understanding of history is impossible without the
philosophic and the critical faculties, and, above all, a
disinterested love of truth. Woman colors events according
as passion or sentiment sways her. The real historian must
totally efface both himself and his bias; and this, woman,
of her nature, is incapable of doing....

There remain to her the drama, poetry, and the novel. In
dramatic art, no woman has produced anything of lasting
note, the reason being that the dramatist must, perforce, be
without egotism and be capable of detaching the Ego from the
action of the play--a thing impossible in woman.

In poetry this critic allows to woman but "the shadow of a name"; for few
women, he argues, have written verse that endured. "The principal defect
she evinces in poetry," he says, "is a lack of artistic execution."
Woman's best work, he thinks, has been done in romance, though he refuses
to class any woman with the master-novelists. Even this small credit he
awards grudgingly and carpingly. He cannot ignore success, but he tries to
belittle it.

Apart from the fact that they may indulge in solecism and
anachronism without being severely called to task by the
critics, their composition is faulty. Even Georges Sand was
not above suspicion. There is palpable in their novels an
incoherent notion of logical plot, while their imagination
is subjected to no salutary discipline. Their work lacks
vigor, and in its weakness, not an unattractive quality in
woman herself, there is something commonplace that is not
redeemed by elegance. Above all, woman's temperament recoils
from a depiction of the stern reality of life.... She has no
sense of proportion, and for her the beautiful and the
pretty are interchangeable terms.

RACE SUICIDE MAY PROVE A BLESSING.

Welfare of the Offspring Is Much More
Important Than Their Number, Says
This Cincinnati Professor.

Dr. Charles A.L. Reed, of the University of Cincinnati, has published an
address on "The American Family," in which he makes this strong statement:
"We see in a declining birth-rate only a natural and evolutional
adjustment of race to environment--an adjustment that insures rather than
menaces the perpetuation of our kind under favoring conditions." Thus he
argues that "race suicide" may prove a blessing, since, as a matter of
fact, it implies an intelligent regard for t