q., Mrs. Ann Maria Haslam
(Dublin), Frederick Hill, esq., Mrs. John Hollond, Mrs. Frank
Morrison, C. H. Hopwood, esq., Q. C., M. P., Mrs. John Hullah,
Coleridge Kennard, esq., M. P., Mrs. Margaret Bright Lucas, Mrs. E.
M. Lynch, Robert Main, esq., Mrs. Laura Pochin McLaren, Mrs. Eva
Mueller McLaren (Bradford), Mrs. Priscilla Bright McLaren
(Edinburgh), Miss Henrietta Mueller, Frederick Pennington, esq., M.
P., Mrs. F. Pennington, Miss Reeves, Mrs. Saville, Miss Lillie
Stacpole, Rev. S. A. Steinthal (Manchester), J. S. Symon, esq.,
Miss Helen Taylor, Sir Richard Temple, G. C. S. I.; J. P.
Thomasson, esq., M. P., Mrs. Katherine Lucas Thomasson (Bolton),
Miss Isabella M. Tod (Belfast), Miss Williams, William Woodall,
esq. M. P. _Secretary_, Miss Florence Balgarnie. _Assistant
Secretary_, Miss Torrance. _Organizing Agent_, Miss Moore.
_Treasurer_, Mrs. Laura Pochin McLaren. _Office_, 29 Parliament
street, London S. W.

CHAPTER LVII.

CONTINENTAL EUROPE.[566]

BY THEODORE STANTON.

If you would know the political and moral status of a
people, demand what place its women occupy.--[L. AIME
MARTIN.

There is nothing, I think, which marks more decidedly the
character of men or of nations, than the manner in which
they treat women.--[HERDER.

The Woman Question in the Back-ground--In France the Agitation
Dates from the Upheaval of 1789--International Women's Rights
Convention in Paris, 1878--Mlle. Hubertine Auclert Leads the
Demand for Suffrage--Agitation began in Italy with the
Kingdom--Concepcion Arenal in Spain--Coeducation in
Portugal--Germany: Leipsic and Berlin--Austria in Advance of
Germany--Caroline Svetla of Bohemia--Austria Unsurpassed in
contradictions--Marriage Emancipates from Tutelage in
Hungary--Dr. Henrietta Jacobs of Holland--Dr. Isala van Diest of
Belgium--In Switzerland the Catholic Cantons Lag Behind--Marie
Goegg, the Leader--Sweden Stands First--Universities Open to
Women in Norway--Associations in Denmark--Liberality of Russia
toward Women--Poland--The Orient--Turkey--Jewish Wives--The Greek
Woman in Turkey--The Greek Woman in Greece--An Unique
Episode--Woman's Rights in the American Sense not known.

The reader of the preceding pages will be sorely disappointed if he
expects to find in this brief chapter a similar record of progress
and reform. If, howeve