eed! The German girl might, with profit, go more deeply into
the wonderful mysteries of science, just as her American sister is
supposed to do; counterbalance her somewhat too poetical tendencies by
the severer pursuit of mathematics, and find delight in the beauties of
Latin and Greek authors, if such should be her sincere desire. Nor can I
see any objection to the pursuit of medical, and other higher
intellectual studies, by the few whose enthusiasm and natural gifts fit
them for it.

All this the German woman will safely accomplish, if she retains the
simplicity of her manners and tastes, a quiet, undisturbed mind during
the years of early youth, the while not forgetting to preserve the
priceless gift of health.

That this desirable consummation will be better and more safely reached
by an adequate separate education, which can take into account woman's
peculiar physical organization when necessary, rather than by
co-education, no one, I think, can predict. Thus far, the idea of
co-education has not penetrated the German brain, and the German woman
is too shy and modest to think of downright, decided competition with
man.

Whether the radical changes in education now progressing in this
country, and still in the future for Germany, will yield valuable fruit,
and conduce to better the condition of women, it seems to me, experiment
rather than theory, must show.

I am with sincere respect, yours truly,

MRS. OGDEN N. ROOD.

341 East 15th Street, N. Y.

SEX IN EDUCATION.

There has recently appeared a collection of essays on the subject of
girls' education, which, for the reason that it has excited so much
attention, cannot here be passed by without special notice. It is seldom
that any book arouses so much criticism, and, withal, so much earnest
opposition as this has provoked, and seldom do the newspapers so
generously open their columns to discussions so extended on the merits
and demerits of any publication. The author is a physician of high
repute in the city of Boston, Dr. E. H. Clarke. With regard to the
criticisms on it, the general observation may be made, that where the
writer is a man, praise is more generally bestowed than in those cases
where a woman is the author, though there are very marked exceptions,
the bitterest criticism of a large number in my possession being written
by a man. Women, from their stand-point of women, very generally unite
in disagreeing with its premises, and from