n a most flourishing condition,
although it has never had a constitution or by-laws to hold it
together,--nothing but the single bond of philanthropy. At first
it had not even a name. But outsiders began to call its members
'the Americans,' because they adopted American improvements in
their homes. The appellation was accepted by the club as an
honorable title, and from that time it formally called itself the
"American Club."

The Austrian code, in its treatment of women, is unsurpassed in
contradictions. Women, for example, may testify in criminal
actions, but they may not be witnesses to the simplest legal
document. There are many absurdities of this sort in the existing
law which were unknown in the ancient code of independent Bohemia,
which was more liberal in its treatment of women. Divorce exists,
but divorced persons cannot marry again. Bohemia being a part of
Austria, women vote in the same way as has already been mentioned
in what was said of the latter country. But at Prague, however,
women do not vote, the capital still retaining its old laws on this
subject.

Concerning the other grand division of the empire of the Hapsburgs,
Hungary, much the same may be said as of Bohemia. It is only within
the last forty years that Hungary has striven to attain to the
level of occidental civilization and culture, so that the question
of the amelioration of women's condition is of very recent origin
in that country. Rose Revai, of Budapest, writes:

Hungarian legislators have always treated us favorably in all
matters pertaining to the family, marriage and inheritance. By
the mere act of marriage we attain our majority and are
emancipated from tutelage. As heirs, our interests are not
forgotten, and as widows, we have the control over our own
children. In business and trade we enjoy equal rights with men.
And Hungarian women have not been slow to take advantage of these
privileges, as is shown by those of our sex who occupy worthy
positions in literature, art, commerce, industry, the theater and
the school-room.

Although the Hungarian universities are still closed against women,
there are many girls' industrial and normal schools and colleges.
The impetus given to female education in Hungary is chiefly
due to the late Baron Joseph Eoetvoes, the savant, poet and
philanthropist, who was minister of public instruction in 1867.
Women a