ession.[59]

As has been before stated, out of the large number of criticisms which I
have at hand, the men, generally, and seemingly without appreciation of
its logical results, approve of what Dr. Clarke has said; the women of
largest experience condemn, denying his premises, disproving his
clinical evidence by adding other facts, and protesting against his
conclusions.

The criticisms and the criticisms on criticisms would make already quite
a volume, from which perhaps the principal lesson learned would be the
correctness of Talleyrand's idea of the use of language, as many of them
consist chiefly in the assertion that statements of the book which
appeared perfectly clear to one mind as having a certain meaning, had in
reality not that meaning at all; and the criticisms on adverse
criticisms are apt to assert that Dr. Clarke has been accused of
dishonesty by the previous critic, when the author is quite sure that no
such accusation was expressed or intended. Most of the points made in
the criticisms have been emphasized here.

The importance of the subject justifies the interest excited, and the
final effect must be good. One result is marked; from all sections of
the country, women heretofore knowing each other only by reputation, or
not at all, are being bound together by a common interest in a sense
never before known, and unknown girls in Western colleges are begging of
women to plead for them that they be not deprived of their places. The
result need not be feared. The irresistible force of the world movement
cannot be permanently checked. "The stars in their courses fought
against Sisera," and we would answer the girls with the words of Santa
Theresa:

"Let nothing disturb thee,
Nothing affright thee;
All things are passing--
God never changeth;
Patient endurance
Attaineth to all things,"

if we did not know that there is something higher, even, than patient
endurance, and so we say to them, with Goethe, instead:

"Here Eyes do regard you
In eternity's stillness,
Here is all fulness,
Ye brave, to reward you;
Work and despair not."

ANNA C. BRACKETT.

New York City.

FOOTNOTES:

[54] The statistics of the Bureau of Education, circulars 3 and 5, show
that there are at present in the United States no less than forty-six
colleges open to both sexes; and as we go to press, word comes that the
London University, Queen's College, Belfast, and Owen's Col