reformers and distinguished
members of the press and bar. There was Elizur Wright whose name
is a household word in many homes as translator of La Fontaine's
fables for the children. Beside him sat the well-known Parker
Pillsbury and his nephew, a promising young lawyer in Boston. At
one end of the table sat Mr. Bird with Mrs. Stanton on his right
and Miss Anthony on his left. At the other end sat Frank Sanborn
with Mrs. Robinson (wife of "Warrington") on his right. On either
side sat Judge Adam Thayer of Worcester, Charles Field, Williard
Phillips of Salem, Colonel Henry Walker of Boston, Mr. Ernst of
the Boston _Advertiser_, and Judge Henry Fox of Taunton. The
condition of Russia and the Conkling imbroglio in New York; the
new version of the Testament and the reason why German Liberals,
transplanted to this soil, immediately become conservative and
exclusive, were all considered. Carl Schurz, with his narrow
ideas of woman's sphere and education, was mentioned by way of
example. In reply to the question how the Suffrage Association
felt in regard to Conkling's reelection. Mrs. Robinson said:

That the leaders, who are students of politics were unitedly
against him. Their only hope is in the destruction of the
Republican party, which is too old and corrupt to take up
any new reform.

Frank Sanborn, fresh from the perusal of the New Testament, asked
if women could find any special consolation in the Revised
Version regarding everlasting punishment. Mrs. Stanton replied:

Certainly, as we are supposed to have brought "original sin"
into the world with its fearful forebodings of eternal
punishment, any modification of Hades in fact or name, for
the _men_ of the race, the innocent victims of our
disobedience, fills us with satisfaction.

From the club the ladies hastened to the beautiful residence of
Mrs. Fenno Tudor, fronting Boston Common, where hundreds of
friends had already gathered to do honor to the noble woman so
ready to identify herself with the unpopular reforms of her day.
Among the many beautiful works of art, a chief attraction was the
picture of the grand-mother of Parnell, the Irish agitator, by
Gilbert Stuart. The house was fragrant with flowers, and the
unassuming manners of