The Daily Bulletin

SOME WOMEN'S WORK.

English women in this generation have done some rather remarkable work, it must be confessed. Mrs. Leonowens, Catharine Macquoid. Lady Brassey and Lady Anne Blunt have all acquired a reputation for adventurous travel, together with a number of others. In political economy Mrs. Fawcett has made an enviable name: so has Mrs. Green in history: and so has Miss Martineau in both history. and political economy. In philosophical thought Frances Power Cobbe has achieved distinction. Mrs. Jameson, Lady Eastlake, Mrs. Haweis and Lydia Scott are only a few of the names that are widely known in the realm of art criticism, as Elizabeth Thompson of the "Roll Call" and Kate Greenaway are but two instances of a large number who have used their pencil and brush acceptably in art itself. Only three or four men of England have excelled the work of George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Amelia B. Edwards, Anne Thackeray and Miss Yonge in the writing of novels; the last through the youth of her readers, having an especially wide influence. And if the poems of Adelaide Procter, Jean Ingelow and Mrs. Craik have not reached the very topmost intellectual heights, Mrs. Browning's have, and so have a few of George Eliot's, and they have, at any rate, succeeded in touching and warming the hearts of those that have been and always will be inaccessible to their so-called superiors.

Women who have been able to accomplish so much with crippled means and methods of education and habit have a right to expect that their successors, to whom the royal paths have at last been opened, shall accomplish a great deal more.

-[Harper's Bazar.