hooker, Theodore Tilton, Francis D. Moulton,
Rev. Phebe Hanaford, Lillie Devereux Blake, Elizabeth R.
Churchill, the Hon. Mr. Stillman, of Rhode Island; and the editor
and proprietor of _The Revolution_. The occasion was enlivened
with the stirring songs of the Hutchinsons, and a reading by Mrs.
Sarah Fisher Ames, the distinguished artist who moulded the bust
of Abraham Lincoln which now adorns the rooms of the Union
League.

The audience throughout the sittings of the Convention was large,
fashionable, and as enthusiastic as the state of the weather
would permit. From the numbers of _The Revolution_ and John
Stuart Mill's new work sold at the door, it is evident that much
interest was roused on the question. We can say truly that we
never received a more quiet and respectful hearing; and, from
many private conversations with ladies and gentlemen of
influence, we feel assured that we have done much by our
gatherings in Saratoga and Newport to awaken thought among a new
class of people. The _ennui_ and utter vacuity of a life of mere
pleasure is fast urging fashionable women to something better,
and, when they do awake to the magnitude and far-reaching
consequences of woman's enfranchisement, they will be the most
enthusiastic workers for its accomplishment.

E. C. S.

The Fourth of July this year was celebrated for the first time by
members of the Woman Suffrage Association, in a beautiful grove in
Westchester County. Edwin A. Studwell of Brooklyn made all the
necessary arrangements. Speeches were made by Judge E. D. Culver, Mrs.
Stanton, and Miss Anthony. The Woman Suffrage meetings at the Bureau
were crowded every week. October 7th there was an unusually large
attendance, to discuss the coming Industrial Congress at Berlin. The
following letter to the Berlin Congress was read and adopted:

NATIONAL WOMAN